Writing to your common councilors is easy

Here in the City of London our local elected council representatives are known Common Councilmen. The City is divided into wards, with each ward having between 2 and 10 Common Councilmen. Ben Jonson House sits in the Cripplegate ward, and we have 9 councillors who represent us on the Court of Common Council which is the City of London's primary decision-making body.  The next elections for our Common Councilmen will be held in March 2017.

There is a handy website website called WriteToThem which shows who your elected representative are (including your MP, MEP and local councilors).  It will also let you send a letter (message) to individual Common Councilmen, or to all of them at once.

So, if you have questions for your Common Councilmen in this election year, here is how to ask them using WriteToThem:

Click to go to this first page, Oh, and USE YOUR OWN POSTCODE!

The list of people to contact.  Click to enlarge

From the list of people to contact you can choose just one, or you can click on the "Write to all your councillors" link (which I have put in a red box in the image above) to send the same message to all councillors in one go.

The next step is to type in your message and information about who you are (in a form below the message box):

The message box looks like this

Then press the "Preview and send" button at the bottom of the message page.  Make sure you give a valid email address because the next step will be an email being sent to you to confirm that you really want to send the message.

The email will have the title "Please confirm ...." (the exact title depends on who you sent the message to).  In the email there is a link ... click on that link and the message is sent.

Then sit back and wait for the responses.