Join in our Stop the Cheques
'virtual march' on the Treasury
25th July 2005

This month, the DM is opening a new front in our Stop the Cheques campaign, designed to put pressure on Gordon Brown to explain where the extravagant £42 billion (net) Tony Blair has promised the EU over the next seven years is actually going to come from.

With government borrowing already rising rapidly, Gordon Brown must explain whether he's going to add to his growing public deficit problems, or alternatively which public services he is going to cut, or taxes raise, to pay Blair's EU bills.

This can hardly be an inviting prospect for the man who hopes to become Britain's next Prime Minister.

And it's clear that he's thinking about this problem - it was recently revealed that he has been bitterly trying to un-pick aspects of the EU budget deal during final negotiations in Brussels.
[Daily Telegraph, 27 June 2006]

So on Saturday 29th July the DM is organising a 'virtual march' on the Treasury to demand an answer on the source of the money that Gordon Brown must hand over to the EU, starting next year.

Here's how to take part:

On Saturday 29 July, anytime after 12 noon, we'd like to ask you please to send an e-mail asking Gordon Brown where the £42 billion is going to come from, and demanding payments to the EU are stopped until we can be sure that public money is being protected from fraud - something that hasn't been possible now for eleven years running - to this HM Treasury e-mail address:

public.enquiries@hm-treasury.gsi.gov.uk

Please personalise your message a little if possible, asking a question on this topic of your own too, so that a personal rather than standard reply is required. This way, the Treasury will feel a greater burden from the protest. If you don't get a proper answer, e-mail the Treasury back and demand one.

If you can't send an e-mail on Saturday afternoon, please do it at the soonest convenient time afterwards. It's most important that they get as many messages of protest as possible.

Blair's concession will hit us all in the pocket and will mean less money available for public services on which we all depend. This issue affects everyone directly, whether they are interested in the EU issue or politics in general or not. So please forward this message to as many people as possible and encourage them to join in the protest too. Or send your own message to your address book referring your contacts to this web page using this direct link:

http://www.democracymovement.org.uk/march

Please let us know if you have any problems e-mailing the Treasury. We would also be most grateful for a copy of any reply you receive for our EU budget file - please forward to:
mail @ democracymovement.org.uk (without spaces)

Thank you for your support.