Please support the new law for carers

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For the Bill to become law we urgently need your help. Please contact your MP urgently and ask them to vote for better rights for carers and disabled people on the 7th of September. We need over one hundred MPs to be in Parliament and vote for the Bill.

Contact your MP and ask
Is he/she supporting the Bill?
Is he/she attending the Bill's Second Reading debate on the 7th of September?
Will he/she vote for better rights for carers and disabled people on the 7th of September?

Email your MP - We've drafted an email which you can use to send to your MP - just add their name, any personal experience you want to share and make sure your name and full address are included in your email. The draft email is attached. You can find more information about the Bill including the draft email at http://www.carersuk.org/get-involved

Call your MP - The Houses of Parliament switchboard is [COLOR=#00AFFD !important] 0207 219 3000. Just ask to be put through to your MP[/COLOR]

Tweet your MP - You can find out if your MP is on twitter at http://tweetminster.co.uk/mps

Or do all three.

If you're not sure who your MP is, you can check here http://findyourmp.parliament.uk/ You also can check your MP's email address on the Parliament site at http://www.parliament.uk/mps-lords-and-offices/mps/

Do you have a story to tell?
If you would be willing to talk to the media about your experience of difficulties accessing help or advice about caring, trying to find the right social care services that allow you to juggle work and care or a lack of support from your school or college, then do get in touch with us at chloe.wright@carersuk.org

Many thanks

Chloe Wright

Senior Policy and Public Affairs Officer
Carers UK

[Hurricane Puffrose]

Re: Please support the new law for carers

I live round the corner from our local MP.. i will ask him face to face!
He has a surgery on a Friday where he does the big benevolent rich man act, so I will stand up and ask him in front of everyone!! *evil chuckle*

[Inca]

Re: Please support the new law for carers

Definitely will do all that,,I'm disabled (MS),,and my beloved is my carer,,he gave up a good job so I was spared the 'strangers in the house'scenario,,and he gets the princely sum of £58.45 pw,,,it's shocking and unfair so any support we can give we will

[Hurricane Puffrose]

Re: Please support the new law for carers

So, I went in to the "surgery" (always sounds like they are gonna amputate something doesn't it) and Muppet Boy was going off about the "terrible noise pollution of motorbikes.. " etc etc etc (I really don't like the guy) and I stood up and said A question from someone with an elderly mother *gets shot the I am going to kill you look from Mum* Are you planning on voting in favour or greater rights for carers on 7th September, and will you stand up to the Government and attend the hearing?

Open mouthed and horrified MP sat there staring at me as though I had asked was he planning on reinstating Hitler,so I repeated my question louder! (I'm English, if they don't understand, SAY IT LOUDER!!)
A few old Biddies started to nod and murmmer "she's right, good question Our Lass!"

Muppet Boy looked as though if he could get away with it, he would call in the Taxidermist, and said "Well, if a significant amount of my constituants want me to..."
So rent-a-gob here said "Show of hands for who wants him to do his job?!" and everyone there did So it looks like our little village is going to be represented hun...

[Inca]

Re: Please support the new law for carers

The pleb who represents us is having a 'surgery' on Tuesday,,me and himself are going to pop in and ask the same question.(I would ask pleb to walk a mile in my shoes but I can't walk a mile so I will ask him to do the job that the fools round here elected him to do )