Week 11: Raising awareness #LBBill… the story so far #107days

Last week, Week 10, we asked the amazing collective of campaigners that make up #JusticeforLB for help. We asked you to tell your local MP about the #LBBill and ask for their support in the forthcoming Private Members Bill ballot on Thursday. We asked and you delivered, we couldn’t be prouder or more grateful for your response. This is what the #LBBill map currently looks like:

We know that the map gives a good overview, but that it’s hard for some of you to see whether your MP has been contacted. That’s ok because we’d like all MPs to be contacted as many times as possible, we think it’s important that MPs know their constituents are interested and keen to see the provision in the #LBBill enacted, so don’t worry about duplication, that’s a good thing.

We know now that 285 MPs (out of a total of 650) have been contacted about the #LBBill. It is only a week ago that we asked for your help, and what a response in a week. Of the 285 MPs who JusticeforLB’ers have contacted, 137 are Conservatives, 1 Green, 113 are Labour MPs, 4 Liberal Democrats, 4 Plaid Cymru, 25 are SNP and 1 is UKIP.

Not only have 285 MPs been contacted, but 84 of them have been contacted at least twice, 24 MPs three times, 8 MPs four times, 3 MPs (Caroline Lucas, Diane Abbott and Cat Smith) have been contacted at least five times and Paul Blomfield, MP for Sheffield Central has been contacted at least six times. We say at least because we’re aware that despite our best attempts we may have missed some contacts, or not know about them. That’s ok too because once we know who has a spot in the Private Members Bill ballot we’ll ask anyone who has contacted them (or lives in their constituency) to let us know.

So please keep contacting your MPs, if you’ve not had a chance yet please tweet them, email them or write to them. If you have contacted your MP please encourage a friend, family member or colleague to contact theirs. If you’d like a reminder of why the #LBBill is important, you can:

• read Sara’s post on what difference the LBBill would have made to LB here
• read John’s post on why the LBBill is important to him here
• read Steve’s post on why the LBBill covers more than the Care Act

If you’d rather watch a film, you can check out the introduction to the LBBill and where it came from here:

Finally, if you’d like to meet some of the people for whom the #LBBill could make a difference, then check out:

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