Compass Calls for all to Lobby MPs on EDM 191

This week our MPs return to Parliament after the Christmas recess and we must not allow the issue of high pay to go away. We need you to urgently call on your MP to sign up to EDM 191 in support of a High Pay Commission. Please take action now:

http://action.compassonline.org.uk/highpayedm

The noughties will be remembered as the decade we faced the biggest economic crash since the great depression, a crash significantly caused by the highest paid in our society. This is why our first campaign action of the new decade is to get 100 MPs signed up to EDM 191 in support of a High Pay Commission:

http://action.compassonline.org.uk/highpayedm

2009 ended on a positive note as the Chancellor enacted our policy of a one-off Bankers' Windfall Tax, a symbolic first step in the fight for a more equal society. But we need a more fundamental examination into the effects of excessive pay on our economy and society for the longer-term.

Over the Christmas break a Public Administration Select Committee report said excessive pay in the private sector was driving top pay in the public sector and called for a 'Top Pay Commission' for the public sector. However, as Polly Toynbee noted, the findings of this report show that we now need a High Pay Commission to look at all sectors.

So please contact your MP now if you haven't already and ask them to sign EDM 191 in favour of a High Pay Commission. Thanks to your pressure we now have the support of over 80 MPs but we need you to take action and help us get the 100 MPs we need to make a decisive impact. We've set up a quick and easy tool for you to do this - it will take less than 5 minutes, just click below to contact your MP.

http://action.compassonline.org.uk/highpayedm

Thanks for all your amazing work and support.

P.S If you haven't already, take a look at the new Tory Stories blog created by Jon Cruddas and Chuka Umunna. The site acts as a depository for evidence based articles on Conservatives in local and regional government, showing that, once in office, the party's actions consistently fail to match its rhetoric.

Joe Cox
Campaigns Organiser- Compass

http://www.compassonline.org.uk/

Joe Cox, 12/01/2010