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Labour Candidate for Bristol East
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Kerry McCarthy
Labour Candidate for Bristol East
A Future Fair for All
My blog = my rules!
As Monica says in Friends, "rules are good, rules help control the fun!"
First: if you're after a detailed response, please email or write to me. If you're a constituent (or perhaps a very special case), I'll respond; if you're not, you'll have to contact your own MP. Ditto if you want to introduce a subject which bears no relevance to my original post.
Second: I don't have a problem with trenchant criticism of me or the Government, or vociferously expressed opinions, but if I regard your comments as offensive I won't allow them to appear. (I don't like having to moderate comments, but have reluctantly come to the conclusion that people cannot be relied upon not to abuse my good nature!)
First: if you're after a detailed response, please email or write to me. If you're a constituent (or perhaps a very special case), I'll respond; if you're not, you'll have to contact your own MP. Ditto if you want to introduce a subject which bears no relevance to my original post.
Second: I don't have a problem with trenchant criticism of me or the Government, or vociferously expressed opinions, but if I regard your comments as offensive I won't allow them to appear. (I don't like having to moderate comments, but have reluctantly come to the conclusion that people cannot be relied upon not to abuse my good nature!)
Thirdly: I might just randomly delete comments from certain people because I'm getting thoroughly fed up with them and want them to go away and annoy someone else for a while. You know who you are.
That's all - although I reserve the right to create new rules as and when I feel like it. My blog = my rules!From under the floorboards
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15 comments:
Congratulations!
Tell me, are you getting paid for this from your £10,000 additional communications allowance, and if so, how much? Assuming that your associated website has hosting costs, naturally enough, but by using the blogger platform, you have no blogging costs per se.
And, what would it cost you (out of your own resources) to be as independent as some of your colleagues who have decided to forgo the delights of toeing the line? And would that freedom be valuable to you?
The Penguin
You're referring I assume to the Paul Flynn story that has been doing the rounds this week, even though it's 18 months old.
The main website is publicly-funded, and approved by the Fees Office.
I don't claim anything from the CA for this blog - it doesn't cost anything to run - and it's entirely up to me what I say on it. Which is why I set it up. I don't give much thought at all to what the whips would think, but I do often despair of the likelihood of having an intelligent debate on here, without being deliberately misconstrued by other bloggers or the media, and that often means I don't post on some topics which I would otherwise quite like to talk about.
The award, by the way, was for both - i.e. the website and blog. Apparently I am regarded as being the best MP in the UK at engaging with the public. Which I shall remind you of at regular intervals!
Apparently I am regarded as being the best MP in the UK at engaging with the public.
In fairness, I think this is probably the case. You seem to be prepared to seriously debate the issues.
I can't say, however, that you were up against the strongest opposition for this award.....
Well Done You !
This year's category winners, selected by an independent panel of political commentators from across the media, were dominated by MPs from the Labour party.
Thats fine, Hmmm yep..... okay... Good
I thought someone might bring that up. I can only remember two of the six judges - one was Danny Finkelstein from the Times, the other was from the Spectator. Tories and Lib Dems were shortlisted, but didn't win - let's face it, we're just that bit better than them!
Havent you read 1984 and what Orwell says about website awards?
Typical Nu-Labour rigging the judging panel for a website award just so you can come on here and mention it.
Its outrageous, no wander Gordon Brown sold all our gold and ruined everything!
come on kerry.post what you would really like to discuss.
you want to engage with the public. this is an excellent opportunity to do so........
only don't expect everyone to agree with you.
your share of the vote is roughly 1/3.so it is you who is in the minority.same for the tories.
to the proles mps' seem aloof and to live in a bubble.
thinking that they are special.that they know best.well oddly enough in a country of 60 million+ there are people with higher iqs' and more experience in certain sectors.......
so.say what you want.most of us are adults and would like to be treated as such.
At least your blog is not over run by the tossers who pollute comments in the Nulabourgraph making any sensible debate impossible. And, full marks, unlike many, you do engage in the debate yourself rather than just posting and ignoring.
A further award you have been given is a guest appearance (!) on Old Holborn's place, an honour not lightly bestowed.
The Penguin
Ah yes. Awards season is upon us.
You might've done well in namby-pamby Westminster but it'll be interesting to see how you get on in the boiling cauldron of competition here in Bristol ...
Kerry, well done. I do agree that you enagage well beyond the call of duty. There is probably not too much we will agree on and some of your answers do not address the point sometimes. However it cannot be too comfortable being criticised or downright hostility.
Well done again and 6 posts in a row without mentioning the smoking ban. ;)
I do find this blog useful. Just occasionally, I need reminding of why I left the Labour Party and this provides it.
Continually conflating anti-immigration views with racism is just so cute.
For the record, I don't believe you should be strung up from a lamp-post. This archaic punishment for traitors has no place in a civilised elective dictatorship.
I'd have you wearing an orange jumpsuit and doing useful community work. Datatagged, naturally.
Not orange, please anything but orange.
I reckon we could 'turn' Kerry to the libertarian cause.
Let's get OH to take her out for dinner. He is tall, handsome (in a V mask or not) and has - oh, such a way with words. I will put a tenner in to the pot to fund said dinner date.
Come on Kerry, what do you say?
Does he know any good vegan restaurants?
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