County Town Of Somerset
EDM number 1524 in 1997-98, proposed by Jackie Ballard on 07/07/1998.
That this House deplores remarks made by Jonathan Meades in The Times Magazine of Saturday 4th July regarding the people and town of Taunton; knows that Taunton is the county town of Somerset and it has many natural and man-made assets including the River Tone and the recently enhanced, thriving town centre; recognises that Taunton is at the heart of a rural community and is also the home of Somerset county cricket, the Charity Commissioners, the United Kingdom Hydrographic Office, The Castle Hotel and many other nationally known organisations and businesses; and calls on Mr Meades to apologise specifically to the people of the Somerset levels and the Blackdown Hills for his obscene and offensive comments and to the people of Somerset for his unwarranted slur on their county town.
This motion has been signed by a total of 11 MPs.
MP | Date | Constituency | Party | Type |
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Jackie Ballard | 07/07/1998 | Taunton | Liberal Democrat | Proposed |
Adrian Sanders | 08/07/1998 | Torbay | Liberal Democrat | Signed |
Paul Burstow | 08/07/1998 | Sutton & Cheam | Liberal Democrat | Signed |
Ronnie Fearn | 08/07/1998 | Southport | Liberal Democrat | Signed |
Andrew George | 08/07/1998 | St Ives | Liberal Democrat | Signed |
Tom Brake | 14/07/1998 | Carshalton & Wallington | Liberal Democrat | Signed |
Ken Livingstone | 15/07/1998 | Brent East | Labour | Signed |
Richard Allan | 15/07/1998 | Sheffield, Hallam | Liberal Democrat | Signed |
Nigel Jones | 21/07/1998 | Cheltenham | Liberal Democrat | Signed |
Nick Harvey | 23/07/1998 | North Devon | Liberal Democrat | Signed |
Donald Gorrie | 28/07/1998 | Edinburgh West | Liberal Democrat | Signed |
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