Canterbury and Whistable residents - Rosie Duffield

[drwitch]

Is there anything we can and should do to signal our support for her. I know of 3 cases personally where she has helped. But what can we do to a) show that she is a very good constituency MP and b) that lots of canterbury and whitstable residents agree with her on the importance of sex (as opposed to gender)

I live in the constituency. I support RD's stance on women's rights and trans issues unequivocally. At the same time I am pretty lukewarm about her as an MP, though she is obviously a big improvement on Julian Brazier, her predecessor.
The difficulty with reaching out to RD to offer support is that it is jolly hard to get a response from her. She has that reputation locally ie letters and emails going unanswered, etc...I've experienced that with her myself.
But at the same time I would like her to know she has support...
Oh, and Whitstable is not full of old dears and I rather object to my workplace, the University of Kent, being described as shit!

@highame

Down our way we have DFL's (down from London's) we also have the NFL's (normal for London) who complain about our local deli not having the rights sort of vegan food

In London, Londoners have Down To and Up To London people who do the same (not that there's anything wrong with vegan food).

The Up To London and Down To London people often don't stay in London forever. After some years many leave - either to return home (including Whitstable) or move on somewhere else (including Whitstable). Yet for some reason people elsewhere (including Whitstable) refer to them as 'down from London'

@NecessaryScene

I know "the bins not being emptied for 6 weeks" is a little thing, but that what a local MP is there for.

It's really not. It's the council's responsibility. An MP is your local representative in parliament. She's not handling the bins, and there's no real point her taking her concerns about bins to Parliament, because they don't handle your bins either.

I mean, maybe if there was something worth making a fuss about, speaking in the House of Commons about the state of the bins in your county, as a political point, say about national rules on bin handling privatisation?

But it won't actually directly deal with your bins now - you have to deal with the council there and elect/not elect the councillors.

Casework is an important part of being a constituency MP though. Something might not be directly their responsibility but letters written by MPs' offices to public sector bodies are considered a priority for action, they can rattle cages and get the right people involved.