http://gapingvoid.com/2004/10/25/more-boris/ "cartoons drawn on the back of business cards" Wed, 23 May 2012 20:07:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= http://gapingvoid.com/2004/10/25/more-boris/#comment-2446 Barry Dorrans Mon, 25 Oct 2004 14:06:58 +0000 http://gapingvoid.com/?p=1006#comment-2446 Henley is a safe conservative seat. There's no way any other party is going to be returned. This is not to say Boris ignores Henley, he has a lot of physical meetings in town, heck I've even stopped the man in the street to bend his ear about stuff, and as I've said already he's always responded to things I've emailed about. But his blog is not a constituency vehicle. Perhaps it will go that way, but right now it's a web site about Boris. Yes I'm sure we were aware that Boris had other jobs, but if you're making a web site under the banner of Boris Johnson MP then I feel you should be posting more about the MP and what you're doing for those who voted for you. People are selfish. People don't really care about the big picture, the rest of the country. We want our hospital to stay open, we want more parking, we have opinions on fox hunting. What we don't want is to be used as a stepping stone to push someone up the political tree. Of course there's no way to stop that, but heck, don't ignore those who voted for you. That's all I'm asking. Tim Ireland commented that the majority of the content is back dated stuff. Maybe we'll see things more relevant to the constituency soon. I hope so, because otherwise that web site is just a puff piece, nothing more. It's not an MP blogging, it's a celebrity who just happens to be an MP. (The comment wouldn't load? Here, or at mine? If it died at mine, let me know what error was chucked please - the perils of rolling your own code. Running out to work now though.) Henley is a safe conservative seat. There’s no way any other party is going to be returned. This is not to say Boris ignores Henley, he has a lot of physical meetings in town, heck I’ve even stopped the man in the street to bend his ear about stuff, and as I’ve said already he’s always responded to things I’ve emailed about.
But his blog is not a constituency vehicle. Perhaps it will go that way, but right now it’s a web site about Boris. Yes I’m sure we were aware that Boris had other jobs, but if you’re making a web site under the banner of Boris Johnson MP then I feel you should be posting more about the MP and what you’re doing for those who voted for you. People are selfish. People don’t really care about the big picture, the rest of the country. We want our hospital to stay open, we want more parking, we have opinions on fox hunting. What we don’t want is to be used as a stepping stone to push someone up the political tree. Of course there’s no way to stop that, but heck, don’t ignore those who voted for you. That’s all I’m asking.
Tim Ireland commented that the majority of the content is back dated stuff. Maybe we’ll see things more relevant to the constituency soon. I hope so, because otherwise that web site is just a puff piece, nothing more. It’s not an MP blogging, it’s a celebrity who just happens to be an MP.
(The comment wouldn’t load? Here, or at mine? If it died at mine, let me know what error was chucked please — the perils of rolling your own code. Running out to work now though.)

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