Control, Alt(ernatives) Delete? Rebooting the Campaign to Change the World....

Stella Creasy MP

At 32% there has been no change in the number of people who believe that if people ‘like me’ get involved, they can change the way the country is run

Only 41% now say that in the event of an immediate general election they would be certain to vote compared to 48% who

said the same last year

Only 23% are satisfied with the way that MPs generally are doing their job and only 34% say the same about their own local MP

63% of the public say that if they are dissatisfied with political decisions they have a duty to do something about it

Hansard Audit of Political Engagement 2013

Only half the public (50%) have undertaken at least one of a list of 13 political activities in the last year

• 27% report voting in an election• 20% have donated money to a charity or campaign

organisation• Fewer than one in 10 people have created or signed either

an e-petition (9%) or paper petition (8%) or contacted an elected representative (8%).

However, 78% of the public claim they would be prepared to do one or more of a list of 13 political activities if they felt strongly about an issue.

The activities people are most likely to say they would do in the future are vote (42%) and contact an elected representative (41%)

2013 2014

And now on twitter and facebook….

Signals and Noise: March 27 to April 3 2014

• Provide cancer education in schools

• Government not listening to teachers opinions

• Please back surveillance reform• Justice on our roads APPG • Barclays Bank• Stand up for Education • Help Keep Cruelty History –

please register your details in support of the Hunting Act

• Threat to the 2004 Hunting Act

• End the arms trade with Israel• Please push forward the bill to

ban wild animals in circuses• Planned changes to copyright

law • Your chance to repeal the

gagging law• Why it is important to repeal

the gagging law • Please repeal the gagging law• This shouldn’t be controversial• Take action now

Your and my worst nightmare……..

Many into one….

• 1,700 new pieces of personal casework in last year

• 250 pieces of housing casework alone

• On average 140 live personal cases per week

• 2,500 pieces of policy casework already handled –another 2,167 to process!

• Consumer Rights legislation • Approx 2,500 emails per

week

• 5.5 members of staff- no unpaid staff

• Organised 300 volunteers in the 7days4stow project

• 5,000 recipients of weekly e-newsletter

• National sharkstoppers campaign

• Circular firing up squad• Spoken in 34 debates, tabled

37 questions and voted in 80% of all divisions

@jonwillchambers

@Fash_Rev, #TrevorLeighton,

#FashionRevolutionDay

a customer complaints desk....?• Specialise – don’t scattergun ! • Collaborate- don’t alienate so involve us in

planning not just execution....• Don’t brief us- we can read! • Ask more, not less - choices not just concerns • Make it easy to engage- send us the mailing list! • Do your homework – know what we can and can’t

do e.g. EDMs, PMBs, local councils...• Work with each other- don’t ask us to pick

between badgers, the NHS and bees!