greg pope

garinda said:
Are you actually upset with the treatment you received from Greg Pope, or the fact that the answers you were seeking didn't go the way you'd have liked them too?

By the way, he is a member on here and does post, so he may reply himself to your grievances.
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no its not the ansews themselves its just that he already knew (as his secretary told me ) of the impact of his letter i just wish he would have told me at the time because i did tell him that i was scared to 'annoy' the council by contacting them via my mp and did indicate that i didnt want a fruitless letter sent. by the way thanks for your kind offer tinkerbelle but i think i will leave my issue for now at least
 
skippy said:
no its not the ansews themselves its just that he already knew (as his secretary told me ) of the impact of his letter i just wish he would have told me at the time because i did tell him that i was scared to 'annoy' the council by contacting them via my mp and did indicate that i didnt want a fruitless letter sent. by the way thanks for your kind offer tinkerbelle but i think i will leave my issue for now at least
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Again without knowing what on earth your problem is, it's difficult.

If he wrote a letter for you, and explained that it wouldn't do any good in this instance, for reasons he and his staff already knew, I think you were lucky he tried for you, and explained the limitations.

If I was your MP, I would have explained that to you, as nicely as possible, and not written a letter if it was going to be pointless, and then used my time to give help to someone who I could make a difference for.
 
skippy said:
hi i was just curious to see what others thought of our mp . i went to see him recently and he wrote a letter on my behalf after i had given a load of details about my issue. from his response it seemed he must have known what the reply would be but conveniently he wrote the letter anyway. ( to make it seem he had done something i guess) ii found him lacking substance and if a someone with more personality came to oust him i would vote regardless of the party. wat are others experiences
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Skippy there is a gentleman somewhere near Rome with a similar name, for what it's worth you may as well ask him as British Member of Parliament.:) This is not a personal attack on Mr Greg Pope who I think under his limited powers does a sterling job.
 
Neil said:
Rindy that should be Ken Hargreaves MBE.

I have never spoken with Greg Pope so I can't comment on him.
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I don't believe in the honours system, hence the lack of letters.;)

It's still ok for you to bow to me....as you leave, humbly, backwards, from my presence.:D
 
Julie wrote to him when she was trying(and failing) to get a dentist appointment whislt covered under her maternity exemption cert. she was sorted within a couple of weeks and teh treatment done before it ran out.

I disagree with his stance on the war(and emailed to tell him so) and particularly for his comment that he did his own thing rather than what his constituency wanted. Good and bad IMHO
 
I have never spoken to Greg Pope face to face but I have 'spoken' to him on AccyWeb and corresponded with him and found him to be interested in the issues I brought up, sensible in his responses and intelligent enough to know whether he could make a difference in overall policies or not.

In regards to one issue I found his response and reaction to be particularly well thought out, considering aspects which had not actually crossed my mind at the time but once brought up I could see why he chose to act as he did for the benefit of the greater good and consideration of other people.

Without knowing what the problem was which you took to him it's impossible to know whether his actions were commendable or not. If he already knew that he was unlikely to be able to change the outcome of a situation the fact that he was willing to get involved at all I would regard as commendable. Sometimes even an MP cannot change things to benefit one person if that in turn would cause problems for more others. It's difficult to know if that was the case here without actually knowing the situation.

 
entwisi said:
I disagree with his stance on the war(and emailed to tell him so) and particularly for his comment that he did his own thing rather than what his constituency wanted. Good and bad IMHO
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I didn't care what his vote was to be honest.. just his self centered and stuff the constituants bit.... its somehting that has stuck and seeing him in the paper every other week after that in some far off country really didn't endear himself to me... nice job eh... travel the world be an mp...

maybe if he actualy did soemhting for hyndburn that we could see was good and made a difference... i daresay he does good all over the place.... what i mean is somehting good everyone can see... cus all i seem to see is reports from around the world...
 
mick said:
Neil you have spoken to him hehe
He is a member of accyweb:D
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There is speak and their is speak. You can't tell what someone is really like until you have had face to face dealings with them.
 
Well, as you can imagine I am going to defend Greg. I find him to be a very hard working person who spends as much time in his constituency as he does in parliament. He stands up for what he believes and I think that's quite probably why he hasn't risen through the Labour ranks.

As for his stance on the war - yes, he voted for it and yes, on the face of things you can argue that he shouldn't have done that if his constituency appeared to want the opposite, however, his constituents were working off information that they were reading in the national newspapers, they were not working from the official information that MPs were receiving. He was in the most informed position and he voted for it - as did David Cameron and the majority of both Labour and Conservative MPs.

I know people disagree with the war and think that the troops should be pulled out but once we've made the mess I do think we should be around to clear it up. Also, I wish people would stop beating Labour up for taking us to war when David Cameron has stated on more than one occassion that he would have done precisely the same thing himself based on the information that they had at the time.
 
KIPAX said:
maybe if he actualy did soemhting for hyndburn that we could see was good and made a difference
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I agree with that KIPAX.

Can anyone list some useful things he has done for Hyndburn and not just individuals that will make me want to vote for him next time (seeing as Ken no longer stands ;) )
 
Gayle said:
As for his stance on the war - yes, he voted for it and yes, on the face of things you can argue that he shouldn't have done that if his constituency appeared to want the opposite, however, his constituents were working off information that they were reading in the national newspapers, they were not working from the official information that MPs were receiving. He was in the most informed position and he voted for it -
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so it was a case of stuff the people of hyndburn.. i know better.... well thats not the best case of defending someone I have ever seen :)


Gayle said:
I know people disagree with the war and think that the troops should be pulled out but once we've made the mess I do think
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I dont have a thought on it either way.. I didn't care what he voted for... it was the fact that he went against his constituants that erks me
 
Gayle said:
his constituents were working off information that they were reading in the national newspapers, they were not working from the official information that MPs were receiving. He was in the most informed position and he voted for it - as did David Cameron and the majority of both Labour and Conservative MPs.
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Yes, and the spin put out by this government was that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction. A claim which turned out to be totally untrue. If Greg Pope had a conscience, he would apologise to his constituents for voting to take this country to war under false pretences.

Secondly, should we just meekly accept any decision that the government takes, whether we agree with it or not, because they're in "the most informed position"? What a strange view of democracy!
 
but clearly the fact that they were told that he had WMDs and the papers were all reporting Hans Blicks view that he hadn't suggests that actually 'we' were the better informed.
 
from the front page of www.gregpope.co.uk

I aim to represent all the people of in my constituency regardless of their politics, race or religion
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Really? how can he have that AND say he knows the constituants want one thing but he is going to do what HE feels is right instead... and as now pointed out the irony being he was wrong and the constituants where right..
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The words "face" and "two" spring to mind.
 
Neil said:
Can anyone list some useful things he has done for Hyndburn and not just individuals that will make me want to vote for him next time (seeing as Ken no longer stands ;) )
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maybe theres no reply because there busy compiling a list....... hehe
 
When I was a child my parents knew I wanted a pony but they didn't get me one.

They also knew that we had nowhere to stable one and that I wouldn't have enough time to look after it, muck out, groom it ride it or even afford to stable it, feed it and the vets fees etc etc. So they did was they felt was best by not getting me a pony.

So maybe Greg Pope did what he felt was best for us in spite of us thinking/feeling/believing we wanted something else.
 
KIPAX said:
he voted for war on iraq.... i aint bothered accept for one thing... he was quoted in the paper as saying.... he knows its not what his constituants want but he had to go with what he felt was right...

How does anyone know what the constituents want? Nobody asked me. The majority may have agreed with him. Who knows?:p
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