NOVANEWS
Dear All,
Yesterday Health Minister Simon Burns compared 38 Degrees members to zombies – for emailing our own MPs about risks to the NHS!
Have a look at a video clip of what he said about us all:
Minutes after Mr Burns spoke, 38 Degrees members started to respond:
– Sarah: So, anyone that disagrees with his policies and joins together in a democratic group to ask OUR representatives to represent us is ‘zombie-like’? Charming!
– Patrick: He finds us frightening due to the backtracks they’ve had to make recently (BSkyB, Forests, Mega Dairy). This just shows it’s working.
– Monika: Gosh, those politicians must hate the internet by now…the ‘plebs’ have a medium where they can raise their voices even after elections, it must be so annoying for them.
– Martyn: whereas MPs who slavisly follow the party line are full of life?
Let’s stand together to show Mr Burns that we’re citizens, not zombies. If thousands of us sign an open letter standing up for our right to be heard, we can publish it as an advert in a national newspaper and deliver it to Mr Burns personally in his constituency.
Add your name to the open letter to Mr Burns now:
https://secure.38degrees.org.uk/im-not-a-zombie
It shouldn’t matter who you vote for or what opinion you hold. It’s still an MP’s job to listen to their voters. Our taxes pay their wages, after all!
38 Degrees has only been around for a couple of years. But already there are more than 950,000 of us. By working together we’ve helped change events for the better – like protecting our woodlands, stopping Rupert Murdoch, and standing up for our NHS.
It’s clear that when we work together, it rattles those in power – they’d rather we left them alone! They know that if enough of us stand together the days of politicians ignoring us and letting us down could be numbered.
So let’s tell Simon Burns we’re not zombies, we’re citizens standing up for what we believe in:
https://secure.38degrees.org.uk/im-not-a-zombie
Thanks for being involved,
David, Marie, Becky, Hannah, Johnny, Cian and the 38 Degrees team
PS: Could you tell the difference between zombies and 38 Degrees members? Have a go at Zombie ID training, and see if you pass the test: https://secure.38degrees.org.uk/zombie-id-training
