Thank you if you have already written to your MP about the Manifesto for Wildlife. If you haven’t got around to it yet then do please give it a go – here is some information and advice.
Here are MPs from whom you have told me that you have had substantive replies (I’m sure there are, and will be, many more – and I’d like to hear who they are please).
Conservative MPs:
- Nick Boles, Grantham & Stamford
- Tobias Ellwood, Bournemouth East
- Chris Heaton-Harris, Daventry
- Damian Hinds, East Hampshire
- Kevin Hollinrake, Thirsk and Malton
- Jo Johnson, Orpington
- Pauline Latham, Mid Derbyshire
- Oliver Letwin, West Dorset
- Tom Pursglove, Corby
- Rory Stewart, Penrith and the Borders
- Rishi Sunak, Richmond
- Hugo Swire, East Devon
- Bill Wiggin, North Herefordshire
Labour MPs:
- Paul Blomfield, Sheffield Central
- Sarah Champion, Rotherham
- Anneliese Dodds, Oxford East
- Peter Kyle, Hove
- Ian Lucas, Wrexham
- Chi Onwurah, Newcastle Central
Lib Dem MPs:
- Tim Farron, Westmorland and Lonsdale
The standard letter from Labour MPs can be seen here.
A revised standard letter from Conservative MPs is now being used – I will come back to that this evening at 6pm.
More on this, later today.
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I now have my response (I’ll get it across to you this morning Mark), but it is, apart from the first and last line, exactly the same as Shaun Micklewright’s. See comments from 23rd.
I have heard that MPs don’t like to receive preformed emails where you just stick your name on the bottom. Doesn’t show much passion but takes up their time.
This is exactly how I shall start my follow up letter. Why is it ok for MPs to send out standard replies to non standard letters? They haven’t answered the questions, I doubt they even see the letters, it takes up little of their time and it doesn’t show much passion.
I refer you to Prasad’s excellent reply to Shaun’s comment.