Emails have been flying between us and Graeme Dey today :-). He has explained why he cannot comment in the debate, there is apparently a difference between constituency MSPs and regional MSPs. He is our only consitutence MSP, we have several regional ones, and I have emailed all of them. As an English person,living here it's a bit different to down south
Our area of Angus south has Graeme Dey (SNP) as our constituency MSP, all the rest are tories,, labour or libs, so how this works out in practice who knows
. At least the man is replying to all our emails :-)
I think you have to reside in a constituency to address the particular MSP.
And Jaysmum, my OH is a Scot, we met in Rome and lived in England for 30 years, and all our holidays up here were wet remember the drought of 76, we got rained out of our tent). So we moved up here in 2002 and the sun has shone ever since
. Seriously, I wouldn’t move back to England. And Nicola talks a lot of sense. At least she's not a parrot
Here is the link in the email:
Parliamentary rules mean that MSPs can only take up issues on behalf of their constituents, so you may wish to make sure your regional MSPs also know your views. You can find their details by entering your postcode at
http://www.parliament.scot/msps.aspx.
I know a number of SNP colleagues who will be speaking in the debate and articulating the concerns that you have put forward. I hope that satisfies your concern.
If I can be of further assistance, please do not hesitate to get in touch.
Regards,
Graeme