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- 2006 - The Big Ask year in pictures
- A gentle introduction to The Big Ask
- Are You Such a Dreamer to put the World To Rights?
- Big Ask at Wychwood Festival 2006
- Big Ask, Big Month, Big Lobby draws to a close.
- Big Ask. Big Month. Big Lobby.
- Big names back The Big Ask
- Cameron backs Climate Bill
- Carbon Dating
- Climate Summer of Action in London
- Department for Transport failing on climate change
- Friends of the Earth yacht sets sail
- Government fails to rethink aviation policy
- Happy Birthday to The Big Ask
- How Hazel 'did something' about climate change
- I Count Rally in Trafalgar Square
- Join us at I Count
- Kaiser Chiefs back The Big Ask
- Lobbying your MP
- Pie in the Sky
- Razorlight support The Big Ask: how about you?
- Rethink! campaign launched
- Spreading the word
- The Accidental Lobbyist
- The Big Ask at Fruitstock
- The Big Ask at Summer Sundae
- The Big Ask Climate Debate
- The Big Ask hits Cardiff
- The Big Ask hits Manchester
- The Big Ask in the office
- The Big Ask? Labour Answers
- The Big Month hits halfway
- The Big Month in Action
- The Big Month trial run
- They Think It's All Over
- Thom Yorke plays The Big Ask Live
- Thom Yorke plays The Big Ask Live
- Tyndall report outlines UK route to low carbon economy
- Worth the wait
- Young campaigners lobby Tony Blair over climate change
The Accidental Lobbyist 1 August 2006
Kim Power supports the Big Ask
Canvey Island's Kim Power phoned up the office of his local representative, Bob Spink MP to arrange a meeting in September for The Big Ask. Big Month. Big Lobby. Here's what happened.
I phoned up his office, and he answered. He asked me why I wanted to meet him, and I told him about The Big Ask campaign. He agreed to write to Tony Blair and David Miliband right there on the phone.
Later that week, Kim received a copy from Bob Spink of the letter he had written to Tony Blair - see below.
Bob Spink MP's letter to Tony Blair
See the letter in full (PDF† - 70K)
I make this request because it is right and necessary to save our planet....I urge you to include the essence of EDM 178 proposed by Michael Meacher MP into the Queen's speech this year.
Bob Spink MP
It can, at least sometimes, be that easy. The Big Month runs from 12 September - 11 October.
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