The Parky Charter Debate in Parliament
Movers and Shakers: a podcast about life with Parkinson's
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4.7 • 970 Ratings
🗓️ 3 May 2025
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
This week saw the first substantial debate in the UK Parliament on the subject of Parkinson's – and it was initiated by an enterprising Scottish MP, Graeme Downie, off the back of the Movers and Shakers' Parky Charter. So, for this emergency episode, Gillian and Mark report live from Parliament, introducing some highlights from the debate, and speaking to Graeme and his office manager, the inimitable Vonnie, about how politics can be used to help Britain's Parkies.
Don't forget to sign the Parky Charter petition by going to ParkyPetition.com!
Sponsored by Boardwave, who support Cure Parkinson's.
Presented by Rory Cellan-Jones, Gillian Lacey-Solymar, Mark Mardell, Paul Mayhew-Archer, Sir Nicholas Mostyn and Jeremy Paxman.
Produced and edited by Nick Hilton for Podot.
Sound mixing by Ewan Cameron.
Music by Alex Stobbs.
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| 0:00.0 | Podo. |
| 0:07.6 | You're listening to Movers and Shakers, a podcast about living with Parkinson's. |
| 0:12.4 | The show is generously sponsored by Bordwave, an exclusive European networking community |
| 0:17.1 | for software founders and CEOs. |
| 0:19.8 | Bordwave is a passionate supporter of Cure Parkinson's. |
| 0:23.0 | For more details on the charity's progress around research and its fundraising, |
| 0:27.3 | please visit cureparkinsons.org.org. |
| 0:35.0 | It's May the first and it's actually happened happened the debate on Parkinson's. I am so elated, I can't |
| 0:43.3 | tell you. Mark and I have the only one left now because the rest had to leave, but Mark, |
| 0:47.4 | are you as elated as I am? I don't know quite as elated, but it's pretty amazing, yeah. I'm |
| 0:52.0 | just sitting there and hearing, well, the first thing was, it was the first ever full debate. |
| 0:56.3 | Yay! |
| 0:57.4 | On Parkinson's in Parliament. |
| 0:59.1 | That in itself is really important. |
| 1:00.9 | Yeah. |
| 1:01.4 | Very powerful speeches, I think. |
| 1:03.2 | I have to admit a lot of people because it's May the 1st, |
| 1:05.5 | went off to do their campaigning in the local elections. |
| 1:08.8 | So it wasn't exactly packed, but enough people made the |
| 1:11.2 | points. It makes it very powerful. It was a big depressing when we first walked in and there weren't many |
| 1:14.6 | people there, but then people spoke with so much passion, don't you think? That you didn't need more. |
| 1:19.5 | And I mean, I was moved, but you were in tears when we came out. I was in tears. I just feel that inadvertently we've tripped on something that is so important. We didn't |
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