At Prime Minister’s Questions today, Michael Fabricant welcomed the money promised in the Budget yesterday for the Health Service and said “it will help repair the damage done over the last couple of years”. He then went on to ask: “Is the Prime Minister aware that just as the Chancellor of the Exchequer was announcing […]
Michael Fabricant, together with some Labour and Liberal MPs, is campaigning against the outdoor ritual slaughter at the Eid-el-Kabir festival in France at which thousands of sheep (many exported live from Britain) have their throats cut, fully conscious, without first being stunned. Michael Fabricant says: “This practice is against French law and European law, but […]
Michael Fabricant spoke up for Staffordshire dairy farmers in the Commons today when he quizzed Nic Brown, Minister for Agriculture. He told the Minister “Over the last 3 years farm gate milk prices have fallen by a third, more than 5000 dairy farmers across the country have given up, the cost of producing a pint […]
BRITAIN TO BE SIZED UP FOR NAFTA ENTRY by Charlotte Denny Wednesday March 15, 2000 A team of Washington officials is due to arrive in the UK today to size up the British economy for possible membership of the North American Free Trade Area. Joining the multi-billion-dollar free trade zone which encompasses Canada, the US […]
Michael Fabricant is receiving an increasing number of letters from doctors and other health professionals expressing alarm that the Maternity Unit at the Victoria Hospital is to be axed along with other services. Michael Fabricant says: “If these reports are true, they must be resisted at all costs. The Maternity Unit in Lichfield offers the […]
Michael Fabricant opened the Engineering Recruitment Show at the National Motorcycle Museum near Birmingham this morning. The Show will run for today and Saturday and exhibitors include British Aerospace, Marconi, The Royal Engineers, RAF, and JCB. The Show attracts engineers from all over the west and east midlands. In his opening speech, Michael Fabricant said: […]
Speaking at 5.30 am this morning (Wednesday) in the House of Commons as part of an all-night debate on the Government Resources and Accounts Bill, Michael Fabricant condemned Labour for a cover-up on their performance on health and policing. While adopting Treasury plans to bring in commercial accounting methodology for government departments, the Government refused […]
At the Mayor’s Charity Poetry Reading held in the Guildhall, Lichfield on Saturday 19th February, Michael Fabricant read out the Beaufort Scale from the 19th Century Sailor’s Manual. Reading from 0 (Dead Calm) up to a crescendo of Hurricane Force 12 and back down again to 0, descriptions included: “Dead Calm, zero Force, tree leaves […]
Yesterday my Private Member’s Bill "Analysis of Cost and Benefits [NAFTA Membership] Bill" was introduced in the Commons. This was not intended to be a Valentine’s Day message to the United States, but an invitation to Parliament and the British public to think seriously about U.S. – U.K. economic relations. In 1999, British institutions invested […]
Economic Agenda by Bill Jamieson True EU cost MICHAEL FABRICANT’S Bill for a Parliamentary Commission to probe the costs and benefits of joining the North American Free Trade Agreement (Nafta) gets its first reading tomorrow. Well done, that man. Fabricant’s argument is that there should be an open-minded examination of the pros and cons before […]