Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Deputy Prime Minister – in the House of Commons at 11:30 am on 31 January 2007.
Louise Ellman
Labour, Liverpool, Riverside
11:30,
31 January 2007
When the Deputy prime minister visited Liverpool, did he meet residents who were satisfied with their new homes, which have been provided as a result of Government housing market renewal policies in the Welsh streets area? Does he intend to make a return visit as part of the commemoration of the abolition of slavery?
The office of Deputy Prime Minister is one that has only existed occasionally in the history of the United Kingdom. Unlike analogous offices in other nations, the Deputy Prime Minister does not have any of the powers of the Prime Minister in the latter's absence and there is no presumption that the Deputy Prime Minister will succeed the Prime Minister.
The post has existed intermittently and there have been a number of disputed occasions as to whether or not the title has actually been conferred.
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F Patrick
Posted on 1 Feb 2007 2:49 pm (Report this annotation)
Bloody hell Mrs Ellman you should be ashamed, toadying up to the leadership is one thing but doing it over the welsh streets is something unreal ! You are well aware that many residents in the area have been fighting City council plans to force them out of the houses they own so they can sell the area off to developers to build apartments round princes park and that in the rest of the area the city council using Pathways/ new heartlands money are knocking down fine old victorian terraces and villas that people of social strata would be proud to live in which might possibly create a sustainable community and instead are building cheap poorly designed cattle pens sorry I mean social housing that is effectively turning much of the area into a gehetto!
Honestly I don't actually know why you bother even pretending to work as an MP these days, you appear to do know little about what goes on in Liverpool and care even less and walk through the government lobby like a good sheep whenever there is a vote, talk about money for nothing.