UK folk: time-sensitive write-to-your-MP task on disability rights

[kaberett]

As discussed by rydra_wong, tomorrow afternoon Inclusion London and Disabled People Against The Cuts are hosting a briefing and discussion session regarding the UN finding that the UK government was engaging in grave and systematic violations of the rights of disabled people.

You can use WriteToThem to find, and write to, your MP, in order to draw this session to their attention and urge them to attend. The event details are:

Grave and systematic violations – What next after the UN disability inquiry? Briefing and Discussion
Committee Room 12, Houses of Parliament
2.30 – 3.45pm Tuesday 24th January 2017

My letter specifically pulls my MP up on his comprehensive failure to respond to my previous e-mail to him so will be of limited use, but just in case:

Dear [MP],

I was disappointed to receive no response to my previous correspondence (dated 05/12/16) [] on the topic of the UN enquiry into the rights of disabled people in the UK[1]. In said letter I provided several references to studies produced by respected bodies corroborating the UN's findings that the UK government was -- and is -- committing in grave and systematic violations of the rights of disabled people.

I brought to your attention the eleven recommendations made by the report, and emphasised that as your constituent, I hoped that you would support implementation of these recommendations. I indicated clearly that I hoped to hear from you regarding your intentions on this topic.

I now wish to bring to your attention a briefing and discussion occurring at the Houses of Parliament tomorrow afternoon. The details are as follows:

Grave and systematic violations – What next after the UN disability inquiry? Briefing and Discussion
Committee Room 12, Houses of Parliament
2.30 – 3.45pm Tuesday 24th January 2017

Please let me know whether you attend, and please also let me know what action, if any, you intend to take with respect to the eleven UN recommendations.

Yours sincerely,

[me]

[1] http://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/CRPD/Pages/InquiryProcedure.aspx

(If any of you have the cope to adapt this for spoonlessactivists, please by all means go ahead and do so.)

Comments

[cosmolinguist]

Would it be okay to share this on twitter?

[kaberett]

Yes. ♥

[cosmolinguist]

Several people have told me they did this because they saw the tweet. <3

[watersword]

This is a fab letter and I am imagining the look on your MP's staffer's face with deep schadenfreude.

[kaberett]

Alas on rereading it is more typos and less polished than I'd like, but hey, today is Not A Good Day, there's a tight turnaround, and one does what one can :-/

[kaberett]

(if I'm going to be engaging with Tories I generally try to bring all of my class privilege to bat; I fell down on that one here, but there we go. at some point I will actually show up in person and see how uncomfortable I can make him by just STARING at him.)

[watersword]

oh god please liveblog this.

[sporky_rat]

I did that once! Not with Tories but with a Republican who had the audacity to tell me that I was 'beneath him'.

Just because I'm poorer than dirt doesn't mean I'm not a higher social class.

[littlebutfierce]

I have sent my MP an email about this! Thank you for the heads-up.

[milkymoon]

Sharing on Twitter!

[davidgillon]

Tweeted and FBd, though probably too last minute for much effect.