Without googling - can you name your MEP? And are you in/out/don't know?

[AnguaResurgam]

Just wondering (especially if there is any correlation between knowing and preferring to remain).

I don't know, and am still a don't know.

[AnguaResurgam]

Sorry, that should of course be 'can you name any of your regional MEPs?' as it's not quite like a constituency MP.

[BertrandRussell]

Yes. And in.

[ApocalypseSlough]

I don't know my MEP, I'll look it up now.
I'm voting in.

[LineyReborn]

Yes.

In.

[HoneyDragon]

Roger Helman and Glynnis thingummy or something along those lines.

Does that count as knowing?

[MrsBlackthorn]

Yes. I'm signed up to get their newsletter monthly which tells me what they've been working on.

[OrangesandLemonsNow]

Yes and out

[AnguaResurgam]

Does that count as knowing? Yes, I think it does.

[CoolforKittyCats]

Yes and I'm voting leave

[DinosaursRoar]

I can remember his surname, but not first. And am back to being a 'don't know'.

[Tartyflette]

Yep, I 've even met him. (Well, one of them, I think there are three for this region.)
In. Probably.

[Grumpysfirstwife]

No, haven't got a clue but I'm off to find out and voting out.

[HoneyDragon]

Yay me

[allegretto]

Yes and in (but not voting).

[allegretto]

I follow her on FB so have a good idea what she does .

[Sunseed]

Two out of eight, and still wavering.

[BertrandRussell]

"Yes and in (but not voting)."

You won't be bothered if it turns out to be "out" then?

[Brokenbiscuit]

None of us have only one MEP. The European Parliament constituencies are quite large and there are several MEPs for each area.

The leave campaign keeps trying to make a thing out of the fact that so few of us know our MEPs, and this is being used to highlight how undemocratic the EU supposedly is. However, I think the real reason we don't know them is because we each have several. This is thanks to the system of proportional representation rather than any fundamental failure of democracy. PR is arguably far more democratic and representative than our first past the post system.

I could name a couple of my MEPs but not all. I do know which parties they all represent.

[Brokenbiscuit]

You won't be bothered if it turns out to be "out" then?

Perhaps alleg doesn't have the opportunity to vote?

[Grumpysfirstwife]

I've googled and can honestly say I've never heard of any of them. Surely I should know their names but no, not a jot, I don't know their names or faces.

[ilovesooty]

Yes. I've communicated at some point with all of them.

In.

[PinkBuffalo]

Nigel is one of our meps, but I don't know any of the others. Not a fan of him, but I suppose at least people know who he is unlike the others

[PinkBuffalo]

Oh and I am out, but absolutely nothing to do with farage. I am not a fan of him

[allegretto]

You won't be bothered if it turns out to be "out" then?

Sorry - it was a bit ambiguous. I can't vote as I have been out of the UK for more than 15 years.

[sparkleshine83]

No, but I did vote for them, and in.