Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Get your beefs with the system out of your system
Described as quick, simple and cathartic , this website describes itself as
the easy, safe way to share your front-line experience of public services for free. Just describe your own experience. You can also add what it should have been: "Wouldn't it be better if..."
As a former public sector worker, I felt a bit uncomfortable with this but most of the posts seems to be directed at public policy and the behaviour of bureaucratic departments rather than at individuals and there is encouragement to leave positive feedback too. The site is hosted by the ubiquitous My Society and according to the blurb, people's experiences are passed on to their "partners in Government, who will then look into them further"
Have a look at
Public experience.com
the easy, safe way to share your front-line experience of public services for free. Just describe your own experience. You can also add what it should have been: "Wouldn't it be better if..."
As a former public sector worker, I felt a bit uncomfortable with this but most of the posts seems to be directed at public policy and the behaviour of bureaucratic departments rather than at individuals and there is encouragement to leave positive feedback too. The site is hosted by the ubiquitous My Society and according to the blurb, people's experiences are passed on to their "partners in Government, who will then look into them further"
Have a look at
Public experience.com
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Permalink Reply by Hugh on
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All well and good. Not surprised to see My Society are involved.
But what will it mean if I add an observation on the site? There seems to be no intentionality other than to get if off your chest.
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Permalink Reply by Liz on
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Well the blurb suggests that this has been set up with government money and that the observations will be passed on to people within government who presumably will act on them.
However, like the election leaflet project I posted about earlier, I wonder whether this will have an impact. I guess if many many people use these sites, then they will.
After all FixMyStreet is growing in popularity and is becoming more well known and that took a while to get going.
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Permalink Reply by John McMullan on
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I've sent them an email asking if they'll do a 'policemyward' but have not heard back yet. Personally I have not written to my MP to moan in a while but am thinking about doing something over this expenses nonsense. The supposedly greedy people I work with have more integrity.
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Permalink Reply by Danzigger on
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The who have what? The shameless money grabbing of some of our MP's may be an embarrassment, but you can't compare it with the greed and lack of integrity of the city / financial services / big banking etc.
1) The sums taken by MP's are comparatively small
2) Having been rumbled, MP's, and those who govern the system that they have exploited, are looking to repay and reform.
In contrast:
1) City pay and bonuses are notoriously excessive
2) despite the obvious failures of the system, the damage caused and the massive bail-outs using public money, I haven't come across many instances of bankers/traders/hedge fund manages offering to repay money, nor have I heard of much enthusiasm for tougher regulation coming from within the industry. It displays a complete lack of integrity to accept public money when you have failed, while at the same time denying responsibility.
Moral equivalence doesn't come that cheap!
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Permalink Reply by John D on
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Wouldn't it be nice if, in the next election, we all agree not to vote for MPs who have been shown to have been abusing public funds ?
That would concentrate their minds :-)
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It would be a fine example of democracy in action. But I seriously worry that punishing MP's in this way will benefit the BNP. God help us all if that mob starts to to win seats in parliament!
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Permalink Reply by james walsh on
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I heard someone suggest a selection/de-selection vote by constituent party members.
Similar to a vote of confidence/no-confidence.
That way people could get rid of/keep the M.P. they are happy/not happy without the hassle and cost of a general election.
Those M.P.s who are innocent will have nothing to worry about will they ?
After all, Brown wasn't voted in. All it would take would be for an authority figure to champion this idea and get a groundswell of support for it. (Alan Stanton comes to mind)
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