Racialist Abuse At Sports Grounds

EDM number 1373 in 1989-90, proposed by Tom Pendry on 15/10/1990.

That this House welcomes the efforts being made by football clubs to combat racism on the football terraces; believes that such bigoted behaviour is unacceptable both to our black sportsmen and women and to the overwhelming majority of sports fans; maintains that racism has no place in a civilised society and should be acted against at every opportunity; considers that the efforts being made to do so are hampered by the absence of specific legislation with regard to racist chants at sports events; notes Lord Justice Taylor's recommendation that it be made a specific offence to chant racialist abuse at a designated sportsground and the comments of the Home Secretary made in the House on 29th January, Official Report, column 21, that the Government would look 'carefully and quickly' at this recommendation; regrets that to date the Government has not brought forward specific proposals to implement this measure; and calls upon the Home Secretary to honour his commitment to act on this area as a matter of the utmost priority.

This motion has been ammended, see 461A1.

This motion has been signed by a total of 72 MPs, 1 of these signatures have been withdrawn.