Well don't hold your breath. But now, frustrated activists are forcing MPs to face up to the information age. Contacting your member of Parliament requires a degree of patience increasingly rare in our wired world, even if you know who they are or the name of your constituency. Snail mail is still the order of the day since only 170 of Westminster's 659 members have e-mail addresses advertised on the spartan Houses of Parliament website. Fewer than 90 honourable members have their own homepages and those that do might sometimes wish they'd never bothered.
Newspapers are unable to resist bashing politicians' personal homepages.
This week Shipley MP Christopher Leslie came under fire when the Daily Express noticed his website had not been updated in two years. Mr Leslie's site was built by pupils at a local school which has since closed down. I' m waiting for another school to help create a new one. Honestly, you just can't get the staff these days. Patrick Dunleavy, a professor of government at the London School of Economics, says the Palace of Westminster has made no provision for electronic communication.