Got a message today about allotments in Guilford which are about to be built on. The message is copied below, and at this stage a petition is likely to be actually, practically useful. It's a legit "10 Downing Street" petition which asks for your name, e-mail and address, but this is only to verify that you're a real person and the only mail you'll get is notification of a government response if they issue one. Doesn't even involve getting cold and wet!
"We have been campaigning for many months to get our local council (Guildford Borough Council) to cancel housing plans on our local Allotment Site.
2 acres of woodland (some of it really ancient) and wildlife habitat are threatened by housing and being concreted over.
Oue message is that the part of Guildford where we live is already over-developed with Housing and we badly need to keep areas of open space to prevent our area becoming a concrete jungle.
And there are vast areas of brownfield land elsewhere in the town to build houses .. support us by signing our online petition today.
When you sign it you have to give your name and address but this will be kept confidential, all that visitors to the Petitions website can see is your name.
The address is: http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/allotmentsgfd
If you are keen on preserving the Environment, or saving Open Spaces, saving Wildflife habitats - or even Allotment Gardening - then take a look at our Allotment Self-Help Group's website and you'll see the site & read about the open space & everything we're fighting for. You can find it at:
http://members.lycos.co.uk/washa
Please do pass this message on to your friends and Allotment colleagues - we need all the help we can get.
Many thanks
David Bird
Allotment Buff & Petition Organiser"
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...but this is only to verify that you're a real person and the only mail you'll get is notification of a government response if they issue one...
Plus to add you to the "subversives" list for later rounding up and "re-education".
That sort of thing does occur to me too, but the more paranoid I feel the less I can get done. What I meant is that it won't, for instance, get you added to the SWP mailing list.
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