During the past few days we have been on the virtual campaign trail in support of Funts – financial untouchables – lobbying prospective parliamentary candidates for their support of improved legislation for a fairer treatment of people that fall into debt.  We have created an opportunity to get personal debt issues back on the political map.

This is how you can make a difference and spread the word.

Our recent survey shows that a  scandalously small number of parliamentary candidates are interested in changing the law to help people in personal debt (14%).

And there is a huge variation between the parties too with (this surprised us) the LibDems being by far the least responsive of all the major parties (7%: Labour – 20% and Conservative – 15%).

Of the 358 parliamentary candidates that did answer, more than nine out of ten were in favour of law changes that would help people with debt problems. Read the full findings of the politicians survey about debt.

If you support our efforts to get the real debt noticed by Britons politicians please read on.

Spread the word:

1. Recommend this to your friends on Facebook.

2. Hit this Twitter button to spread the word.

Want to contact your local candidate? Great, there are lots of ways to identify who are your prospective candidates. We recommend you use the excellent services publically available  such as Tweetminster, the BBC UK election, YourNextMP.

Go the whole hog and email them? Excellent, we can help you.

3. Email your candidate

As a start here´s some text which you are welcome to copy and paste into your email.

I am one of your constituents. Like 11% of your voters, I have had a hard time struggling with personal debt – and without much help from government. I can’t understand why only one in seven parliamentary candidates like you could be bothered to show their support for initiatives that will help encourage people in debt to do something about it and which will prevent future discrimination by the banks and credit card companies. Your party’s consumer debt policy seems to be all about helping people to avoid debt in the first place and to do nothing for the millions that are in debt up to their necks and can’t cope. Please will you show your support for this important, and huge, group of voters by leaving a comment on this blog: http://bit.ly/funts (Your responses will be broadcast across the web through Facebook and Twitter – so other voters will see it). You might even want to challenge your fellow candidates on the issue. If you want the latest facts about debt where you are standing, you can find them here: http://bit.ly/UKDebtData1 Please help us. People in debt are amongst the most overlooked groups in Britain – it’s all well and good changing laws to help prevent overindebtedness, but there are millions of taxpayers whose personal financial situation is in danger of collapse over the next couple of years. Our economic revival is dependent on consumer spending. Do you really want a flood of bankruptcies?

Be warned though, your prospective candidates are very busy people just right now, but remember they need your vote and that´s one thing we can all be clear about.

Questions? Leave them below in the comments.

Thanks for your support.