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

[hotblack]

This looks good, but I'm not clear what the status is of Early Day motions.

Agree the text looks good.

They’re mainly vehicles for drawing attention or publicity. But they have no legislative impact or substantive meaning whatsoever. I guess it’s a bit like MPs signing a petition

https://www.parliament.uk/about/how/business/edms/

 

[Cinders66]

Agree the text looks good.

They’re mainly vehicles for drawing attention or publicity. But they have no legislative impact or substantive meaning whatsoever. I guess it’s a bit like MPs signing a petition

Yes

https://www.parliament.uk/about/how/business/edms/

Yes it’s applying pressure and raising awareness - both worthwhile in the current unacceptable circumstances

 

[boolybooly]

Thank you - I have emailed my MP to ask him to sign it.

good idea, I have done likewise

 

[Cinders66]

This EDM has been tabled by Morrison, Tom Liberal Democrat, with most of the sponsors also The Liberal Democrat’s. I cannot see his , name on the APPG “who are we”, unless new, so this might be an independent Liberal Democrat’s initiative vs the APPG. But I can’t see the name of The Liberal Democrat John Milne MP who wrote the recent letter, signed by some of the APPG, either. I don’t think the APPG has met since earlier in the year and I think they are meeting this week.