Find your MEPs' contact details here (you will have several). Write to them all to let them know what you think.
Dear (YOUR MEP'S NAME HERE),
Fifty-two per cent of voters in this country voted to commit economic suicide. Many of them did so because they have been screwed over by the current government. Many of them did so because of beautiful lies they were told by a Leave campaign that was fuelled by political ambitions of people who have never had to work.
The people who propagated those lies knew they were lies. They did not care. This was never real to them. They thought it was a game. They thought it was a popularity contest.
The poor, who are already suffering under Tory austerity, will be hit hardest by the economic devastation caused by this decision.
Not only have we voted to commit economic suicide, we've also handed the country to the far right. Immigrants and people of colour are being attacked and degraded because we have legitimised racism and xenophobia.
Democracy is a constantly evolving beast. One minute we vote for something, the next we change our minds. That is how democracy works. If we don't like the result of a vote, we are free to petition, campaign, and speak out against it. That is how democracy works.
This referendum is not democracy in action; this is democracy on steroids. In an election, the results can be reversed, they can be repealed. A few years later we do it all again and we make a different decision. Not this time. If we do not fight this, it will be irreversible.
There will be no more UK. Scotland will leave. Northern Ireland will break away. London will no longer be the financial capital of Europe — and if you don't think that's a bad thing, you must not know how much tax they (IF YOU WORK IN THE FINANCE SECTOR TO, CHANGE 'THEY' TO 'WE') pay. The price of everything will increase while wages go down — at least for the few lucky enough to have a job. We will have to wave goodbye to our workers' right. We will kiss our human rights goodbye.
As one of the MEPs representing me in the European Parliament, you are beholden to carry this message to them. They must be informed that this is not over yet.
Thank you.
Yours sincerely,
(Full name)
(Full address)
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