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Have a Lib Dem MP? Call them today!

September 5th, 2011 by

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Photograph by Stuart Chalmers

Today’s a big day for your MP and our NHS.

Nick Clegg has called emergency talks today at 5pm, because he’s worried that Liberal Democrat MPs (including yours) are preparing to revolt and vote against the government’s changes to our National Health Service. People power is working.

The news is reporting that support for this bill “hangs in the balance” and many MPs “will not decide until the crucial meeting” if they’ll back Lansley’s plans. They might even push for the bill to be scrapped to protect our NHS.

Imagine your MP sitting in their office today, worrying about the big meeting and the vote. Every two minutes their phones goes, and each time it’s a 38 Degrees member from their constituency, telling them to stand up for our precious NHS. That could tip the balance, and send a clear signal to the government that this is bill is heading for the dustbin of history.

The 38 Degrees website makes it easy to call your MP. Enter your postcode, and you’ll get their number, as well as ideas about what to say when they answer the phone. Make the call now:

https://secure.38degrees.org.uk/phone-your-lib-dem-MP

Photo: From Flickr by Stuart Chalmers – shared under Creative Commons licence.

Update 1 – You can tweet your Lib Dem MP too. 38 Degrees volunteers have put together a list of all Lib Dem MPs on Twitter.

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  • Samson

    Andrew George is already on the case , no need to phone!

  • samson

    Andrew George is already on the case. He is preparing for the debate and needs to concentrate on that at present.  

  • Roger

    According to a glossy brochure summarising a conference of executives from the private sector, held in New York in October 2010, Mark Bricknell, a senior adviser to David Cameron, told the audience “In future, the NHS will be a state insurance provider, not a state deliverer. The NHS will be shown no mercy and the best time to take advantage of this will be in the next couple of years.” On 16 May 2011, Cameron said: “Let me make it quite clear: there will be no privatisation.” Do you believe him? I certainly don’t. The Tories are at it again, sell of averything to their cronies and to hell with the rest.

  • Johnbutcher

    Can I ask you all to support my epetition to bring back local radio. It used to be a good way to find out what was happening locally but the original stations have been taken over by the likes of Capital & Heart with NO local content. My petition hopes to change that by giving more power to local community stations.
    This is the link; http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/284 Please support it. Just copy and paste into your browser.

    Bring back local radio

    Responsible department: Department for Culture, Media and Sport

    Local communities are suffering from local
    radio stations being taken over by large broadcasting companies such as
    Heart & Capital. Local radio was successful in informing
    communities with local news and brought specialised music such as
    country & jazz. There are numerous community stations doing that job
    at present with hundreds of volunteers but restricted to low power
    transmission by OFCOM. To survive these stations must be given power to
    get out to the larger community. Radio stations such as Heart &
    Capital who have gone national by the back door should be given a
    national FM waveband to free up the airwaves for the reintroduction of
    truly local radio.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_CQJQ2LAOHJD2GIF3FBBJQS4HZE Rob

    The prospect of the Clegg trying to convince other Lib-Dems to pass these reforms is sickening. Why is it necessary?

    Please take a look at this:

    http://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2011/06/06/the-nhs-a-stunningly-cost-effective-supplier-of-high-quality-healthcare/

  • http://thoughtfulcampaigner.wordpress.com/2011/09/12/astroturfing-38-degrees-and-mps-views-of-e-actions/ Astroturfing, 38 Degrees and MPs views of e-actions « thoughtful campaigner

    [...] tactics that 38 Degrees selected to use to campaign on the NHS Bill was to encourage the public in Lib Dem constituencies to phone their MPs, and they’ve also spent months building local groups to get behind the [...]

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