The most ambitious voter contact programme in British political history will be getting off the ground this weekend. The first wave of a total of 50 phonebanks will be open in cities across the United Kingdom.

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The campaign for Yes to Fairer Votes for the Referendum on May 5th on the voting system used for Westminster elections.

140,000 already signed up

Saturday 4th December will go down in history as the day it started. Already 140,000 people have signed up to help the campaign. I am proud to be one of them.

This campaign truly is one from the grassroots up. If you can give the campaign any of your time, please do. Click here to sign up to the campaign, and your local regional organiser will be in touch soon to arrange a time that is convenient for you to come and see the phonebank operation with your own eyes.

Unlike the NO2AV campaign which seems dedicated to telling us who their MP patrons are, the Yes campaign is starting the real work of contacting more voters than all the political parties combined managed in the general election earlier this year.

Armchair activists welcome too

If you are not able to travel to the major town or city that has your local phone bank, don’t worry – from mid January there will be a virtual phonebank so that you can help from the comfort of your own armchair.

Related Articles

• 50 phonebanks to give massive boost to grassroots Yes to Fairer Votes campaign (libdemvoice.org)
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• Yes to fairer votes, but yes to more coherence and a better discourse (jonworth.eu)