Nuclear Advice And The Secretary Of State For Wales

EDM number 394 in 1989-90, proposed by Paul Flynn on 29/01/1990.

That this House regrets that the Secretary of State for Wales has denied, Official Report, column 605, 22nd January, authorship of the advice that, in the event of a nuclear attack, farmers should protect their cattle by driving them into a deep lane ditch and covering them with a tarpaulin sheet, in spite of the attribution of the statement to the Secretary of State by the Daily Mirror and the New Statesman; and asserts that the advice was as illuminating as the claim by the Ministry of Defence in 1980 that there might be 'an abundance of meat available immediately after a nuclear attack'; as useful as a civil defence seminar, reported in the Surrey Comet, on 'How to maintain public morale while disposing of 25 million corpses' and as informative as the revelation by Councillor Dennis Pettitt, who was reported in the Nottingham Evening Post as saying, as leader of the council, that 'house prices in Chilwell had gone up because people knew that in the event of nuclear war they would be incinerated instantly' in that area and not suffer lingering deaths as on the outskirts.

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