Skip to main content

EBENEEZER ELLIOT

EDM (Early Day Motion) 201A1: tabled on 20 December 1999

Tabled in the 1999-00 session.

This motion has been signed by 15 Members. It is an amendment to an existing motion.

As this motion is using historical data, we may not have the record of the original ordering, in which case signatories are listed alphabetically.

This is an amendment to an existing motion

This motion was originally tabled by Mr Denis MacShane on 15 December 1999. This is amendment number 1.

View details of the original motion

Suggested amendment

at end add 'and notes his contempt for "Land-Interest's compound Man-and-Horse" as depicted in his poem "The Fox-hunters".'.

Original motion text

That this House salutes the memory of the great Rotherham radical poet, Ebeneezer Elliot, whose death 150 years ago robbed Britain of a voice for economic change and social justice and the spirit of whose famous appeal When wilt thou save the people, Oh, God of mercy When? The people, Lord, the people Not thrones and crowns but men! remains as valid today in many parts of the world as it was 150 years ago.