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Proposed English Defence League March In Bradford

EDM number 491 in 2013-14, proposed by George Galloway on 09/09/2013.
Categorised under the topic of Racial discrimination.

That this House notes that there were further arrests at the English Defence League (EDL) march of what were estimated to be between 350 and 500 EDL members in London on 7 September 2013 and that 3,000 police officers were mobilised to enable the EDL to march over Tower Bridge to Aldgate; further notes that there was a peaceful counter-demonstration in Tower Hamlets of some 3,000 to 3,500 people determined to defend the principles of community harmony; further notes that the EDL leader, Tommy Robinson, has now announced that the next national march by the EDL will be in Bradford on 12 October 2013; believes the only purpose of such a march will be to incite racial division, hatred and violence; and therefore calls on the Police and Crime Commissioner, the Chief Constable of West Yorkshire and the Secretary of State for the Home Department to ban the EDL from marching anywhere in the Bradford area.

This motion has been signed by a total of 15 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
George Galloway09/09/2013Bradford WestRespectProposed
John McDonnell09/09/2013Hayes and HarlingtonLabourSeconded
Mike Hancock09/09/2013Portsmouth SouthLiberal DemocratSeconded
Peter Bottomley09/09/2013Worthing WestConservativeSeconded
Alan Meale10/09/2013MansfieldLabourSeconded
Jonathan Edwards10/09/2013Carmarthen East and DinefwrPlaid CymruSeconded
Jeremy Corbyn10/09/2013Islington NorthLabourSigned
Kelvin Hopkins11/09/2013Luton NorthLabourSigned
Sandra Osborne11/09/2013Ayr, Carrick and CumnockLabourSigned
Ronnie Campbell11/09/2013Blyth ValleyLabourSigned
Jim Dobbin11/09/2013Heywood and MiddletonLabourSigned
John Leech11/09/2013Manchester, WithingtonLiberal DemocratSigned
John Hemming12/09/2013Birmingham, YardleyLiberal DemocratSigned
Gerry Sutcliffe13/09/2013Bradford SouthLabourSigned
Gerald Kaufman06/05/2014Manchester, GortonLabourSigned

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