Eric Anthony Martlew (born 3 January1949) is a politician in the United Kingdom. He is LabourMember of Parliament for Carlisle, and was first elected in 1987. January 3 is the 3rd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1949 is a common year starting on Saturday. ... The Labour Party is a centrist/centre-left political party in the United Kingdom (see British politics), and one of the United Kingdoms three main political parties. ... A Member of Parliament, or MP, is a representative elected by the voters of an electoral district to a parliament; in the Westminster system, specifically to the lower house. ... Carlisle is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. ... 1987 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
External links
Eric Martlew MP official site
Guardian Unlimited Politics - Ask Aristotle: Eric Martlew MP
EricMartlew's private member's bill (which would make it an offence to allow a child to cycle without a helmet) failed to achieve its second reading.
At 11:55, Eric Forth, MP, called for a vote to go into private session, a procedural motion designed to curtail the debate and allow the next Bill to be discussed.
Martlew was right in one respect: we are "sacrificing" 28 (well, 22, but who expects accurate figures in a helmet debate) children per year.