I have been prodded into action on the keyboard again. This time after reading former HT Aylesbury member Kester Brewin's blog post, "If There’s One Single Issue You Should Vote On, It’s This…", I noticed Christian Aid have a campaign on Global Poverty and make it rather easy to write to your parliamentary candidates.

So, I clicked the link, tailored the ready made email and sent it off to:-

• Mr Stephen Lambert,
• Mr David Lidington, and 
• Ms Kathryn White.

My concerns were:-

• that the gap between rich and poor has continued to grow for as long as I can remember and
• that poverty affects everything else for example: health, life expectancy, educational achievement.... This list of factors highly correlated with poverty is endless. 
• I specifically asked about global corporate tax dodging and climate change.

As I said at the end of the email, I look forward to their responses which I will be pleased to reflect as replies to this message.

Now, I guess if a load of HT people were to do something similar (and reflect their conversations in these pages in a similar way) there would be two obvious routes to follow.

1. If your single important question for the candidates is global poverty and the Christian Aid  campaign, simply do it and register that fact here with a reply to this message.
2. If your single important question for the candidates is different, then create a new message (like this but different) describing the issue and the questions you put to the candidates.

If there are enough messages to make it worthwhile, I would be pleased to move them across to a separate forum, "UK Election 2010".