I have even met our councillors and MP more than once (not MEPs though). Admittedly this is the first time in 21 years as a voting adult that I can say yes to all three questions there, but still.
I have a collection of names in my head, and could name several of the town’s current and past councillors, but I don’t know which of them represent our ward.
I guess I’ve always been “lucky” living in constituencies with well-known MPs — Ken Clarke in Nottingham, and Menzies Campbell in St Andrews — so it has always been easy to follow their activities in the media.
*g* My MPs since I have been old enough to know who they were: Michael Heseltine, Douglas Hurd, Andrew Smith. (My parents' MP is David Cameron.)
When everyone else at FE college got their 'hooray, you can vote - vote for me!' letters at 18 from backbench or Opposition MPs, mine was from the Foreign Secretary. :)
Why's question 1) limited to if you live in the UK? I have a constituency MP in the UK, despite living in Japan... Still eligible to vote in the referendum despite having been overseas for a few years.
And the honest answer to the questions are that I am much more aware of my "to be" representatives in the constituency of Ludlow etc. than I am my current representatives in Poplar. Not least, I find I have more in common with the former than the latter!
London Assembly representative is also (of course) Labour. Possibly more surprisingly, local councillors go from 3 x Conservative to 1 x Liberal Democrat in moving from London to rural Shropshire.
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I guess I’ve always been “lucky” living in constituencies with well-known MPs — Ken Clarke in Nottingham, and Menzies Campbell in St Andrews — so it has always been easy to follow their activities in the media.
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When everyone else at FE college got their 'hooray, you can vote - vote for me!' letters at 18 from backbench or Opposition MPs, mine was from the Foreign Secretary. :)
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London Assembly representative is also (of course) Labour.
Possibly more surprisingly, local councillors go from 3 x Conservative to 1 x Liberal Democrat in moving from London to rural Shropshire.
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