Hello again,

Just to pick this up once more. 

Matthias, I take your point about the turnover of MEPs. But the sooner we get this out, the sooner people begin paying attention. If we wait for a perfect time - like some other groups - we will likely get lost in the noise. There's no reason we can't follow-up with newly elected MEPs in the summer. Also, I see what you mean about Big Ben potentially being misinterpreted. It's also not a great example as it would be out of copyright anyway, so am going to use a different image.

Bence - that was a useful spot, thank you. The updated version has the links as footnotes.

I'm going to make some changes to the letter today and I'm hoping to get the final version printed and sent by the end of the week.

Thanks and regards,

Stevie

On 14 March 2014 09:28, Stevie Benton <stevie.benton@wikimedia.org.uk> wrote:

Thank you everyone for your thoughtful comments. These will be taken into consideration for the final version of the letter which is likely to be printed and posted today.

Thanks and regards,

Stevie

On 14 March 2014 09:11, Mathias Schindler <mathias.schindler@wikimedia.de> wrote:

2014-03-14 9:54 GMT+01:00 Dimitar Parvanov Dimitrov
<dimitar.parvanov.dimitrov@gmail.com>:

> As to Mathias' comment on the MEPs: Yes, there will be some considerable
> turnover, but at the same time politicians are most likely to pay attention
> to such a thing before election time. Sending it out just to the ones we
> believe might get reelected would be - diplomatically speaking - bad
> diplomacy. Can't we just resend it after the elections to just the newly
> elected MEPs?

There is already too much bad diplomacy out there, so thanks for Dimis
argument. As you can see from
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Parliament_election,_2014_(United_Kingdom)#Current_MEPs_by_European_Political_Group,
the number of parties who did send MEPs to Brussels was considerable.
It would be possible to send such a letter to the parties before the
election and to the specific elected MEPs afterwards.

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