Pictured: A handful of the Riders that attended the Mass Lobby in the Boothroyd room at Portcullis House, after the meeting.

Almost 100 Riders registered to attend the Riders are Voters Mass Lobby of Parliament on 8th November. Meetings with individual MP’s ran from 10am until 6pm, throughout the day.

The Parliamentary Motorcycle Group had booked a two hour slot in the Boothroyd Room at Portcullis House and there was much coming and going as MP’s came to meet their constituents who had made appointments to meet with them.

Various MP’s also dropped in and spoke to the meeting, including: Stephen Pound MP, Steven Baker MP,  Sarah Newton MP and Anne Main MP (St Albans) who sponsored the event. Members of the House re-iterated the importance of us getting our message out to all politicians whether at a local or national level and applauded the work of Riders Are Voters.

Riders attended from as far away as Cornwall and Edinburgh and we would like to extend our sincere thanks to everybody who made the effort to come along and meet with their MP’s.

Members of both Houses of Parliament, Motorcycle Industry chiefs and those involved with motorcycle sport, listened intently as he introduced them to the RAV concept of unity within the motorcycle community and he even got a standing ovation at the end, though that was primarily because there weren’t any chairs!

Bradley Smith (pictured), runner up in the 2009 125 Moto GP and Britain’s great hope as GP World Champion, also addressed the gathering explaining the importance of attracting and involving the youth to motorcycling. He too applauded the idea of the whole industry working as a single united voice for motorcycle recognition.

Many thanks to Paul Blezzard for the photo