"My Lords, I rise to support my noble friend on Amendments 91 and 94 and to extend them a bit. Titles are not trivial. I have been involved in this in a certain way, which I am coming to, for more than 10 years. Titles are property and they go …..." Baroness Deech - View Speech
"This brought the House down—as it has done again today—and I lost my point. But it is a serious one: if we are going to share titles, although I am not sure that we should, it should work both ways...." Baroness Deech - View Speech
"My Lords, I suggest that the noble Lord, Lord Carlile, has misunderstood the meaning of risk assessment. We accept that it is a security risk. Of course you do not refrain from building because there is a risk, but you have to assess it and plan in detail what you …..." Baroness Deech - View Speech
"I was present at a meeting with Mr Ed Balls and Michael Gove, and Mr Ed Balls said there would be 3 million a year. He said it would be the most visited memorial in the whole world...." Baroness Deech - View Speech
"Can I ask the Minister why Sir David Adjaye would say that the memorial was something disruptive of the park, and specifically about this situation, if he used the same thing abroad? Is his conscience not troubled at all that, for purely administrative reasons, the Jewish community is going to …..." Baroness Deech - View Speech
"Can I ask the Minister whether all these people knew that the design had already been put forward in Ottawa? I do not think that even I knew that then...." Baroness Deech - View Speech
"My Lords, I have visited memorials all over the world. The designers of this one said:
“When viewed from the northwest corner by the Palace of Westminster, the Memorial is first perceived as a gradual rising hill towards the south end of the VTG. Along the journey south, the path …..." Baroness Deech - View Speech
"My Lords, I wish to say a word or two in support of the amendments in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Blencathra, and the amendments on size. I will then move on to my Clause 2 stand part notice.
"What about the consultation’s representation of the Jewish community? That has never happened. There is a saying in the Jewish community: when you have two Jews, there are three opinions, and if you have one synagogue you have to have another one because someone has to have a synagogue they …..." Baroness Deech - View Speech
"My Lords, since we have absolutely no guarantee that there will be a proper planning application, we have to set those remarks to one side.
I just want to add that this is not about nimbyism or selfishness. For those of us who have a real, deep family interest in …..." Baroness Deech - View Speech