TAKE ACTION – SPEAK UP NOW!
THE GOVERNMENT PLANS TO OVERTURN THE RESULTS OF SHEFFIELD’S REFERENDUM.
We are now (August 2025) running a short letter-writing campaign.
Write to your MP!
- Copy our template letter to the clipboard.
- Find your MP, click on the link to start an email, and paste the letter into the email.
- Adapt the letter to make it unique to you.
- Add your name and address to the email (your MP wont accept the letter if you don’t).
- Send the email.
We are asking Sheffield voters (and those elsewhere too) to write to their MP to help stop a democratic injustice.
Sheffield’s democratic decision in our referendum to decide the way our council works must be respected.
Legal promises given must not be broken. Sheffield cannot be forced back to the very same system that we have resoundingly rejected in a city-wide referendum.
Local areas and local people must retain rights to decide the way their council works, AND to choose the more democratic committee system. The government dictating its own preferences to local areas is not devolution, and it does not protect and value local democracy.
It will be MPs who decide whether the damaging proposals in Section 57 of the English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill pass into law. Citizen voices DO make a difference.
Please write to your MP now. Download, use, or adapt our template letter.
Ask friends, neighbours, family and local community groups to write too, to protect and defend our democratic rights and to stop government forcing Sheffield back to damaging and undemocratic ‘strong leader’ council governance