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Thursday Sep 10, 2009

lobby lobby lobby

So I thought it time to elaborate on the political side of my introduction.

I want to be an environmental lawyer, and also an effective campaigner, there's no point wasting my time being ineffective is there?! So, I'm afraid politics is the key to that. In my gap year I decided I'd rather learn about the ins and outs of our political system first hand rather from a book- which I'm far less likely to remember!

I spent 2 weeks in my MP's Parliamentary office, which was amazing, so interesting. And then 2 months working for senior Lib Dem MP Simon Hughes, who just so happens to be the shadow minister for energy and climate change! With these experiences under my belt, I thought I should collate the knowledge I gleaned in that time, into one big handy toolkit on how EFFECTIVELY lobby your MP.

Now I'm not going to put the whole thing here because it's a bit long! But you can cast a a glance over it on my blog, or email at wizzabel-AT-hotmail-DOT-com and ask for me the lovely PDF version which you can have and then forward as much as you like.

Hope you like it, and as always send me suggestions or nuggets of info that you have found work.

Posted by Isabel ( 9:54 AM )
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