If you invite them #5

The Open Letter has now gone out to all MPs in the country, courtesy of Head Office's Media Team.

In London, update on MPs who've signed:

Sarah Teather MP, Brent East - SIGNED
Dawn Butler MP, Brent South - SIGNED
Vincent Cable MP, Twickenham - SIGNED
Susan Kramer MP, Richmond - SIGNED
Mark Field MP, Cities of London & Westminster - [NEW 18/09/2006] - SIGNED
[that's the 3 main parties covered now]

Glenda Jackson MP, Hampstead & Highgate - approached and happy in principle. Waiting for official confirmation.
Frank Dobson MP, Holborn & St. Pancras - to be approached end September

Lynne Featherstone MP, Hornsey & Wood Green - approached by Tottenham group - waiting for feedback
Meg Hillier MP, Hackney South & Shoreditch - approached by Hackney & Tower Hamlets group - waiting for feedback
Andrew Slaughter MP, Ealing, Acton & Shepherd's Bush - approached by Hammersmith & Fulham - waiting for feedback
Ed Davey MP, Kingston & Surbiton - to be approached by Kingston FoE


Feel like a spider at the moment, waiting in the middle of a vast web of people. I keep testing strands of the web, checking which ones need repairing, which ones have caught interesting morsels.

Sometimes the strands get tangled when a confusing wind blows through. But if we use all of our senses we can divine patterns and intuit understanding. All strands lead to the same destination after all.

There was a newspaper report the other day, warning that spider breeding season is upon us. The report said that there'd be more big fat spiders around, as fewer died in the mild winter, and recent rain and shine have given them plenty of bloated insects to eat.

Giant spiders prowl the streets of London due to Climate Change, hiding in our baths, in the arm of a cardigan, under the cushion we threw on the sofa the other day, behind a cereal packet. They're creeping, running - scuttling - around us, crawling on hairy legs.

I once said that "every hobby is a lobby", meaning that you can get any interest group hooked into Climate Change if you can hook Climate Change into their hobby. I'm not sure what catchy phrase to use for linking phobias to action on Climate Change.

But giant spiders scuttling through the living spaces of Londoners' flats and homes and houses and studio apartments and bathrooms and kitchens and bedrooms - that must surely be a massive reason to take action.

It's an ill wind that blows an eight-legged climate freak.