SEND A MESSAGE TO YOUR MP ~ TIME IS RUNNING OUT!

The message is clear to your local MP and to all prospective Parliamentary candidates ~ ACT NOW!

I need to repeat my previous request and ask you to encourage everyone you know to write letters to MPs, MSPs, Peers and those prospective candidates hoping to win a seat at the General Election to make them aware of, and act against, the various EU Food Supplements Directive that threaten the natural healthcare industry. You have always responded well and caused quite a stir in the various political establishments.

It has always been the case that not everyone feels confident to write such letters, even short ones when we have provided examples. Many people just can’t think of what to say and our brief messages have sometimes failed to inspire.

This time, as in 2008 we have made it easy. The only thing that is needed to secure the politician’s attention is your signature and name and address. The simple message is splashed right across the new “Time is Running Out” postcards that are now hitting every health food shop across Britain as well as many Gyms, Fitness centres and Practitioner groups.

Bright, no nonsense black & white window posters cards invite everyone to collect their postcard to send on to their MP. No real work; just a name, a signature and a second-class stamp. It could not be easier to send such a powerful message. So call into your nearest health food shop and collect yours now!

Let me say now that it is hugely important that absolutely everyone fills in a post card, sticks on a stamp and sends it on its merry way to Westminster or other political centre. This may be the last role of the dice for vitamin & mineral supplement users and members of the public who care about freedom of choice to persuade all those in both the political and regulatory arenas to deliver what they promised - namely to keep our safe and effective supplements available for all - and at beneficial levels.

This “Time is Running Out” campaign builds on the activities not just of CHC, but also of Holland & Barrett and the National Association of Health Stores members, many of whom have used our display materials and briefing notes to great effect. You may also have been in store when they invited their MPs into the shop to explain in detail the key issues, such as the likely loss of higher dose food supplements - and the potentially serious damage to their businesses. Click here for more details

This support and real effort has been invaluable and we are enormously grateful to each of them.

Please don’t allow any of the postcards to be wasted. Every single card needs to be completed and posted. We want to deliver huge numbers to each Parliament; we want the internal postal systems in Westminster and elsewhere to creak and we want MPs irritated enough to take action.

Setting dose levels for vitamins and minerals is now top of the Brussels agenda. “Time is Running Out” so, send a strong message to your MP - and do it now!

Sue Croft ~ Director, Consumers for Health Choice