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Speech By The Archbishop Of Canterbury

EDM number 1040 in 2008-09, proposed by Roger Godsiff on 10/03/2009.
Categorised under the topic of World economy.

That this House commends the speech made by the Right Rev. Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, in Cardiff on 7 March 2009; supports his wide-ranging attack on the globalised economic system which in the West has fuelled spectacular, debt-driven, purchasing power and dramatic insecurity; agrees with the Archbishop that the lifestyle dependency of the few on high levels of fossil fuel consumption has been at the expense of long-term opportunities for the many and regional instability based on oil; further agrees that the pursuit of growth as the singular instrument of economic and social prosperity has further promoted inequalities; believes that the Archbishop is correct in his analysis that the widespread public condemnation and vilification of the bonuses and pension arrangements of failed bankers is justified, but has obscured the activities of governments that are committed to deregulation; and calls on the Government to follow the Archbishop's wise advice that any morally credible policy should be based on the needs of the majority and not the greed of a few.

This motion has been signed by a total of 31 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Roger Godsiff10/03/2009Birmingham, Sparkbrook and Small HeathLabourProposed
Andrew George10/03/2009St IvesLiberal DemocratSeconded
Ann Cryer10/03/2009KeighleyLabourSeconded
Jim Dobbin11/03/2009Heywood and MiddletonLabourSeconded
David Taylor11/03/2009North West LeicestershireLabourSeconded
Robert Wareing11/03/2009Liverpool, West DerbyIndependentSeconded
Adrian Sanders11/03/2009TorbayLiberal DemocratSigned
Alasdair McDonnell11/03/2009Belfast SouthSocial Democratic and Labour PartySigned
Ronnie Campbell11/03/2009Blyth ValleyLabourSigned
Martin Caton11/03/2009GowerLabourSigned
Joan Walley11/03/2009Stoke-on-Trent NorthLabourSigned
Dai Davies11/03/2009Blaenau GwentIndependentSigned
Colin Burgon12/03/2009ElmetLabourSigned
John Hemming12/03/2009Birmingham, YardleyLiberal DemocratSigned
David Drew12/03/2009StroudLabourSigned
Janet Dean12/03/2009BurtonLabourSigned
Lynne Jones12/03/2009Birmingham, Selly OakLabourSigned
Kelvin Hopkins12/03/2009Luton NorthLabourSigned
Alan Simpson12/03/2009Nottingham SouthLabourSigned
Mike Hancock16/03/2009Portsmouth SouthLiberal DemocratSigned
Betty Williams16/03/2009ConwyLabourSigned
John Leech16/03/2009Manchester, WithingtonLiberal DemocratSigned
John Mason16/03/2009Glasgow EastScottish National PartySigned
Paul Holmes17/03/2009ChesterfieldLiberal DemocratSigned
Jeremy Corbyn17/03/2009Islington NorthLabourSigned
Rudi Vis18/03/2009Finchley and Golders GreenLabourSigned
Brian Jenkins19/03/2009TamworthLabourSigned
Elfyn Llwyd19/03/2009Meirionnydd Nant ConwyPlaid CymruSigned
John McDonnell19/03/2009Hayes and HarlingtonLabourSigned
Neil Gerrard19/03/2009WalthamstowLabourSigned
Bill Etherington23/04/2009Sunderland NorthLabourSigned

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