Yorkshire Friends petition MPs for nuclear ban
Friends from Huddersfield have written to four MPs
Huddersfield Quakers have written to four Kirklees MPs asking them to sign the parliamentary nuclear ban pledge. So far one, Thelma Walker, MP for Colne Valley, Huddersfield, has signed.
Huddersfield Meeting raised funds in their monthly collection to help Janet Fenton, who attended the UN talks in New York last July where 122 nations approved the groundbreaking Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.
Robin Bowles, an elder of Huddersfield Meeting, told the Friend: ‘The UN pledge was massively unreported in this country and we are one of the few countries who didn’t sign the pledge, including the US, China, France, Russia, Israel, India and Pakistan. We didn’t even attend. So, Janet Fenton suggested we write to our MPs. The government isn’t going to sign it, but we can put pressure on our MPs to support the pledge.’
‘So far we haven’t heard back from the other MPs but we’re going to follow it up. We hope our clerk will write a reminder and we will arrange some visits soon.’
