Tax Dodging Bill Campaign and Meeting with Catherine West

Hi all,

I hope you've been enjoying the few moments of sun recently!

I campaign with ActionAid and thought I'd do a post about the Tax Dodging Bill Campaign in the hope that some of you may be interested in getting more involved. It follows on from the Towns Against Tax Dodging Campaign with which I was involved and wrote a blog about my event Love Haringey Hate Tax Dodging. I'm not sure if the links work on here so you can find out more on the website: www.taxdodgingbill.org.uk

The Tax Dodging Bill Campaign, recently launched, is doing really well so far with over 50,000 supporters! For those of you who don't know - it's a coalition campaign with a whole range or organisations calling on the elected government to introduce a stand along piece of legislation, within the first 100 days of coming into power (The Tax Dodging Bill).

We recently organised a photo opportunity in Westminster for MP's to come and have their photo taken to show support. We had about 40 MPs come down with only around 48hrs notice! Here's a great blog written by Murray, the Tax Justice Campaign Manager at ActionAid, talking about how big the issue has become recently!

The next big ask for supporters is to contact prospective parliamentary candidates (those running to be MPs), asking them to contact their party leaders and show support for the bill ahead of the election. You can do this here via the website - it's really easy - you just type in your postcode and it's all ready to be sent.

For those of you who are even more interested were also trying to arrange meetings with candidates (under the 'Do More' tab) to ask them for their support in person - this is really important as it shows candidates that we, as constituents, care about how we are represented.

I've already been to a meeting in a small group, with Catherine West - running to be a Labour MP for Hornsey and Wood Green, and the meeting went really well. If anyone feels like coming to a meeting you can find a list of them on the website, or you can arrange your own and post it so that others can see and go with you. As the Local Coordinator for Haringey, I am happy to meet with anyone who wants to do this, and can go to the meeting with you. There will in fact be another meeting coming up with Gordon Peters, who is running to be a Green MP for Haringey. Will post this on the website for anyone who wants to come.