Reading & District Labour Party Media Release
12 September 2012
It’s time for Reading’s two Tory MPs to get off the fence
when it comes to Equal Marriage says Reading Labour LGBT Officer, Richard Wood.
At last weekend’s Reading
Pride, Reading Labour together with LGBT Labour and Reading Young Labour
asked people to fill in and sign letters (see attached) calling on local MPs
Rob Wilson and Alok Sharma to vote in favour of the Equal Marriage bill when it
is brought before parliament.
Richard Wood commented “We had a fantastic reaction at the
stall, over 200 people signed the letters calling on Alok Sharma and Rob Wilson
to commit to voting in favour of the bill. It was clear from the feedback we
got that people feel the time has come, countries such as Belgium, Canada, the
Netherlands, Norway, Spain and Sweden all allow same sex-marriage and recently
the Democratic Party in the US, lead by President Obama, has committed itself
to introduce legislation.”
Cllr Tony Page,
Deputy Leader of Reading Borough Council, who represented the Labour Group on
the march and at Pride, commented “I’m delighted Richard got such a positive
reaction to his campaign, I agree with him that time has come for us to move
forward on this issue and provide true equality in marriage, I am also
extremely gratified that so many of my colleagues have also signed.”
Labour Councillors who have signed letters to their MPs
include Cllrs. Lovelock, Page, Davies, Eden, K.Edwards, Ennis, Gavin,
Hacker, Hoskin, P. Jones, T. Jones, Khan, Livingston, Maskell,
McElligott, Rodda, Ruhemann, Terry, Tickner, Williams, and Woodward.
Richard Wood comments
“I’ll be delivering the letters to the offices of Alok Sharma and Rob Wilson
next week and hopefully we may finally get a response from them on how they
intend to vote”.
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