Seniors coming to vote                   Protest at the Houses of Parliament     Grahame Leon-Smith casting his own vote

Seniors are important !

There are over 20 million seniors (age 50 or over) in the UK alone, representing 43% of the voting population !  If we work together, we are an incredibly powerful force, more than capable of persuading our Local Councillors, Members of Parliament and the Government to take our views seriously. The problem is that we are largely fragmented. Because we no longer work full-time, employers and trade unions consider us irrelevant, and we have few champions to fight the battles on our behalf.

Join our Campaign for Tele-Democracy

The great thing about the Internet is that it empowers individuals and groups to communicate and join together to achieve common aims. Seniors, just like anyone else, have the right to lobby their MPs both to express their views, and to say what they feel should be done to improve their quality of life. The Internet will you to make your voice heard much more effectively.

"Write to them" is a project of the registered charity, MySociety.org, which makes it easy for you to contact your elected representatives, Local Councillors, MP, MEPs (Members of the European Parliament), and if you live in Scotland or Wales your MSP (Member of the Scottish Parliament or MWA (Member of the Welsh Assembly). All you have to do is to type in your postcode and you will automatically see on screen the names of your District or Borough Councillors, Your County Councillor, Your MP and Your MEPs. Just click on the name of the representative you wish to write to, enter your details on the right-hand side, and then type your message in the box below. (You need to enter your details to confirm that you are writing to your own elected representative, who is obliged to reply to you.) When you have finished, press the "Preview your Message" button to check your message and correct any typing errors you may possibly have made, and finally click "Send".

It is a good idea to always start your message with: "As one of your constituents I am extremely concerned about . . ." and always ask your representative to do something specific, ie to say whether he will support what you are asking for or not and how he will do so. If you have entered an email address, ask your representative to reply to you by email. This is much quicker and cheaper (and don't forget that you as a taxpayer are paying for your representative's postage bill (several thousand pounds a year in the case of MPs), and it also means you can easily forward the reply to someone else, if you wish to.

We recommend that you always end your message with the phrase: "Your reply may well influence my vote at the next election," to indicate that you are serious about what you are asking your representative to do. Make your views known as forcefully as possible. This will make your representative think seriously about his or her response, as he or she may well need your vote in order to win the next election.

Now just click on Write to them to compose and send your message.