Riders Are Voters Mass Lobby – Preliminary report

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 [...]

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RAV Meets New Roads Minister

Less than two weeks after the formation of the new government, Mike Penning MP, the new Minister with responsibility for Britain’s roads at the Department for Transport invited ‘Riders Are Voters’ campaign organisers from the Motor Cycle Indusry, British Motorcyclists Federation and the Motorcycle Action Group to a high-level meeting with senior civil servants.
Nich Brown, [...]

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Riders in South Birmingham visited by Lib-Dem Candidates

Riders in South Birmingham were visited by two Lib Dem candidates last night.

(picture shows just a handful of the riders present, with Nicholas Lane on the extreme right and Martin Turner with the guitar)
The local MAG group meeting is held at the Royal Oak in Studley, which is on the boundary of the Redditch and [...]

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The RAV campaign continues to lobby at local level.

Last night in Huddersfield, MAG members and RAV supporters met with Barry Sheerman (Labour), who is seeking re-election to the Yorkshire constituency.
Over 30 riders came to what was the first RAV hustings where only one candidate was invited, at the Field Head PH.
Following some regrettable comments about motorcyclists that Mr Sheerman made last month, his [...]

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