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Plaid Cymru And The Miners

EDM number 43 in 1999-00, proposed by Don Touhig on 17/11/1999.

That this House deplores the insensitive comments of the Leader of Plaid Cymru, the Right honourable Member for Caernarfon, which apparently belittled the struggle of miners and mining communities of South Wales; and notes that the remarks coming as they do at a time when Labour honourable Members working with the National Union of Mineworkers have been campaigning for justice for miners whose health has been ruined by service in the pits, shows that Plaid Cymru is out of touch with the hopes and aspirations of valley communities which were laid waste during the years of Tory governments as mining and almost all manufacturing industries were destroyed.

This motion has been signed by a total of 29 MPs, 1 of these signatures have been withdrawn.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Don Touhig17/11/1999IslwynLabour Co-operativeProposed
Ted Rowlands17/11/1999Merthyr Tydfil & RhymneyLabourSigned
Llew Smith17/11/1999Blaenau GwentLabourSigned
Jackie Lawrence17/11/1999Preseli PembrokeshireLabourSigned
Ann Clwyd17/11/1999Cynon ValleyLabourSigned
Denzil Davies17/11/1999LlanelliLabourSigned
Huw Edwards17/11/1999MonmouthLabourSigned
Win Griffiths17/11/1999BridgendLabourSigned
Ann Cryer22/11/1999KeighleyLabourSigned
Harry Barnes22/11/1999North East DerbyshireLabourSigned
Alice Mahon23/11/1999HalifaxLabourSigned
Eric Clarke23/11/1999MidlothianLabourSigned
Alan Williams23/11/1999Swansea WestLabourSigned
Betty Williams24/11/1999ConwyLabourSigned
Ronnie Campbell24/11/1999Blyth ValleyLabourSigned
Rudi Vis24/11/1999Finchley & Golders GreenLabourSigned
Paul Flynn24/11/1999Newport WestLabourSigned
Jeremy Corbyn24/11/1999Islington NorthLabourSigned
Michael Clapham24/11/1999Barnsley West & PenistoneLabourSigned
Bill Michie24/11/1999Sheffield, HeeleyLabourSigned
Eric Illsley25/11/1999Barnsley CentralLabourSigned
Gareth Thomas25/11/1999Clwyd WestLabourSigned
David Crausby30/11/1999Bolton North EastLabourSigned
Denis Murphy02/12/1999WansbeckLabourSigned
Alan Meale07/12/1999MansfieldLabourSigned
Bill Etherington08/12/1999Sunderland NorthLabourSigned
John McDonnell10/01/2000Hayes & HarlingtonLabourSigned
John Cryer17/01/2000HornchurchLabourSigned
Audrey WiseUnknownWithdrawn

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