To Andy Sawford MP
Dear Andy
I haven’t written to your for a while. I thought you deserved a bit of a rest from me and I know you weren’t too pleased that I voted Green in the euro-elections so I’ve been keeping my head down.
However, as I’ve always said, you can rely on my vote in the next general election as you are an excellent constituency MP and this is a marginal seat.
You signed up, unasked, to the ‘thunderclap’ on Hen Harriers that will go out to the world on 10 August – and for that I’m grateful. I wonder how many other MPs have followed suit? I’d love to know – maybe you are the only one. Thank you again.
As you know, the thunderclap merely states that ‘We’re missing our Hen Harriers’ drawing attention to the fact that this fully protected species is sadly depleted because of illegal persecution by the grouse shooting industry. No-one, surely, supports wildlife crime.
And therefore, I’m asking you in this letter to spend a little time asking your Labour colleagues to sign up to the thunderclap too. Maybe the Labour Press team, after promising us all an owl by accident (or actually through hacking of their twitter account) could now send a message of support to the oppressed and downtrodden (sometime literally) Hen Harrier. If this isn’t a bird that Labour should support then what is?
I’m still a fan of Ed Miliband but if he feels he needs something to bolster his image then there is nothing much that would go down better with birders across the UK, in marginal seats as well as safe ones, than a message of support to Hen Harriers.
There is no need to reply to this email but now the cat is out of the bag I hope Ed beats David Cameron and, what’s his name?, oh yes, Nick Clegg, to sign up to the Hen Harrier thunderclap.
best wishes
Mark
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“he needs something”
A little picture of a bird, maybe?