Parliamentary activities 2004-08
February 28, 2008
Comments Jeremy Corbyn made in the House of Commons between December 2004 and February 2008. (Reports after February 2008 will be blogged individually.) Please click on the links to download the full reports. If you not have Adobe Acrobat to read the PDF files, please download it from the Adobe site.
January-February 2008
British Overseas Territories (Chagos, Diego Garcia, British Indian Ocean Territory)
Gaza (humanitarian crisis, Palestine)
Global security & Middle East
Housing standards (democracy, housing associations)
December 2007-January 2008
Asylum seekers (lack of legal representation)
Bangladesh (cyclone, political situation)
Housing & regeneration (housing associations, council tenancies)
Pakistan & Kenya (inequality)
Sri Lanka (aid, Tamil community)
July 2007
Carter Review (Legal Aid)
Draft Legislative Programme
Occupied Palestinian Territories
June 2007
BAE Systems (”revolving doors”)
Communities and Local Government (council housing)
Darfur (legal immunity of heads of state, return of refugees)
Defence Export Services questions (public appointments)
Foreign and Commonwealth Office questions (nuclear non-proliferation treaty, Iran)
G8 Summit
Gaza (majority Palestinian representation)
Iraq Inquiry (legality of war, “humanitarian intervention”, civil liberties)
Mental health (inequality of provision)
Migrant workers (contract compliance)
Sustainable communities
February-March 2007
Bicentenary of the Abolition of the Slave Trade
Democratic Republic of the Congo (conflict, democratic process, development, civil rights, role of women)
Iran (nuclear non-proliferation treaty, Israel, India)
Questions to the Prime Minister (death toll in Iraq, depleted uranium)
Trident (nuclear non-proliferation treaty, international humanitarian law)
January 2007
Equality Act (Sexual Orientation) Regulations (Northern Ireland, homosexuality, equality)
Legal Aid (immigration, asylum, law centres, vulnerable groups)
Queen’s Speech debate (Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine, Israel, nuclear non-proliferation treaty)
Somalia (peace process)
Trident (nuclear non-proliferation treaty)
June 2006
Middle East (Israel, nuclear non-proliferation treaty, Gaza, United Nations Human Rights Council, civil society, extraordinary rendition, Council of Europe, Guantánamo, Diego Garcia, British Indian Ocean Territory)
March 2005
BAE Systems
Deportation of prisoners in UK jails
Asylum seeker numbers
Trident (nuclear non-proliferation treaty, warheads)
Iraq (costs)
UN Human Rights Commission
Commission for Africa (development, International Monetary Fund, trade, unemployment)
Sinn Fein (support allowances)
Nepal (Royal Nepal Army, Maoists, conflict resolution)
Withdrawal of funding for the Woodcraft Folk
Bangladesh (security, British nationals, civil society, aid)
Prevention of terrorism
February 2005
Asylum and immigration strategy
Belmarsh (human rights, detention without trial)
Children (child protection, families in need, voluntary sector)
Chile (Pinochet, military relations)
Council housing (overcrowding)
Free speech in Trafalgar Square
HMP Holloway (prisoner numbers)
Iran (policy of engagement)
Iraq (elections)
Islington (children’s centres, pre-school children)
Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference
Transport (Tube Line, London Underground, TfL, profits)
United Nations (UN Human Rights Commission, Liberation, EU, NGOs
Western Sahara (UN referendum)
December 2004-January 2005
Angola (International Monetary Fund, monitoring, aid programmes, debt write-off)
Anti-terrorist legislation
Bahrain (human rights)
Belmarsh (detention without trial)
British Indian Ocean Territories (benefits, Chagos)
Caribbean (trade, Cuba, Grenada)
Columbia (trade unions, human rights, opposition, universities)
Film industry (black film-makers)
HMP Holloway (women prisoners, suicide)
Identity Card Bill
Islington (health expenditure, Whitington Hospital, PFI, education expenditure, pre-school, primary school, secondary school, social housing, home ownership)
Northern Ireland (restraint of children, physical punishment, sexual offences)
Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference
Palestine (elections)
Railways Bill
EDMs to February 08
February 28, 2008
An Early Day Motion or EDM, according to Wikipedia, is one tabled by Members of Parliament for debate “on an early day”. Please click on the links to download the EDM texts. If you not have Adobe Acrobat to read the PDF files, please download it from the Adobe site. EDMs sponsored by Jeremy Corbyn since August 2008 have been blogged.
