I said:The final version of the letter is now online. Thanks for the suggestions:
<url:http://www.speedy5.freeserve.co.uk/danny/cycling/040127MP.html>
I got a reply yesterday: "Thank you for your letter of 27 January concerning Eric Martlew's Private
Member's Bill.
"Although I have been sympathetic to this proposal, I will consider very carefully what you say.
"However, the Second Reading of the Bill is down for 23 April and I have constituency engagements
that day which means that I will be unable to attend.
"Thank you for taking the time and trouble to write to me.
"Please do not hesitate to do so again at any time."
So my letter may have had no effect on the bill's success (although the cynic in me conjures up
images of an MP reading my letter and thinking: "I really don't want to be seen voting one way or
the other on this, lets book some alternative engagements"😉, but at least we have one MP who is now
better informed. It is worth noting that Roger Berry signed Alan Meale's EDM (a fact I didn't pick
up on before writing), so he clearly wasn't properly informed before!
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Danny Colyer (the UK company has been laughed out of my reply address)
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