In a couple of minutes this week I registered my e-mail address with the website below and they assigned me an actual peer of the realm to adopt. You don’t actually get to choose your peer but you get assigned one and that randomness and lottery is part of the appeal.
Peers don’t have constituencies like M.P’s mostly because the don’t actually get elected so don’t need one. This means they don’t have to bother with all that tiresome accountability and reporting back to ordinary people which is why we should generously adopt one.
I’m going to use my brand new 50 year old Sheaffer fountain pen to write mine two letters, one about concerns regarding the Govt. NHS White Paper and the other one to let her know some truths and bust some myths about NHS Pensions. I,m sure she’ll write back as she looks nice in the photograph they’ve sent me of her even though I realise it was taken about 40 years ago.
http://www.goingtowork.org.uk/peers/
