Lobby your MP!
What you need to do to help animals
This is your opportunity to be at the forefront
of an exciting new era for animals! Please, empower yourself -
and animals - by getting involved! Remember, millions of defenceless
animals are desperate for your protection.
It's really important that you contact your constituency MP to
ask them to support the animal protection Early Day Motions (EDMs)
described below. EDMs act as sort of petition for MPs. They serve
to highlight the level of political support for the aims of the
Motion, and create pressure on Government to act.
The more letters and other communications that MPs receive, the
more likely they are to be persuaded to attach importance to animal
protection issues, because:
The responses you elicit also play a vital role in helping us
to inform the public about whether your current MP is compassionate
and principled, or just trying to climb the political ladder without
scruple or regard for their constituents' concerns. Finally, it
will provide information about whether MPs have kept their pre-election
promises, as indicated in their response to the PAD 2005 policy
questionnaire, which is displayed at the bottom of each constituency
page. Five Early Day Motions (EDM) are tabled at the House
of Commons for the 2007-8 session, which call for Government action
on key animal protection issues initially raised by PAD at the
last General Election in 2005.
Search for your MP and constituency entering
your postcode. Once these have been found, you can click to
lobby your MP on each issue, and then enter your name and address.
This enables the automatic generation of letters to your MP addressed
from you. You then have the option to:
- email the MP (if they have an email address) to ask them to
support each animal protection proposal
and/or
- print off letters to send to your MP
You will also be able to edit the letter in order to personalise
it - once again this helps to increase its impact.
Please copy and send us any replies you receive, and let us
know if your MP's email address is invalid. Our address
is PAD, 5th Floor, Alliance House, 9 Leopold Street, Sheffield,
S1 2GY, email pad@vote4animals.org.uk.
To increase your impact further, why not arrange
to visit your MP at a constituency surgery? MPs really respond
to personal visits - the better the quality of your interaction
with the MP, the better your chance of eliciting their sympathy
and interest. The powerful organisations who abuse and kill animals
invest millions of pounds in directly lobbying MPs through personal
contact. But you can achieve this for the good of animals, and
in a way that is much more democratic!
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