Take Action: Write Letters

When politicians do things they ought not to, many people ask “but what can I do”? One effective thing each of us can do is write letters. One letter might spark an editorial or article in a major newspaper. 1,000 letters will become a news story.

And despite what we think, politicians do at some level care about what we say, because they are always only one election away from oblivion. Take the time to send letters when you feel moved – don’t rely on someone else to take that step.

The nice folks over at The Demos (from Greek, meaning “the common people”) have built an easy to use tool to make it easy for anyone to send a letter (via email) to a number of politicians or news organizations.

(And I bet if I send The Demos folks the names of all the Conservatives that voted, in the last parliament, for anti-floor-crossing legisltation, they’d consider putting up a new check-box that sends an email to them all! And save me from having to write that software myself!)