ME Association: ‘ME Awareness Week 2018’ New Early Day Motion Launched by Carol Monaghan MP

[NelliePledge]

"I have always had a policy of not signing EDMs as they have little legislative impact and cost the taxpayer hundreds of thousands of pounds each year and, in fact, as Leader of the House of Commons and Lord President of the Councik, I am now unable to sign EDMs."

Andrea Leadsom

The little legislative impact is a red herring. It is a lack of understanding of the role of Parliament in holding the Government to account. It is not necessary to propose or amend legislation to do that.

This sentence is a standard one used by other MPs in that party. It is misleading and each time my Mp uses it I explain that it is wrong, but like the Civil Service, MPs offices work with standard paragraphs so they can churn out a lot of replies on the same point.

 

[Andy]

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[Inara]

All the other topics are very touching. There is so much wrong-doing

But it's really great the ME topic is in the top 10

 

[NelliePledge]

this is really good

dont want to put a dampener but if theres an election as seems increasingly likely that brings the session to a halt and everything will have to pick up again with the new cohort of MPs and we will all be praying very hard that Carol Monaghan gets reelected

 

[Esther12]

Monaghan seems committed, a paragraph on PACE in her SNP profile:

Carol has also led the campaign in the UK Parliament to change attitudes towards Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME), leading two landmark debates on the research and treatment on the condition and on the controversial PACE trial. Carol continues to press for a full debate in the House of Commons.

https://www.snp.org/carol_monaghan