Conduct Of The Hon Members For Carrick, Cumnock And Doon Valley And Glasgow Cathcart

EDM number 139 in 1992-93, proposed by Alex Salmond on 21/05/1992.

That this House notes with incredulity the decision of the honourable Members for Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley and Glasgow, Cathcart, to vote against the 'I Spy Strangers' Motion on 20th May, proposed by the honourable Member for Dundee East; contrasts their voting record on this occasion with the statement made immediately after the 1983 General Election in which the honourable Member for Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley said that the Scottish Secretary had no mandate in Scotland and urged his Labour colleagues to join with him in making the job of the Scottish Secretary 'impossible and untenable'; recalls that he and the honourable Member for Glasgow, Cathcart advocated a campaign of parliamentary guerrilla disruption as a legitimate tactic in challenging the Government's mandate to rule Scotland, and were described as Labour's 'Dogs of War'; and questions what has changed over the last nine years save the honourable Gentlemen's own positions within the Labour Party, and that the Conservative Party have fewer votes and 10 less seats in Scotland than in 1983.

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