Ed: many of you have taken up the appeal to write to your constituency MPs, even in the knowledge that answer there will be none. Please keep up this campaign, please let your MPS know what you think! Here are two letters from our readers which might inspire you, the first expresses the frustration we all feel:
“Dear Mr Tomlinson,
I am convinced, without a shadow of doubt that even you, as an elected Member of Parliament must be aware of the situation I first brought to your attention in May 2020.
You did actually reply to that message (as you did to my first message in December 2019 when I congratulated you on the election result).
In my last message you may recall that I asked you to convey your thoughts and opinions on the current crisis/ crises which appear to assail this “government”.
This you have patently failed to do, and I can only speculate that either you do not have an opinion or consider me, as a tax paying constituent, unworthy of a reply.
I would suggest that either/ both of these options do not place either you or the party you represent in the best possible place for a glittering future.
I follow your voting in HOC with interest as you know, with particular focus on the imminent issue of vaccine passports and, again speculate ( because by not replying you have left me with no other option) whether you will vote against the government and the Nuremberg code of 1947 just like your colleagues Sir Desmond Swayne, Sir Charles Walker, Peter Bone and the estimated 45 plus others, and change the habits of your parliamentary lifetime?
As always, I await your response with eager anticipation, and at the same time inform you that our one way conversation is being published,
Respectfully, Jim Etherington”
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Ed: in the next letter to a rather prominent MP our reader P.R. doesn’t mince his words, detailing the failings of the government and the MPs:
“Dear Sir Edward
At the end of WW2 Winston Churchill Prime Minister and Leader of the Conservative Party spoke to the crowds and said that this was a victory for the cause of freedom.
How far we have come, when a so-called Conservative Government threatens employees with coercion and threatens their jobs if they have the temerity to question government dictats or what compounds they inject into their own bodies. Ministers clearly have neither a moral compass nor political one denying the use of Covid passports while planning for them for weeks, and now trying to force children and young people to have an injection of this experimental compound when there is no real risk to them from Covid, what an absolute disgrace they are.
This so-called Conservative Government wants to tax what we eat if they don’t like it and ban our heating appliances and cars because they know what is good for us. They watch and approve of Hancock handing out contracts to relations, no doubt there are plenty more so why worry about that one!
We are led by a lefty, green extremist, who happens to sleep with Boris Johnson, who is now a fully paid-up member of the club. When Gove introduced the ban on wood burning stoves, Johnson wrote in the Daily Telegraph, that this was lunacy and would leave rural communities cold, how right he was. This was however before he was fully connected to the 5G network of Gove, Gummer, Gates, Gore and Goldsmith, and their Davos attendee friends, who will no doubt have plenty of directorships and consultancies lined up for him after he is booted out, the Blair model is too good to resist. In my opinion it makes clear that he is not really a shallow windbag but a devious schemer or may be both. His pronouncements would be funny if they were confined to the rugby club where they belong, but unfortunately, he is now the new messiah among the whips fodder that the modern Conservative Party has become.
In my opinion this government’s policies are designed to increase the wealth of these largely corrupt group of mega billionaires at the expense of those who can least afford it and increase fuel poverty for millions. It’s certainly building back better for the billionaires, the Sheriff of Nottingham would be proud of Johnson.
In my own area of expertise as an agronomist, I am seeing some 500 acres of the best land in Nth Lincolnshire go under solar panels, conveniently described as Grade 3 land even though it regularly grew brussel sprouts not that long ago. The farm manager of a block of some 250 acres which also includes two wind turbines says it will gross the landowner some 1 million pounds per annum (no blame attributed to him, its business). Still, I guess he will need some recompense for the disruption the Goldsmith/Defra plans have for his remaining stock being chased by Lynx or Wildcats in their re-wilding schemes, and his loss in crop production, due to his carbon footprint being too high. He could grow crops for “green” fuel for use in an AD plant, then he can use as much diesel, fertilizer and pesticides as he likes.
There is not a problem that can’t be cured by throwing our money at it, mostly at exorbitant cost, value for money is something this government does not understand, along with the late great Lady T understanding of sound money.
This government is intoxicated by the sound of the printing presses running at white hot speeds, which I assume they believe will inflate away the crippling debts they have inflicted on the nation. Being a tax and spend party why would they, Corbyn has little to commend him, but his one truth was that Johnson had stolen all his policies.
