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One Day Sales

EDM number 542 in 1996-97, proposed by Gordon Prentice on 17/02/1997.

That this House believes the law regulating one day sales is totally inadequate in that it provides no proper protection for the public who can be persuaded by trickery, deceit and sometimes intimidation to pay good money for worthless rubbish and that the goods are often handed over in taped black binliners with instructions that they should not be opened while the sale is in progress; notes that on Sunday evening, 16th February, at the Marsden Community Hall, Nelson, a Mr Terry Green of Table Top Sales of Abbey Court, Abbey Road, Torquay, physically threatened and verbally abused the honourable Member for Pendle who turned up to warn constituents of the dangers of one day sales; congratulates Councillors Fred Hartley, Gary Rowland, Martin Short and Colin Waite for their stout support for the honourable Member and the local community; applauds the good sense of the people of Marsden ward who gave absolutely no support or encouragement to the cheat and fraudster Terry Green; and notes Mr Green was forced to abandon the sale after nine minutes having sold four video tapes for ú2 and some radios for 50p and before the expensive, branded goods such as Hitachi and Casio TVs were offered up and sold to accomplices; and calls on the Government to take urgent action to protect the public from loathesome and despicable cheats such as Mr Green who prey on honest people who think they may be on to the bargain of a lifetime.

This motion has been signed by a total of 42 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Gordon Prentice17/02/1997PendleProposed
Colin Pickthall17/02/1997West LancashireSigned
Peter Pike17/02/1997BurnleySigned
Andrew Miller17/02/1997Ellesmere Port & NestonSigned
David Clelland17/02/1997Tyne BridgeSigned
Gerry Sutcliffe17/02/1997Bradford SouthSigned
Bill Michie18/02/1997Sheffield, HeeleySigned
Dennis Turner18/02/1997Wolverhampton South EastSigned
Hugh Bayley18/02/1997York, City ofSigned
Norman Godman18/02/1997Greenock and Port GlasgowSigned
Lawrence Cunliffe18/02/1997LeighSigned
Michael Connarty18/02/1997Falkirk EastSigned
Keith Bradley18/02/1997Manchester, WithingtonSigned
William McKelvey18/02/1997Kilmarnock & LoudounSigned
John McAllion18/02/1997Dundee EastSigned
Denis MacShane18/02/1997RotherhamSigned
Ken Livingstone18/02/1997Brent EastSigned
Roy Hughes18/02/1997Newport EastSigned
Ernie Ross18/02/1997Dundee WestSigned
Lynne Jones19/02/1997Birmingham, Selly OakSigned
Gerry Steinberg19/02/1997Durham, City ofSigned
Harry Barnes19/02/1997North East DerbyshireSigned
Andrew Faulds19/02/1997Warley EastSigned
Kenneth Eastham19/02/1997Manchester, BlackleySigned
Michael Clapham19/02/1997Barnsley West & PenistoneSigned
Helen Jackson19/02/1997Sheffield, HillsboroughSigned
Eric Illsley19/02/1997Barnsley CentralSigned
Tom Cox19/02/1997TootingSigned
Neil Gerrard20/02/1997WalthamstowSigned
Win Griffiths20/02/1997BridgendSigned
Jeff Ennis20/02/1997Barnsley EastSigned
Ian Davidson20/02/1997Glasgow, GovanSigned
Eric Clarke20/02/1997MidlothianSigned
Alan Meale20/02/1997MansfieldSigned
Rachel Squire20/02/1997Dunfermline WestSigned
Mike Hall24/02/1997Warrington SouthSigned
Llin Golding25/02/1997Newcastle-under-LymeSigned
Jack Thompson27/02/1997WansbeckSigned
Edward O'Hara05/03/1997Knowsley SouthSigned
Terry Davis05/03/1997Birmingham, Hodge HillSigned
Andrew MacKinlay10/03/1997ThurrockSigned
Martyn Jones18/03/1997Clwyd South WestSigned

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