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Wednesday, June 16th, 2010 at 9:09 pm - - Dear Louise

Dear Louise Ellman,

I note that you did not cast your vote in Parliament on 8 June 2010 on the issue of whether to include the Trident nuclear missile system as part of the Strategic Defence Review, whilst you did vote a few minutes later on another motion.

Can I assume that this was an abstention?

As I recall you explaining once, the Trident nuclear missile system is part of the UK’s defence against an undefined threat in an “uncertain future”.

If it is part of the UK’s “defences”, what possible reason is there for not including it in a Strategic Defence Review?

Can you confirm that you lack complete confidence that the case for this nuclear weapons system will stand up to the scrutiny of a review?

Yours sincerely,

Julian Todd.

Wednesday, June 16th, 2010 at 8:43 pm - - Dear Louise

Dear Louise Ellman,

Shortly before your re-election by the voters of Liverpool Riverside, you were kind enough to speak at a somewhat rowdy hustings in the Methodist Christian church in Toxteth.

To one of the questions put to you, I distinctly remember you stating that there was “no blockade of Gaza”.

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