Our Future
Hi SAVE ME folks. Brian here.
I'm still not the most confident user of Facebook - but mainly because I've been applying myself to developing the campaign in all the other areas this week. So this message is still coming through the admin channel of SAVE ME (and on the Main Site). We're all amazed at the continuing growth and activity of the site. Well done ALL! For me it's particularly exciting, since I've never done this before - it's like watching your child learning to walk. I think the community is very healthy... and although the occasional posts from Hunt supporters can be mildly annoying, I urge you to leave this door open. It's very revealing... without those few thorns, we'd be less able to appreciate the roses. And, like I said, it is sharpening us up as a team.
You've probably seen the new stuff on the Main SAVE ME site... but if not, please visit again. The chart of HOW THEY STAND is taking shape - information to help us all decide how to use our vote when the moment comes. We have a growing selection of links to great sites concerned with the same issues we are championing here. And my Lame Claims File is finally up. LCF is something I worked on for a long time, with expert advice. It now contains answers to ANYTHING a Hunt protagonist can throw at you... I hope you'll all keep it handy for when you need to stand up for the cause. There is NO argument that holds water which can justify the cruelty of a Hunt. From now on, when the old lame arguments come up, we can just say... "oh yes... LCF number 5"! Or whatever.
THE QUEST FOR INFORMATION
You've all been brilliant at probing your local candidates. Thank you SO much. As we expected, most of the Pro-hunt guys have simply refused to reply (Spineless !! Do they believe in their policies or not??! ) So we are completing the chart to include these conspicuous gaps, unless there is information out there. We're still grateful for any information, and will continue to update right up until May 6th. However, this activity will now tail off, as the chart nears completion. So what are we going to ask you to do next ?
THE NEXT THING
Help us spread the news the old-fashioned way. We all have windows, doors, walls, car bumpers, car rear windows, etc. Let's make them work for us, and for our wild animals. We now have PDF's on the Main SAVE ME site which are easily printable - so you can use the SAVE ME art-work to create posters, bumper stickers, flyers, leaflets at will. Please do that !! Print up loads of them, and get creative about where you put them. Your local restaurant may be amenable to having a poster on the wall ... shops, too, may be helpful - but always get the required permission. Please steer clear of fly-posting. It's illegal, plus there are plenty of other people out there who will go to great lengths to protect their 'Turf'. Just do legal stuff, OK ? But PLEASE go for it. And enlist helpers to distribute them. I'm looking forward to driving around and seeing our fox emblem on passing vehicles ...
The name of the game is still VISIBILITY. There are hundreds of thousands of people out there, decent people, who are heading for the polling booths to vote for, say, their smiling local Tory, with ABSOLUTELY NO IDEA that the guy is going to help bring back blood-sports. I continually see people so shocked to hear this. So there is a huge amount of work to do in the next couple of weeks. We're not telling people how to vote... we're just making sure that they know what the likely effect of their vote will be. Of course the big approaching question is: "Are we voting for a local man to represent our views, or are we voting tactically to ensure the PARTY gets in which best serves our will ?"
We'd be very interested to hear from anyone who has a strong insight into this question. Obviously the Labour Party and the Green Party are closest in spirit overall to the views of our community. Also fairly obviously the event of a Tory majority would be a tragedy for wild animals. But there are some individual passionate and sincere anti-hunt Conservatives out there too - do we vote for them ? The Libdems ? Well, it's hard to gauge that one, because their views on animal legislation are so divergent. Right now, I do not have a simple answer as to how to stop Cameron's plans to bring back barbarity. But by Election Day things may be very different. It's disappointing that no question on blood sports has been asked in the TV debates. We do not know why. It's almost as if there is a conspiracy to stop this very touchy issue from being debated on TV. But I'd prefer not to believe that. Perhaps it will happen in the last of the three debates. Meanwhile, we will have to work all the harder to bring this issue to the fore. Strangely enough, a local pro-hunt councillor may have provided the golden key to open the door we are knocking on; Mr. David Parsons may just turn out, in retrospect, to be the best friend we ever had!!
Let's go out there in the sunshine with renewed vigour!
Cheers!
Bri
