#DeniedMyVote

Dear Supporter

Last week we launched our manifesto for the rights of EU citizens and Britons abroad at an event at Pushkin House in London. 

The venue was the perfect backdrop for what we wanted to do, which was to bring together the passion, the energy, the inspiration and the commitment of the suffragette movement and connect this with the fight for the rights of #the5million.

Like the suffragettes, EU citizens in the UK and Britons abroad do not want to be treated as second class citizens.

#The5million do not want our rights taken away, our status changed, our votes denied.

Else Kvist, a New Europeans member who has been a leading campaigner in our #DeniedMyVote campaign made a great speech and afterwards put this short message on video for us -

Courage calls - Else Kvist - Watch here 

We will be sending more information about the campaign during the next few days but our main message is that there is still much that you can do to help us make an impact during the General Election.

We need you to contact the MP candidates in your area for example and ask them to pledge to support #the5million.

In the next 72 hours, we will be emailing you pledge cards, asking you to email the card to your candidates.

Ask your candidates to email you  asking them to email you back to say they support the pledge(s) and to make this known by sharing the pledge card on social media.

We also ask you to take note of the press conference we are organising on Tue, 10 December, Human Rights Day at the Press Club in Brussels.

Click here for more information

In front of an invited audience of MEPS, press contacts and civil rights campaigners, we will insist that citizens' rights issues are dealt with as a priority on both sides of the channel from the moment the new government in the UK takes office.

Our calls to courage include our call for a public inquiry into #DeniedMyVote, guarantees of the rights of #the5million including the right to vote in local elections and for a Green Card to safeguard and ring-fence current rights and status.

The scandalous disenfranchisement of 1.7m EU citizens and thousands of Britains abroad means that the new Government must be challenged to take compensatory measures.

We will renew our calls for the abolition of the 15 year rule that bars long-term Britons abroad from voting and for free citizenship for EU citizens in the UK so they can vote in General Elections.

It is vital that these calls to courage make as strong an impact as possible.

That is why it is important that we link up with campaigns such as #EmilyMatters which fight for the rights of all.

It is also the reason we need to keep funding our campaigns so that we can continue to do our best to secure positive outcomes.

Thank you once again for all your support - please consider making a further donation in these critical final days of the campaign so that we have the best chance of winning through.

Citizens should not be paying the price of Brexit or of an incompetent ad/or manipulative government that refuses to safeguard their rights.

Take courage from the campaign energy of the suffragettes as it resonates into our campaign and please take steps to contact your candidates about these issues.

Please also continue to chip in to our campaign.

With best regards

ROGER CASALE

Founder and CEO, New Europeans