Email #15

Dear Harriet

Today I received a response from your office.  I am grateful for this as it is good to know that my emails are being read and that my voice is being heard-that was the point of this afterall!

I do think that my campaign has been misunderstood- it was not about the leadership election per se.

Today 35 MPs stood up for grassroots members and nominated Jeremy Corbyn.  You have no idea how grateful we are for this; for many this was Labour's "Last Chance Saloon".

This is only one battle in a very long fight.  Five years lay ahead for us and many of us dont know what it will bring.  Our only hope is an end to austerity and an end to welfare reform.  Making sure we have a leader on our side is only part of that.

For now, in this interim period before we have our leader, we have you: our interim leader.  So my email campaign must continue because you are our voice in parliament.  My story is not one isolated story: my story is being played out up and down the country in millions of homes.  Our lives are affected by Conservative policy every day.  No just on days when nominations are being cast or when elections are being held. 

We need you to listen to us, not just about the leadership campaign but all the time you are our voice in parliament.

So for now, I am going to keep up my campaign, because Labour MUST support us in parliament and speak up and speak out against austerity and welfare reforms, against the proposed changes to the Human Rights legislation and against the harmful legislations Cameron intends to pass during his "100 days".

Consituent, Labour Party member, Union member, sleep deprived carer, concerned citizen, self employed mother, mother of a teenager with ASD, socialist, environmentalist, Disabled Rights supporter, Jeremy Corbyn supporter, mother feeding her children with nectar points, defender of the vulnerable, advocate, logistics savant, concerned niece, grassroots activist