Lobby Your MP to vote against the ESA Cut
The vote is over now but we still need to keep the pressure up – we can win this and stop the cut but we need you to keep contacting MPs
You can read about what happened in the vote here https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/tory-mps-just-begged-government-9279778
Find your MPs contact details for email and twitter
You can find your MPs email address and twitter name (if they have one) by going to this link and entering your postcode.
Once you have your MPs contact details we are asking you to
Download and use these Memes to tweet to your MP (especially if they are a Tory)
To download just right-click and select the option to save the image
(Credit to Jason Batchelor for these memes)
More material that you can Tweet to your MP:
Please tweet the messages below to your MP, and any others that you wish to ask them to vote against the cut
- Video: Conservative MP Heidi Allen explains why she is not supporting the government’s decision to cut disabled people’s income by £30 a week. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AV3mJmPPAPY
- Westminster Hour, Redwood not comfortable with welfare cuts https://bbc.in/2fMCd49
- DPAC’s Video about the #ESACut https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiHBM34k0f0
- SIX Reasons why disabled people need MPs to vote against the #ESACut on Thursday https://dpac.uk.net/2016/11/six-reasons-why-disabled-people-need-mps-to-vote-against-the-esacut-on-thursday/
Email your MP
Please email your MP and ask them to vote against the cut. Many MPs say they do not read and respond to standard form emails – so we are not going to create a standard email to send out, but please just send them a few lines, to let them know that this vote is important to you.
Here are some guidelines for sending emails to MPs
- Tell them you are a constituent of theirs
- Be respectful and polite
- Keep it short and clear
- You can include some of the factual information in the DPAC briefing about the ESA Cut
- Remember to ask them to vote against the ESA Cut in the vote on Thursday 17th
Maybe I’m stupid, but I can’t find the result of the vote! Can anyone enlighten me?
Sorry I should have put that in the post – we won the vote – but sadly it was non binding on the government – BUT we are starting to put real pressure on this government over the ESA cut. Here is an article about it https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/tory-mps-just-begged-government-9279778#ICID=sharebar_twitter