mysociety/theyworkforyou — Issue #114: Make it more obvious how to change your MP
Author: sedm0784
Created: 2012-02-21 12:02:57+00:00
State: open

It just took me quite a while to figure out how to change my MP, because I am an idiot and had forgotten I set a postcode on my account, and it's not immediately obvious from the various pages I looked at that this is the mechanism used for setting your MP.

Specifically, I looked at:

1. The http://www.theyworkforyou.com/user/ page, which contains no mention of MPs or postcodes (so it didn't occur to me to click on [Edit your details](http://www.theyworkforyou.com/user/?pg=edit),

2. The [Your MP](http://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/jane_ellison/battersea) page, which, if you already have a postcode set, redirects to the page for your MP, which doesn't contain any information about how to set your MP.

I think it would be useful for idiots like me to have a link along the lines of [Edit your postcode to change your MP](http://www.theyworkforyou.com/user/?pg=edit) on the individual MP pages.

Even better, it would be nice to have a "Set this MP as your MP" link not requiring any postcode input at all, but that would presumably require a lot more backend changes.

*Even* better, if someone unsubscribes to updates from one MP and subscribes to another, it might be nice to query if they want to change their current MP. I'm not sure how that would even work, though.