A reader has written in with a suggestion for how to influence the Government on Covid vaccine passports – “make the Conservative Party fear for their jobs”. Having received a Conservative Party leaflet for the local elections on May 6th (with the name and telephone number of the local candidate), the reader sent the candidate the following text.
Thank you for your letter and application to vote by post. Are you in favour of the use of Covid passports within the UK for access to venues and events such as sporting events, theatres, cinemas, restaurants and pubs? If you are in favour of Covid passports within the UK I shall not be voting for you. My vote will go to the Liberal Democrats, who – unlike the current Conservative Party – seem to be both liberal and democratic. If you are NOT in favour of the use of Covid passports within the UK, please lobby the local constituency office to have a word with Mr Gove that he should re-discover true conservative values. Thank you.
If enough people do this, a powerful message could be sent from the grassroots to Conservative Campaign Headquarters. But will they listen?
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Campaigns typically have factors which they use to determine how many people in the electorate feel the same way as the relatively small number of people who take the time to send a message. It doesn’t take too many people to send a message to cause a change of heart.
Worth a try but the majority of MP’s and Councillors are automatons, mine included.
Emailed the useless twat again on Sunday regards this nonsense, still awaiting the template response.
I get an acknowledgement of my email and that’s all. On every email I send I inform him at the end that I’m sending the information so that at no point in the future can he claim he was unaware.
That’s exactly what I’ve been doing. I also add ‘no reply necessary’ as the ones I have received just add to my ire.
I didn’t even get that, last time (just about a week ago).
“…Councillors are automatons…”
Having been one back in the day – no they’re not (or weren’t c. 20 years ago). Not perfect – but nothing like the subservience that you see in parliament. That’s why I get so angry.
But now? Local government has just become irrelevant in terms of being able to act independently.
My ‘Labour’ MP got the seat after years of LibDem occupancy. I have pointed out to her that her compliance to Starmer’s ruination of opposition has just handed it back to the Devious Dems without a fight!
I have been waiting and hoping for some evidence of a campaign in the Conservative grassroots, to speak in a united voice to lobby MPs against the excessive restrictions, for quite a while. At present there seem to be a few Conservative party voices against what’s going on, but they don’t really appear to have achieved anything significant.
To anyone who is a Conservative party member: are there any signs of effective pushback from the grassroots?
I have a friend who is a sceptic and a Conservative councillor, I am not a member. I am told that the conclusion is that with grants and furlough money going to fund the office costs, the party apparatchiks have been ‘bought’ and are relieved at not having to fund-raise (apparently a cross-party consensus), and there is little dissent within the party, although the local MP is a frequent rebel, the grassroots seem to go along, even when they know it is ridiculous at best.
My (Conservative) MP emailed and asked what my views were about passports etc, and also asked about voting intentions. I assume he emailed everyone he could. Result, he is committed to voting against further repression and for immediate lifting of restrictions. If he does so he might get my vote at the next Westminster election, but I still feel like marking my displeasure for the local elections next month. The problem is we will still elect a muppet, so I think a spoiled ballot is the best answer. I understand that the candidates have to confirm agreement that the ballot paper is not valid, and that means reading each one. Chance to send a message.
As Milton Friedman said, politics is about getting the wrong people to do the right thing.
I was so incensed by the idea of a “passport” to go about my daily life I emailed my (Labour) MP expressing my views in no uncertain terms making the point he was not one of those on the “list” of MPs mentioned in the Mirror article. I received a long and well considered response that ended with his view he is a opposed to certificates or passports.
I will be keeping a keen eye open to see if he sticks to that position if not I will be calling him out.
Writing to my MP is usually a waste of time but I have done so to warn her vaccine passports will see her party wiped out at the next election.
I do so wish that could be true, but the other Parties are at least as bad (well, OK, The LibDems claim to be opposed to these, but they are even more insane than most other Parties in most other respects).
If I have a meaningful alternative I shall place my cross accordingly, but that would be a first! Most likely, I shall have to spoil my vote – which achieves nothing except a slight warm glow.
Your post is spot on iane. The covid agenda has been completely driven by the forthcoming anthropogenic warming agenda, the restrictions imposed in the name of covid were nothing but conditioning for what is to come (and very successful conditioning too).