Turkish incursion into Kurdistan (26 February2008)
Indigenous Australians (21 February 2008)
Ninetieth anniversary of the Representation of the People Act, 1918 (6
February 2008)
Global summit for a nuclear weapon free world (5 February 2008)
Humanitarian situation in Gaza (No 2) (21 January 2008)
Civilians in Gaza (18 December 2007)
Iran and the Middle East (18 December 2007)
Bolivia (12 December 2007)
Arsenal Ladies’ Football Team (26 November 2007)
Rape victims in Saudi Arabia (21 November 2007)
Western Sahara (19 November 2007)
Nuclear Weapons Convention (06 November 2007)
Parliament and decisions over US missile defence (6 November 2007)
Set aside (16 July 2007)
UN High Representative For Disarmament (11 July 2007)
Mordechai Vanunu (02 July 2007)
London Metropolitan University (26 June 2007)
Angola (11 June 2007)
Chagos Islands (23 May 2007)
Western Sahara (23 May 2007)
Non-Proliferation Treaty Review (18 May 2007)
National Missile Defence (18 May 2007)
Treatment of Women in Guatemala and Mexico (18 May 2007)
Resumption of the building of council houses (15 May 2007
Death of Iccho Ito, Mayor of Nagasaki (18 April 2007)
Detention of Marie-Thérèse Nlandu (21 February 2007)
Conflict in Turkey (10 January 2007)
Death of Augusto Pinochet Ugarte (11 December 2006)
Elections in Venezuela (No 2) (04 December 2006)
Suspension of EU aid to Palestine (29 November 2006)
Work of Peace Brigades International (29 November 2006)
Future of London Underground passenger services (23 November 2006)
Alternatives to nuclear weapons (21 November 2006)
English Music Festival (25 October
2006)
UK’s Nuclear Weapons (14 July 2006)
William Wilberforce and the abolition of slavery (04 July 2006)
Visit by Mayor Akiba of Hiroshima (22 June 2006)
Rio Tinto (22 June 2006)
Thames Water and its leakage reduction target (22 June 2006)
Nuclear waste trains (20 June 2006)
Overseas territories (16 June 2006)
Fish licences and the Chagos Islands (18 May 2006)
Western Sahara (16 May 2006)
Bolivian Gas (03 May 2006)
Suspension of EU aid to Palestine (25 April 2006)
Armenia (24 April 2006)
Stop The War Campaign (16 March 2006)
John La Rose (01 March 2006)
St Patrick’s Day and anti-racism (01 March 2006)
Slavery and transatlantic slave trade (09 February 2006)
War criminals (07 February 2006)
Virgin Cross Country (06 February 2006)
Deaths of British soldiers in Iraq (31 January 2006)
Nepal (20 January 2006)
Australia Day (26 January 2006)
Elections in Venezuela (20 December 2005)
Presidential election in Bolivia (19 December 2005)
Restrictions on Mordechai Vanunu (14 December 2005)
Anti-Slavery Award 2005 (01 December 2005)
Efforts to secure the release of Norman Kember (01 December 2005)
Palestinian General Delegate (29 November 2005)
Jerusalem and the peace process (29 November 2005)
Supplies of military equipment to Indonesia (28 November 2005)
Public debate on Trident replacement (20 July 2005)
Caste discrimination and Dalit peoples (20 July 2005)
Control of head lice (12 July 2005)
Israel’s weapons (27 June 2005)
City and Islington College students’ success (26 May 2005)
Weapons in space (25 May 2005)
Future of the nuclear deterrent (26 May 2005)
Gladys Marin (24 March 2005)
Speed Limit on Lake Windermere (05 April 2005)
Water privatisation in Bolivia (21 March 2005)
Charges against Mr Mordechai Vanunu for violating restrictions (17 March
2005)
State of emergency in Nepal (09 March 2005)
Withdrawal of funding for the Woodcraft Folk (08 March 2005)
Assassinations in Bangladesh (23 February 2005)
Seeking Britishness
February 27, 2008
Last week, Home Secretary Jacqui Smith gave the House of Commons a stern lecture in the virtues of British citizenship. At the same time, she pledged to increase the cost of making an application and to cut the numbers.
The reaction of MPs was telling. Conservatives declared that any immigration was a problem, issuing dire warnings over numbers, control and so forth. It all sounded like Norman Tebbitt on a very bad day or Margaret Thatcher talking about being “swamped” in 1978, a year before she became prime minister. On the opposite side of the house, the new Labour brigade welcomed “the debate” about immigration - a euphemism for saying that it is too high - while other Labour MPs expressed reservations about the new charges and the whole British citizenship system. Read more
Supporting Ken
February 20, 2008
In last Sunday’s Observer, regular columnist Catherine Bennett churned out her usual half-page column. Essentially, it was taken up with wittily-written abuse about London mayor Ken Livingstone. There was no attempt at political debate, no assessment of his terms in office or what his electoral opponents might do, just media razzle-dazzle abuse.
Its role was minor compared to that of the London Evening Standard, which appears to have a whole team working to destroy Livingstone led by Andrew Gilligan. The Gilligan approach is more seductive - he makes a series of accusations, calls for an inquiry and then complains when his wishes are not granted. His latest escapade was a double-page spread on the alleged non-publication of passenger satisfaction surveys by Transport for London. This, he claims, is proof that Livingstone is abusing his position and using public money to fund his election campaign. Read more
