The libel action brought by David Irving against Penguin Books and Deborah Lipstadt

Early Day
Motion in The House of Commons*.

Date: April 11, 2000:

http://edm.ais.co.uk/weblink/html/motion_prt.html/ref=634

The EDM No. 634 was sponsored by Mike Gapes (Labour
Party), and supported by 48 other signatures:

EDM 634

MR DAVID IRVING’S LIBEL CASE 11.04.00

THAT this House congratulates Professor Deborah
Lipstadt and Penguin books on their victory in the
David Irving libel case; welcomes the verdict of Mr Justice Charles
Gray and his opinion that Irving is a racist, anti-Semite and holocaust denier; and believes that the result of this case proves that Irving is not a respectable outspoken historian but a Hitler partisan who distorts history to fit in with his own preconceived ideology.
Signatures:

Conservative Party

Bercow/John

Bottomley/Peter

Lewis/Julian

Labour Party

Austin/John

Barnes/Harry

Brown/Russell

Clapham/Michael

Clark/David

Clarke/Eric

Coleman/Iain

Colman/Tony

Connarty/Michael

Cook/Frank

Corbyn/Jeremy

Cox/Tom

Cryer/Ann

Davidson/Ian

Davis/Terry

Dawson/Hilton

Dismore/Andrew

Dobbin/Jim

Ellman/Louise

Etherington/Bill

Fyfe/Maria

Gapes/Mike

Gibson/Ian

Gordon/Eileen

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Griffiths/Win

Hopkins/Kelvin

Illsley/Eric

Jones/Jenny

Jones/Lynne

Lepper/David

Love/Andrew

Mahon/Alice

Marsden/Gordon

McDonnell/John

McNamara/Kevin

Michie/Bill

Palmer/Nick

Perham/Linda

Pound/Stephen

Rapson/Syd

Simpson/Alan

Vis/Rudi

Liberal Democrats

Hancock/Mike

Harris/Evan

Russell/Bob

Stunell/Andrew

* Website Comment: Early Day
Motion is the term used to describe notices of motions given
by Members that are not generally expected to be debated.
Effectively, the tabling of an EDM is a device to draw
attention to an issue, and to elicit support for it by the
means of inviting other Members to add their signatures to
the motion.

Members may also table amendments to existing
motions.

One wonders how Early in the Day this motion was posted; Gray’s verdict was known secretly to the defendants’ solicitors from 9 a.m.

on April 10, but not to the general public including Members of Parliament until midday on April 11. Note how few Conservative members of parliament signed the propaganda motion. In June 1989 Gapes also sponsored an Early
Day motion condemning Mr
Irving for publishing the Leuchter Report. Such motions are privileged, communications and cannot be made the object of lawsuits; and as such carry as much weight as a flying-saucers article in the National Inquirer.

Website fact: The stamina of the defence team was aided by a six million dollar fund provided by Stephen Spielberg, Edgar J Bronfman, and the American
Jewish Committee, which enabled them to pay 21 lawyers and
“experts”; the experts like Evans, Longerich were paid up to
£109,000 each to testify as they did (while the defence’s star legal team was paid considerably more).
Nobody was paying for Mr Irving, who has been fighting this battle for three whole years.

Nobody was paying for Mr
Irving, who has been fighting this battle for three whole years. Nor did he pay his defence witnesses one cent or sous: they testified from conviction, not for reward.
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