AIBU to not know the correct way to address an MP in a letter/email?

[JetTail]

Out of curiosity, and also to ensure that I am not automatically 'cancelled' as some sort of ignoramus (this is relevant, as I'm about to question his nonsense about claiming all great epitomes of historical lunacy are being cancelled), I'm wondering how to address someone who signs off a letter with the following: Rt Hon Jimmy Bigballs CBE MP.

Do I write:

Dear Mr. Bigballs

Or

Dear Rt Hon Mr. Bigballs?

or

Dear Rt Hon Bigballs?

or

Something else?

Yours

The soon to be Dishonoured Nelly No-balls

This might be handy - not only does it have contact details for all MPs, it also says how to address them in correspondence members.parliament.uk/members/Commons

Personally, I would just write Dear Jimmy.

I'm not a fan of fancy titles/obsequious behaviour towards those in positions of power.

I would add that this has never stopped me from getting a reply.

@AlexaShutUp

Personally, I would just write Dear Jimmy.

I'm not a fan of fancy titles/obsequious behaviour towards those in positions of power.

Nor am I, but I also do not want to give him an excuse to dismiss my soon to be penned letter of disagreement as the rantings of an uneducated loon...

[quote Alltheprettyseahorses]This might be handy - not only does it have contact details for all MPs, it also says how to address them in correspondence members.parliament.uk/members/Commons[/quote]
Thank you! Will have a gander

[quote Alltheprettyseahorses]This might be handy - not only does it have contact details for all MPs, it also says how to address them in correspondence members.parliament.uk/members/Commons[/quote]
Very useful. My local one is to addressed as Sir .

At work I had to correspond with Theresa May's office, and she was addressed as Mrs May, even when PM.

Also, can I ask, whether I am correct in thinking the following sentence in nonsensical - i.e. not that it's silly, but rather that the word inimicable in this sentence makes no sense? Open to correction...

"But wherever they are found …
… they pursue a common policy…

… inimicable … to freedom."

That's interesting @FleeceNavidadFromTheSheep

My MP is also a Sir (wonder whether we have the same one, but I have written to him as Dear Rt Hon Sir Biggest-Balls-Ever

Try this debretts.com/etiquettes/forms-of-address/

I would write Dear Jimmy.

[quote Alltheprettyseahorses]This might be handy - not only does it have contact details for all MPs, it also says how to address them in correspondence members.parliament.uk/members/Commons[/quote]
According to that I should write Dear Jimmy Bigballs and thus I shall proceed!

@NatashaBedwouldbenice

I would write Dear Jimmy.

I'm tempted to write Dear Gobshite, but would rather he reads past the form of address!

Definitely Dear First Name. I write to my MP all the time.

I've written a number of official letters to MP's and would always write Dear Firstname Surname MP.

Writing to my own one I would probably just write Dear Firstname, I am their constituent after all and don't need to bow down to them. You will not be written off for not addressing them correctly OP.

Most Conservative mps now could be addressed as dear dishonourable. Anyone with any honour would have written a letter themselves.

Also, remember that they serve you. Most seem to have forgotten that and think it's the other way around.

I just put hello at the start of an email to mps. Mainly because I know I won't be able to stop myself from putting 'dear mr/Mrs useless twatface'.

Plus you won't get an actual reply from them usually. It's normally their secretary, or whatever weird title they give themselves these days.

I would write Dear Mr Bigballs and I would expect him to write dear Ms Ragwort ... not use my first name.

Given that these are our representatives in the House of Commons, I am not going to address an MP with any more pomp and ceremony than if I were writing to anyone else.

They might be able to insist the civil servants address them as whatever most serves their ego. But they are not superior to their constituents.

If email, I’d go with first name. In a letter probably Firstname Lastname.

Dear Mr (or Ms) Bigballs,

Only in the address line would you write
Rt Hon First Name Bigballs MP - and that’s only if they are a Rt Hon (member of the privy council, not all of them are).

But if you’re sending an email you don’t need to do this. Just include your own address so they know you’re a constituent.

I used to work for an MP - we’d often get post that was barely legible, so please don’t worry. Most MPs reply to all constituents, so hopefully you’ll get a reply.

@littledrummergirl

Also, remember that they serve you. Most seem to have forgotten that and think it's the other way around.

They are just our elected representatives. Just fellow citizens and members of the community. That’s the point. They’re not super special, more important people who deserve more deference than the cashier in tesco.

@AlexaShutUp

Personally, I would just write Dear Jimmy.

I'm not a fan of fancy titles/obsequious behaviour towards those in positions of power.

This. I would write Dear Jimmy too

When I wrote to mine, I used the format "Dear Mr Bigballs" and signed it from "First name".
In his reply he addressed me as "Ms Last name" and signing it "Jimmy". 😂

It's a shame, he seems like an alright person, but due to his party and the issues for which he campaigns/finds important, he clearly is not.

@AllOfUsAreDead

I just put hello at the start of an email to mps. Mainly because I know I won't be able to stop myself from putting 'dear mr/Mrs useless twatface'.

Plus you won't get an actual reply from them usually. It's normally their secretary, or whatever weird title they give themselves these days.

What weird title?

I somehow get the feeling you don't like your MP

Thanks for writing to them (and complaining). More of us should really do that.