I'm afraid I was put off EMAG at the Westminster level by their lobby - I went along with a genuinely open mind, but their florid spokespeople seemed to me enormously pompous to the point of arrogance: "We demand the dismissal of the miscreants at the Treasury", "We cannot accept any priority for people on low incomes - all must be compensated with the same proportions" and other similar messages (I'm paraphrasing from memory as it's a while ago now). There were 20 or so other MPs from all parties there and everyone I spoke to afterwards was alienated.

That doesn't mean that I defend the huge delay in setting up a compensation scheme - I entirely understand why people are angry and distressed and it's why I feel the absolute priority now is to get on with it. As I understand EMAG's pledge it involves reopening the issue of the package to give more compensation. I honestly don't think this is realistic under any government in current circs, and the two realistic possibilities are that the current package is implemented quickly in the next months or that a post-election government says sorry, we're short of money, we'll come back to it sometime. I'm 100% behind the first of these, but not behind having another look at changing the package - it is in my opinion not in anyone's interest, since it would probably be used as an excuse for another interminable delay. I'm sorry not to be more helpful but it's best to be honest!