UK: All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on ME news, 2020 onward

JellyBabyKid · Jul 16, 2024 at 1:48 PM

Dx Revision Watch said: ↑

I am afraid the Countess of Mar was partly responsible (along with Des Turner) for APPG on ME meetings no longer being open to attendance by the public. The COM had stormed out at one meeting and Chair, Des Turner threatened to call Parliament security to have certain members of the public escorted from the meeting room.

The COM did not support the policy at that time of meetings being open to public attendance and that is partly why she set up Forward-ME, from which the public were excluded and she decided which charity orgs would be invited to Forward-ME meetings.

When the new APPG on ME was convened with former MP, Annette Brook (LibDem Mid Dorset and North Poole) as Chair, the meetings of the APPG on ME were no longer open to public attendance.

Those unfamiliar with the December 2009 APPG on ME debacle, might like to read the account of John Sayer who had attended the meeting and was shocked by the behaviour of some of the group's officers:

John Sayer's report can be found after the initial commentary by Ciaran Farrell:

https://meagenda.wordpress.com/2009...arty-parliamentary-group-on-me-by-john-sayer/

Meeting of the All Party Parliamentary Group on M.E.
12 December 2009

Report by John Sayer (Chair M.E. Support-Norfolk)
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Wow.

Plus ça change..

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