Any candidate in any election that claims opposition to covid measures but agreement with green measures is, or will become, a hypocrite and not worth a vote.
The LibDems candidates will firmly fit into this camp, so maybe the course of action outlined in your last sentence will be the only course open to anyone that values human liberty.
I don’t trust the LibDems as not long ago that Moran woman was sitting on a group pushing for zero Covid. So obviously not a very intelligent person.
It seems she has now changed her mind and also appeared to want to reject health passports. But can we really trust them?
Okay, the answer is obvious!
I don’t trust them either, but where I am, they are the only ones with any chance of ousting the SNP. For this election in Scotland, there will be much ‘holding of noses’, as they say!
5 long emails I’ve sent to my local in 6 months on the same two questions just with more info to show why I’m asking. Not a single response
Quite so – I was amazed by that recent survey that indicated that 5% of voters actually thought that they could influence government policy!
excus the profanity but who is so fucking stupid as to vote for a conservative candidate after a year of this bullshit?
Plenty, alas. But how nice it would be to get a candidate for whom one would wish to vote!
I don’t even have that option as there are no council elections in our area this May. There’s one for the Police and Crime Commissioner but as I still don’t in all honesty know what they do, I shall not be taking my own pencil to vote.
For what it’s worth, here’s what I’ve sent to my local Scottish Conservatives, as well as Douglas Ross: I am writing an email to let you know that if the position of the Scottish Conservatives is to support Covid passports (or any such state enforced identification; related to health or otherwise), I will never vote Conservative again. Notwithstanding such measures are inherently antithetical to conservative values, it has been abundantly clear for many, many months what this virus is, and what it is not, and it is NOT one that requires the implementation of a system of control over the population befitting East Germany in the 20th Century. Deaths in the entire UK from/with Covid are now 3 per million, a figure so small as to be a rounding error. https://data.spectator.co.uk/ The UK will reach herd immunity on Monday. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/04/07/exclusive-britain-will-pass-covid-herd-immunity-threshold-monday/ As if the introduction of such government overreach wasn’t bad enough in-and-of-itself, it looks like the UK government will use the support of the most authoritarian party to have ever existed on these shores (possibly in the western world), The SNP, to get these Orwellian ‘freedom passes’ through Parliament. Reflect on that fact. The ‘Conservative’ government in Westminster will use the support of the very party you, the… Read more »
I, too, have written to Douglas Ross & to give him his due, he has replied. In essence, placing the success of the vaccine roll out, as the Conservative’s achievement & the threat of the SNP, as the reasons why I should still vote for the Conservatives.
I will reply & one of my comments will be how the compulsive liar, the megalomaniac & the back stabber are too frightful to contemplate in government a moment longer. I will reply that if he is a true Conservative, he will be getting his letter to Graham Brady this week, calling for a vote of no confidence.
Already done this (twice) to my “Conservative” MP. No reply.
I joined the Conservative Party when May was PM. I wrote to my MP fairly frequently expressing my concerns. At the leadership election Hunt and Johnson would not have been my choice, but that’s what it was. I first wrote to my MP about the situation in Wuhan in January 2020. I disagree with most of what has happened over the past 16 months, but my MP doesn’t rock the boat and the Party only write asking for my money. I cancelled my membership yesterday. I don’t need to be a member to write to my MP and perhaps other ‘members’ are cutting purse strings too.
I have had 2 flyers from our local Con Party re May elections. I have written on them in big lettering “I Dont Vote For Dictatorships at Any Level of Gov”….posted it back to the local party HQ
I am not going to vote for any candidate who supports lockdown. So I shall probably be staying at home indefinitely just as our politicians want us to.
I think my MP has already written me off by now.
All I can think of is to increase the threat of actively campaigning against him with Back To Normal leaflets again. I think he has enough complacent blazer-wearers and farmers behind him not to have to worry.
My email has already been sent. I also recommend sending one to the Chairman of the Conservative Association in your area. Let them really get the message!
Simon Jupp, East Devon, has chosen to not support vaccine passports. Thank you Mr. Jupp💕