Template to email your MP

[jenlemon]

Non-Templatey, template to email your MP

It's true. Template emails don't get anywhere near the response an individually crafted one does.

Here's the letter I used which can be easily customised depending on which party your MP belongs to. (Mine is Labour)

Important to include your full name, postal address and phone number in your email so your MP knows you are one of their constituents. There is a strict convention in the House of Commons that MPs may only act on behalf of their own constituents.

The EDM now has 79 MPs signed up. Keep up the momentum..

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Dear XX,

As a resident of your constituency, I would like to ask you to support the Early Day Motion 1239 that was put forward by the Liberal Democrat MP Stephen Lloyd regarding the 2019 Loan Charge agenda being pursued by the HMRC.

https://www.parliament.uk/business/p...ession=2017-19

The ERM has already garnered support from 79 MPs including [49] members of the [LABOUR] Party.

In his motion, Mr Lloyd states that.."HMRC are aggressively pursuing individuals.... with no independent right of appeal; further believes that the Charge is likely to cause financial distress and bankruptcies, and believes that retrospectively taxing something that was technically allowed at the time, is unfair."

The people affected by the loan charge are not wealthy or privileged individuals, they are contractors, freelancers and agency workers, including social workers, supply teachers and bank and locum nurses and doctors. They are the very people who live in [NAME YOUR CONSTITUENCY HERE] and make up part of your constituency base.

This article in the Evening Standard explains in detail the devastating financial impact the loan charge will have on these individuals if permitted to go ahead:
https://www.standard.co.uk/business/...-a3861916.html

I ask that you please consider adding your support to the motion so that the 2019 Loan Charge and its consequences on countless workers can be debated robustly and fully in Parliament.

With best regards,
NAME, POSTAL ADDRESS AND EMAIL

[nobody123]

Same template letter I received from Mel Stride... unbelievable

[kentishlad]

Wrote to my MP and although he doesn't do EDM's (waste of administrative money and expense he says), he did write to the treasury.

This is their response.

I feel a robust reply to Mr Stride coming on

https://www.dropbox.com/s/i6owvyv3kl...e001a.pdf?dl=0

https://www.dropbox.com/s/vzh112vt64...e001b.pdf?dl=0

RT Honorable??

[basilspinone]

Wrote to my MP and although he doesn't do EDM's (waste of administrative money and expense he says), he did write to the treasury.

This is their response.

I feel a robust reply to Mr Stride coming on

https://www.dropbox.com/s/i6owvyv3kl...e001a.pdf?dl=0

https://www.dropbox.com/s/vzh112vt64...e001b.pdf?dl=0

[DaRkLoRd]

My Letter to MP

Hello all

This what I sent to my local MP (Ruth Cadbury). Not very sophisticated but got her attention and now she has signed up.


"From: "****"
Sent: 31 May 2018 19:40
To:
Subject: THE 2019 LOAN CHARGE (Early day motion 1239)

Dear Ruth Cadbury



Please see the link below and kindly provide your support.



https://www.parliament.uk/edm/2017-19/1239



This is something that will bankrupt us and in my case I will most probably
be ruined completely and left homeless. What HMRC are proposing to do,
retrospectively, is unfair. Please look into this and join the other MPs
with your support.

I will greatly appreciate this.

Regards"

[Lurker99]

Should I send another email?

Or wait until I hear back?

I never heard back at all from my MP, emailed 3-4 weeks ago. Will chase him.

[Sunflowers]

Beware of templates. If MPs become aware that it is a template, they'll treat it with less weight than if you composed the letter yourself.

Should I send another email?

Or wait until I hear back?

[GreenMirror]

Beware of templates. If MPs become aware that it is a template, they'll treat it with less weight than if you composed the letter yourself.

Indeed. All the templates get bundled together and one generic reply gets sent.

Which is why for the MP committee I wrote my own personal response with no reference to any templates.

[WTFH]

Thanks I emailed my MP - Boris J ( the Home Secretary )

Dharmin

Boris is the Foreign Secretary, not the Home Secretary, that post is currently occupied by Sajid Javid

[NotAllThere]

Beware of templates. If MPs become aware that it is a template, they'll treat it with less weight than if you composed the letter yourself.

[Dharmin]

Thanks I emailed my MP - Boris J ( the Home Secretary )

Dharmin

Use this to email them.
https://www.writetothem.com

No harm in keeping it short and sweet.


Dear MP,

I am writing to ask if you would consider signing EDM 1239.

The loan charge will force me into bankruptcy.
The loan charge will wipe out all our savings.
The loan charge will mean we have to sell our home.
The loan charge will destroy any chance I have of retiring.
I am not personally affected by the loan charge but I know people who are, and the effect on their families will be devastating.

There are people who received loans in the early 2000s who now face a totally unexpected charge for something that happened almost 20 years ago. To backdate a tax charge 20 years is draconian in the extreme.

It was HMRC who proposed the loan charge to the Government but I am not sure they truly comprehend the damage this will inflict on tens of thousands of ordinary people.

Hopefully the EDM will draw attention to what is a terrible situation in the making.

Yours sincerely,

[Sunflowers]

Thank you for the template.

I've emailed my local MP and will monitor his response.

[Loan Ranger]

Use this to email them.
https://www.writetothem.com

No harm in keeping it short and sweet.


Dear MP,

I am writing to ask if you would consider signing EDM 1239.

The loan charge will force me into bankruptcy.
The loan charge will wipe out all our savings.
The loan charge will mean we have to sell our home.
The loan charge will destroy any chance I have of retiring.
I am not personally affected by the loan charge but I know people who are, and the effect on their families will be devastating.

There are people who received loans in the early 2000s who now face a totally unexpected charge for something that happened almost 20 years ago. To backdate a tax charge 20 years is draconian in the extreme.

It was HMRC who proposed the loan charge to the Government but I am not sure they truly comprehend the damage this will inflict on tens of thousands of ordinary people.

Hopefully the EDM will draw attention to what is a terrible situation in the making.

Yours sincerely,