I did contact my MP, Diana Johnson, last year regarding a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty. The reply came with an EU myth busters guide. Needless to say, I found her reply rather unhelpful.

I don’t see the point in not supplying your address/postcode, unless you think your MP will use your personal info in a way that is not in your best interests.

If the MP still shirks his responsibilities to his constituents, he can be reminded that you and thousands of others needn’t vote for him. In the current climate of mistrust, even ’safe’ seats are not necessarily safe. We need to use their insecurity to control them in the same way that they use ours to control us.

We will gain ground in this battle, I’m sure.

Maybe it’s time for dusting off an idea I put to the Libertarians a while back – hold our own referendum. Nearly everybody now has an email address book, a computer and a printer. Get a lawyer or pollster who’s worth his/her salt to devise a clear, unbiased wording on the issue, get a marketing expert / copywriter to put together a covering message, and send it round the Web like a chain-letter. Everybody to print off their copy and get their friends, neighbours and workmates to sign; organise a central address (or arrange with the Daily Mail and Daily Express?) or series of collection points.