Thank you so much to everyone who emailed 5 friends about the Home Office’s anti-family income rules, as part of Day Two’s action. Social media is also such an important tool for spreading the word, and today’s action is super simple: share a message about the campaign, and why you support it, on social media. This could be on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram or whatever other platforms you might use.
There are some suggested posts below, which you can just copy and paste to post. They include a link to help people write to their MP. Of course, please do freestyle if you want to – just be sure to include that link, which is www.jcwi.org.uk/scrapMIRnow.
If you’re writing your own post, you could include links to recent news articles about the MIR, for example:
Barbara’s story – Barbara is an NHS cancer care co-ordinator, but she’s had to take on a second frontline job in order to meet the Home Office’s income requirement. She is pregnant, and doesn’t want to have to give birth alo…