Hi my name is Howard the inventor of the Mosquito, I know that my device is being used unjustly but where it is used properly it has saved the tax payer thousands and transformed the lives of many.

I have always wanted legislation to ensure it is used appropriately and with your help I might get! I have been asked to manufacture a unit with a retail price of less than £100 although I stand to make a mint I know the potential trouble this could cause. If I stopped selling the Mosquito you can be sure that some one else far less scrupulous would. As for an Outright ban this is very unlikely and has been tried in the European Parliament, it failed spectacularly. I have met with Oli and he is broadly in agreement and with your help we can get this sorted once and for all. I only invented it when my own daughter couldn't enter the local shop because of a small group of anti social Teens that the Police failed to sort.

Its never been proved it's safe. And it won an Award?

In a United Kingdom survey of the responses of adults exposed to high frequency sound in an occupational context for the Health and Safety Executive in 2001, it was concluded that the studies were inadequate to establish guidelines for safe exposure. The Mosquito's manufacturer relies on these inconclusive adult studies to justify the safety of the device, a device aimed at the youth. We at Bite Back are calling on the Government to do a conclusive study on all age ranges, including toddlers and babies in the womb, to make sure that these devices are in fact safe.

We also would like someone to justify the giving of a IG Nobel Peace prize to the designers of the mosquito. The device isn't peaceful at all, it deliberately causes harm and discomfort, and causes division within communities.

Is there a Mosquito near you?

If there is a Mosquito near you we want to hear about it.

Use the contact form to tell us about mosquitoes in you area, you must tell us where it is (address and shop/organisations name). We are planning to put all the locations on a map, which will be made available on 1st March, you have until 28th February to get those locations in!

If you want to ask me, as campaign co-ordinator, a question about the campaign, then we have set up an ongoing question and answer page, so if there's you want to know post away, and don't forget you can use our feedback form on the contact us page.

Keep watching this space for some exciting news concerning the Campaigns progress, and our first guest blogger! We will be releasing the survey results in the next few weeks so keep your eye's peeled for them too.

So for now, if you want ask us questions then please do, keep watching for updates, and get your friends to follow the blog too!

Thanks for all the support, we making an impact and the boffins at the top are feeling the Bite, and our voices are finally being listened to on this issue.

Oli Phillips
Member of Youth Parliament - Staffordshire
National Co-Ordinator of Bite Back, Lets get the Mosquito Banned Campaign

Welcome!

Hello!

This is the new and official Bite Back blog page!

Keep tuning back in for Information on the campaign, and be sure to follow us.

In the next few weeks expect to see some MP's as guest blogger's on the main page, and loads of photos uploaded from the launch day in Parliament on the 17th February!

For those who have never heard a mosquito, a soundbite is available here.

The Bite Back campaign which aims to get rid of the Mosquito Teen Deterrent Device is really making progress. As I said before keep watching this page for updates, and opportunities to get involved.

If you want us to do some campaigning in your area, or would like to tell us about a particular device which is frustrating you and your mates, or if you would like to become a guest blogger, use the feedback form to send us a message.

Together we will get this device banned.
Thanks for Reading,

Oli Phillips
Member of Youth Parliament - Staffordshire
National Co-Ordinator of Bite Back, Lets get the Mosquito Banned Campaign