Dear friends, I expect you know that this week is critical because of a number of proposals going through Parliament. This link explains where we're at: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/may/05/labour-peers-accuse-corbyn-brexit-cowardice The Labour Lords can ease our way to a more democratic and open position on (Stop) Brexit, if they support amendments now proposed by Lord Andrew Adonis and others. I have therefore emailed all the Labour Lords for whom I can find email addresses* to tell them about our petition, and to remind them that 16,000+ is a lot of signatures. (*For Lords email addresses see https://www.parliament.uk/mps-lords-and-offices/lords/) The Open Britain campaign is very much involved in this week's development and they are asking everyone to support their work to ensure the Labour Lords know the strength of feeling on this matter. I hope that you too will please add your name to the campaign: https://www.open-britain.co.uk/email_the_lords (There is a pro forma letter with this link just to sign and send if you are very busy today.) Thank you as ever for your help and support with our petition - every 'small' contribution to the overall message is important, whether another signature, an email, even just a Tweet or FB post. I will keep the petition going for a while longer before we present it formally, so we can continue to demonstrate how strongly people feel about #StopBrexit. Best wishes, Hilary