WALTHAMSTOW: MP offers scrutiny chance (From East London and West Essex Guardian Series)
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WALTHAMSTOW: MP offers scrutiny chance
8:34am Friday 3rd September 2010 in Your Local Areas By Safira Ali
WALTHAMSTOW MP Stella Creasy is organising Question Time-style events to give constituents the opportunity to scrutinise her work.
Miss Creasy, who was elected in May, says the sessions will also enable residents to raise local concerns.
She said: "As the MP for Walthamstow I’m always looking for ways to make sure local residents are able to engage in the work I do.
"I also want to help them work with each other to achieve common ground for social action in Walthamstow.
"It’s been an amazing five months since I was elected as the MP for Walthamstow - from trying to get to grips with parliamentary procedure to trying to find an office or answer the phones and the 22,000 emails we have received.
"Working with others here in Walthamstow has always informed my work - whether organising our summer youth project, fighting for investment in local schools in Parliament or even lobbying with them for support for refugees and asylum seekers.
"To help that process I am seeking to hold regular public meetings through local organisations."
If you work with a local organisation and would be interested in taking part contact Miss Creasy on stella@workingforwalthamstow.org.uk.
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Comments(2)
EducateCommunities
says...
4:12am Mon 13 Sep 10
As she was elected by the public it makes sense to open her sessions to the public if she has nothing to hide.
She will only invite members of her own flock as she thinks this is "God's Own Country" one of her many quotes.
Or is she just looking for more praise
for what I don't know. What exactly has she actually done in all her time as a politician before and after she was elected as a MP/Mayor etc ?
Techno2 says...
1:10pm Fri 3 Sep 10
Its a pity though that she is only interested in letting people from local organisationsbe involved at this stage. After all, she is not legally accountable to these organisations. They do not, as organisations, have a vote, nor, I suspect, do many of them pay taxes.
It is the electorate which Ms Creasy is accountable to. Could Ms Creasy agree to have open scrutiny sessions directly with the general public directly instead?
And will she permit questions to be put to her which she will actually be committed to providing full and public answers to, for instance, what her views are of the thefts and corruption in the local council? Her silence on this topic, before and after the election, has been deafening. It does not require coteries of people from 'local organisations' to be present for her to end the code of omerta in the Labour Party - simply a sincere intention to be open and honest with the public.