These are just a few of the comments I’ve seen from participants in the Wild Justice, RSPB, Hen Harrier Action e-action to responses they have been sent by Tory MPs – just a few. If MPs saw the reactions of their constituents to their haughty, evasive and misleading responses they might think again – or maybe they wouldn’t. And for the record, most people are pretty content with the responses they’ve had from Labour and LibDem MPs, and from MSPs north of the Border. I’ve seen rather few responses from Wales and Northern Ireland so far.
‘As you can see, it is the usual sort of deluded Tory clap trap that one comes to expect from this government.‘
‘Not much joy from this tory.’
‘…the letter, which is clearly a ‘fobbing off’ exercise‘
‘… to say she is useless, is an insult to many miscreants‘
‘I will be responding to this denial.‘
‘…seems he wasn’t being very honest in his first response – he said he had spoken to the Minister – now he says he didn’t raise it with them…. very odd‘
‘…it’s the usual mealy-mouthed defence of the indefensible. This is the sort of twaddle that has driven me from reasoned tolerance of field sports to reasoned intolerance of blood sports. These dreadful people have to be stopped. Of course it doesn’t help that the offenders are chums of Johnson and his incompetent, dishonest, thoroughly disreputable government of none of the talents.‘
Not exactly creating a good impression or winning people over.
If you want to give your elected politician a nudge to act for change then please send them a message through this e-action which is a joint campaign by the RSPB, Hen Harrier Action and Wild Justice. Click here to have a look please. You’ll be joining over 90,000 others. Thank you!
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Yes I am sorry to say the Tory response is rather arrogant with the , “we know best attitude”.To an extent one might expect this as they are “hand in glove” with the shooters and all the terrible treatment of all other animals that occurs on grouse moors and which shames this country. . They can hold out for a bit longer with this arrogant attitude but in the end they will be swept away. Cruelty to grouse moor animals, the killing of birds of prey and the destruction of our moorlands will be stopped.
Tonight Chris Packham said you’d created a second letter to send to MPs in response to their unacceptable replies. But I can’t see it on here. Help please! Thanks.
Susan – Chris probably meant this https://markavery.info/2020/08/24/a-10-point-plan-to-respond-to-your-conservative-mp-in-england/ Thanks very much!
I got the usual widespread letter of evasion and bullshit from one of our Tory MS saying he would consult with the shadow environment person in the Senedd not the minister . So I responded with a letter largely taken from Mark’s suggested response to this rubbish. the reply was astonishing, pointing out this was all devolved in Wales ( perhaps we should have included the Westminster MP as well ) and that he refuted all my response especially the criticism of the PACEC report. He got a stinging response in reply——- what a complete right wing shit. We have PR in Wales but I have had no response from any of the other MS that supposedly represent Mid Wales, one other Tory, two Labour and that numpty Hamilton from UKIP.
Often with correspondence to MPs they only really engage with a topic when you reply to their reply. They seem to use this as a measure of the strength of feeling on an issue. First responses are stock answers (good or bad) written by a staffer. If that shuts you up, it’s often job done for them. They get a lot of letters after all…
When you critique the response you often receive a more thoughtful and personal reply or invited to speak about the issue in person at a surgery.
The response from my sympathetic Labour MP who has previously spoken out on the issue was ok but still contained inaccuracies. She has now received several replies correcting these myths, with links to improve her knowledge of the subject and with a further request to lobby the minister.
I implore everybody to reply to their MPs first response. They only take you seriously when you can’t be fobbed off.
At least you got replies. My first email on raptor persecution to my local (Con) MP got a quick response saying “If you want me to do something write a letter saying what you want me to do.” So I did but my letter elicited no further response. My next letter didn’t either. I’m not hopeful this time around.
Perhaps I should name and shame…
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