Talk:David Lammy

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Would it be NPOV to put in the view amongst commentators that labelling a politician a future PM is a near guaranteed way to write off their chances of reaching that post? Timrollpickering 12:17, 11 Dec 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Article format

I think this article should be split up into various sections Background, Politics etcetera. Someone has added he voted for the Iraq War right at the end of the article which is a fact but its placement very much reflects a POV i.e. that it is of negative political consequence. In this case it should be placed under a politics heading. I don't recall seeing HE/SHE VOTED FOR THE IRAQ WAR at the end of other articles on M.Ps.

I added that comment and am trying to add it to as many MP pages as possible. I think with such a contentious war, it's a valid point that should be made. Whether or not this bestows negative or positive values upon the MP, is up to the reader.

I have replaced it with a more NPOV analysis of his voting patterns and a link to the Aristotle database, which I hope will satisfy both of the (anonymous) posters above. I note also that the original poster of the comment, 195.93.21.72, has a very lengthy history of Wikipedia vandalism. Iridescenti 17:32, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] History of Slavery

Could you please add a paragraph regarding Mr. Lammy's Ghanaian Slave Ancestry - for the purposes of highlighting his support for the campaign to award reparations to the decendants of Black slaves in the UK?