38 Degrees is facing its biggest ever threat.
The government's rushing through a new law which, if it passes, will stop us running the type
of campaigns which have made us who we are. [1] The campaigns which have saved our forests,
fought privatisation in the NHS, and defeated the snoopers' charter. [2] The campaigns which have
seen 1.7 million of us act together, locally and nationally, for over four years. In fact, if the new
law passes, and we continue campaigning as we do now, the office team could even risk being sent
to jail. [3]
The law's called the 'Transparency of Lobbying, Non-party Campaigning and Trade Union
Administration Bill'. And if it goes through without any changes, it'll wipe out our campaigning
by slashing what we can spend during the year before elections. Not just general elections,
either. Local elections, European elections and referendums, too. [4]
But if we act now and we act together, we could make the government reverse their plan. Chloe Smith,
the minister responsible for pushing this law through parliament, is coming under more and more
pressure to re-think. If hundreds of thousands of us speak up now, we could swing her decision.
Can you email Chloe Smith now to tell her why it's important that we're able to campaign during
elections, and what you think of her plans to stifle us? There's no template email, because it's really
important that Chloe Smith hears your personal reasons for being a member of 38 Degrees. Anything
you write to her now is better than her not hearing from us at all.
Click here to get started:
https://secure.38degrees.org.uk/lobbying-bill