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Where do we want to go tomorrow? (7 June 1999)

Thanks to the hard work of a great many people news of the European Telecommunications Boycott got everywhere. By far our most important broadcast was on the BBC World Service; we had direct contacts from journalists as far away as India.

The Boycott over ... where next?

As it turns out the next great set-piece event is very soon - on Wednesday 9 June at 1300 - when there'll be a debate on telecommunications charging in the House of Commons. The MP moving the debate is Steven Webb, the Liberal Democrat Member for Northavon.

The debate is timetabled to last half an hour, and the format is that Mr Webb speaks for fifteen minutes or so, then the Government responds (through Michael Wills, the Minister for Small Firms) for a similar length of time, with other people allowed ten-second 'interventions'.

To help cement CUT into the Parliamentary map, we ask that you contact your MP and make them aware of the issues. Our Lobbying page gives details of how to do this and contains a sample letter to get you started.

Quite apart from that, there's much to do and much to investigate and the Committee is almost doubling in size from five to nine people to accommodate this. We'll tell you more after the first meeting tonight of 'CUT v2.0'.

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