Talk:Lobbying in the United Kingdom

Nonsense
This looks to have been mostly liften from a similar article about the US, with lines such as "Lobbying activities are also performed at the state level, and lobbyists try to influence legislation in the state legislatures in each of the 50 states. At the local level, some lobbying activities occur with city council members and county commissioner, specially in the larger cities and more populous counties.". As far as I'm aware, the UK isn't comprised of 50 states... doktorrob&trade; 22:09, 6 November 2008 (UTC)

Rewrite
I have rewritten. Also nominated template for deletion, as it cionsists entirsly of American lobbying organisations.--Smerus (talk) 13:57, 30 November 2008 (UTC)

Balance and Scope
I have reworked the content into a overview section and a history section. I have included one punchy example of recent lobbying and advocacy (Flying Matters) where there is particularly detailed information available during both to there very public activities and also the leaked strategy document. I suggest we also need more content about earlier lobbying and I suggest we should have some that are a bit more 'honourable' as I can't believe that all lobbying has been bad. How about during the Victorian period as the early social institutions were being created and people were lobbying for universal education etc etc. Are there examples of modern straightforward lobbying? I believe that one can still arrange to meet ones MP in the lobby. Is that true? Do people still do it? PeterEastern (talk) 22:53, 3 March 2010 (UTC)
 * I have concluded that the issues of party funding and the creation of peers is within scope on the basis of quoted comments made by Cameron and the content of the 'Lobbying: Access and Influence in Whitehall' report which both cover both lobbying and funding.

Check please
As I have been working on this article of the past few days I have been gradually appreciating the scale of the issue and the level of concern that the subject is generating. As such I am asking other people to review the article for balance and accuracy and tone. If anyone has comments to make who don't feel confident to make changes directly then please add your comments to this talk page and I (or someone else) will have the changes. PeterEastern (talk) 22:04, 6 March 2010 (UTC)
 * I think this article is pretty much complete now. I have emailed a few people who might know more about the subject for their feedback, but it probably doesn't need to get much longer. We could spin our articles for 'Aviation lobbying in the United Kingdom', 'Military lobbying in the United Kingdom' etc if there is a lot of material that relates to the sectors. I will update it from time to time as the situation develops. PeterEastern (talk) 16:41, 10 March 2010 (UTC)

What does this mean?
In the section BAA Limited, the following sentence appears: BAA employs PR company Finsbury which is headed by from Roland Rudd and was sold the company to WPP Group for £50m in 2001. There is no sense to this sentence and it should be corrected by whoever inserted it or someone who knows what it should say. Agent0060 14:39, 14 July 2010 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Agent0060 (talk • contribs)
 * If no-one is going to make the sentence make sense, I am going to delete it.

Agent0060 15:31, 28 August 2010 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Agent0060 (talk • contribs)

Dreadful page
This has to be one of the worst pages I've seen on Wikipedia. It has clearly been written in the manner of an attack on one specific lobbying industry (aviation), citing far more examples than necessary and making no effort to give examples of far larger lobbying sectors. It doesn't even acknowledge that the work of the anti-aviation lobby is a form of lobbying. This entire page needs to be re-written with some degree of balance and objectivity. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.198.203.3 (talk) 11:28, 6 December 2011 (UTC)

out of date
This needs a major new section to deal with the Transparency of Lobbying, Non-party Campaigning and Trade Union Administration Act 2014 (and its consequences, such as reports in January 2015 that it is causing problems for the Churches). Diomedea Exulans (talk) 14:01, 22 January 2015 (UTC)

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