The real criminals in all this however are the spineless masses of Conservative MP’s who sit by and support the most outrageous assault on our civil liberties in peace time without a whimper and have nothing to say, oblivious or uncaring to the damage they are doing to liberty and freedom under the law.
As the weeks and months since Covid appeared have gone by, we have watched in growing disbelief and horror the failure of any MP to resign in protest against this lying discreditable sham masquerading as a democratic Conservative government. Each one of you is culpable, therefore, of supporting it by default
Being a stalwart of the fight against the tyranny of the EU, and your record as a constituency MP, it gives me no pleasure to say it but clearly you are a fully paid-up member of the Johnson acolytes club, and his tyrannical cabal of ministers.
This Conservative Party stands to the left of Heseltine and Blair almost every issue, while throwing a few crumbs of comfort to the proletariat about getting tough on crime(again) and immigration (again) while achieving nothing.
I absolve from criticism the great and courageous group of back benchers which includes Esther McVey, Sir Graham Brady, John Redwood and my neighbour Karl McCartney, (the latter being the only true conservative MP in Lincolnshire). They are the rump of what is left of a true right of centre party and truly salute them for standing for the values of a party that Churchill and Thatcher stood for.
The rest of you are a disgrace to their memory, and I really hope retribution will come when the public fully realise what you have done, my hope would be for a re-alignment with a new centre right party and consign you and the rest to the dustbin of history.
Regards, etc, P.R.”
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Well. I agree with PR.
Agree with the all the points raised but I struggle with penultimate paragraph.
‘I absolve from criticism the great and courageous group of back benchers which includes Esther McVey, Sir Graham Brady, John Redwood and my neighbour Karl McCartney, (the latter being the only true conservative MP in Lincolnshire). They are the rump of what is left of a true right of centre party and truly salute them for standing for the values of a party that Churchill and Thatcher stood for’
‘Great and courageous’ – Nah! Surely the author can see through the whole Tory brand scam. The MPs above play a vital role in creating the illusion of rebellion to keep the credulous Tory supporter/voter/member onside and thus electable. A great and courageous centre Right principled Tory would have left the Party and stood as an independent.
PR – I just l-u-r-v-e that sentence: ” . . . . fully connected to the 5G network of Gove, Gummer, Gates, Gore and Goldsmith, and their Davos attendee friends,”
Rest assured that I shall plagiarize/quote/copy at every opportunity.
I agree with Biscotte. It is too long, and is likely to end up as bin-fodder. When I write to my MP I always try to say what I need to on one sheet of A4. It stands a lot better chance of being read if it is brief and to the point.
I agree with you two guys. Also I would add why write JUST to your MP? Send copies to anyone you can think of- councillors, media and even constituency party members if you can find out their address. If you are in any groups get it co-signed or ask others to write themselves even if they just photocopy your letter. The point is MPs are happy to treat you as a lone letter writer they can ignore and file away. They need to think careful about responding to letters that may have a wider circulation. Make a note on your letter of all the people receiving a copy. The more the better.
Phillip. A whole sheet A4? I’m thinking of e-mailing 1 to 4 liners to the P.M., or rather, the Cabinet Office.
Just at the moment thoughit’s difficult to select the most important subject.
All good points. First is too long, and second would not get to the third para by mp luvvie reading it. F..a..r too long.
A long diatribe is not necessary to make your point. A couple of times I have sent a white feather with a three line letter attached – to each of the cabinet.
It cost me a little but president Johnson got thirty pieces of silver for selling us out very recently. All those american 5 and 10 cent coins came in handy.
If nothing else, it keeps the mps’ xray machines up to date.
Biscotte……….I agree with your point that the second letter is way too long. Letters to MP’s have to be succinct and to the point, otherwise they will not get read, and if they are actually read by secretarial staff that will be as far as it goes. The MP to whom the letter is addressed will just not see it. Another no no when writing to an MP is not to be threatening or abusive in any way and those letters which fit into that category get binned without a moments thought. A friend of mine who is always writing to our local ‘Remainer’ Conservative MP about one thing or another, never gets a reply because he gets carried away with the hard hitting criticisms.
Is the purpose to get a reply.?
Il’d would have thought the aim was to jump start the B****r.
It will take more than letters to jump start our MP. Nothing short of a long cranck handle up the orifice he speaks out of would have any chance of jump starting him.
Nothing short of a long, appropriately placed crank handle would have any chance of jump starting our MP. Even then, I wouldn’t lay money on it working.