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To vote my MP back in?

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GloGirl · 03/04/2015 15:03

Not really an AIBU but I did find this very good website that gives you a detailed summary of your local MP's voting record.

Pretty disappointed in mine, thought other MNers might enjoy looking at how their MP is representing them (it does a mini summary but you can click through to a full summary)

www.theyworkforyou.com/mps/

Not my website by the way! Just sharing.

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SauvignonBlanche · 03/04/2015 15:10

Very interesting, thank you. Easter Smile

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GloGirl · 03/04/2015 15:18

I found out my MP voted against gay marriage. Really should have checked at the time, felt quite horrified at the thought he was speaking on "my behalf"

Angry
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limitedperiodonly · 03/04/2015 15:40

I strongly disagree with my MP on most issues but particularly social, welfare and benefit ones - he basically wants to grind up the poor to feed fox hounds and use their spare bedrooms as kennels.

He helped me with a sickness benefit issue but I could kind of tell his heart wasn't in it and he did it only because I was insistent and absolutely right and the DWP were clueless and absolutely wrong.

But as I reminded him in my letter of thanks, he does work for me.

Despite that, he's still not getting my vote. I'm sure that's no loss to him in this constituency.

Weirdly his laissez-faire attitude to tax, employment, welfare, social justice, foreign policy etc doesn't extend to smoking. He's vehemently against it. I've never smoked and broadly like laws which mean that I don't have to sit like a laboratory beagle next to a chain-smoker. But I do find his priorities a bit odd.

Have I said enough for you to guess which party he belongs to Wink

soapboxqueen · 03/04/2015 15:40

My MP hasn't voted too badly. I didn't agree with every vote he made but the main ones were ok.

BreakWindandFire · 03/04/2015 17:00

There's also a website which collates all the election leaflets from parties, and you can view by constituency. Here

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GloGirl · 03/04/2015 22:45

Ooh interesting Break

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Muchtoomuchtodo · 03/04/2015 22:50

Both very interesting websites. Thanks for the links.

SolomanDaisy · 03/04/2015 22:54

My MP's might as well say, 'voted as instructed by the whips'. He's also a bit of a twat. I'll vote for him anyway, since the alternative is worse.

pressone · 03/04/2015 23:17

I will definitely not be voting for my MP, and reading how he has voted on many, many issues has made me absolutely determined not to. Ho

Sadly he has such a large majority I doubt he will care but even a rock can be eroded if enough tiny raindrops fall on it so I will be casting my vote for the party I want least worse option.

GlitterBelle · 04/04/2015 00:32

My MP is a female Tory who I think will move up the ranks soon. I looked up her voted and she's strongly against help for disabled people, cuts to welfare and sticking it to the poor.

Sadly she got over 50% of the vote! and the person running for the party that came second - Lib Dem - has spoken publically about lazy disabled people getting free parking, when councillors have to pay. Angry

FannyPancake · 04/04/2015 00:42

Shocked!! Thank you for this Shock

GameOfGroans · 04/04/2015 11:26

Great site- I'm genuinely shocked at how my MP has voted Shock

ratspeaker · 04/04/2015 11:40

My MP has voted much the way I thought she would. Voted for gay marriage, opposed tuition fees, supports equality, opposed bedroom tax.
She's the only politician to have come to the door to ask opinions and generally have a blether when there was NOT an election due.
I'll be voting for her though her party isn't all I hoped it would be.

TondelayoSchwarzkopf · 04/04/2015 11:48

My MP is a good constituency MP, hard working, committed to his surgery, strong links to the community and very active with a sectors - we have large Jewish and Muslim communities and he seems close to both. He is also gay, in a CP and progressive in that respect.

But he is also a Tory, very aggressively in favour of selling off public services and closing down libraries and children's centres. He is a private landlord to boot.

So I won't be voting for him.

Lottiedoubtie · 04/04/2015 11:52
Shock

Right so my MP is against gay marriage, and supporting disabled people/young unemployed/anything that might make poor people's lives easier.

He seems to simultaneously love the bedroom tax, raising vat and higher taxes on alcohol etc. oh and he doesn't see a need to cap letting agents fees.

He's not adverse to culling badgers either.

Well I wasn't going to vote for the prat anyway. But now I'm really not going to!!

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GloGirl · 07/04/2015 11:11

Bump

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Idontseeanydragons · 07/04/2015 11:24

Thanks for this, had a look at mine and I'm now pretty certain I will vote for him. It goes against my usual record as he's Labour but his voting record seems ok.
He's the only one going door to door as well round here.
Will have a look at the other link now - I think we need to keep this bumped as much as possible in the next few weeks!

redshoeblueshoe · 07/04/2015 11:30

The only people canvassing round here are UKIP. Confused
Good site, my MP's record is as she claims Grin

HesBeenAVeryNaughtyBoy · 07/04/2015 11:38

Haha lottie think we have the same mp mine does everything you just said exactly!

I also know him personally and a bigger twat there is not so needlessly to say I won't be voting for him. He is prob to busy at the horse racing or swanning off with his mistress wife anyway to care about my vote sadly Hmm

EveBoswell · 07/04/2015 11:44

I've looked at what my MP does and it's B all. I don't like him and knew that he did not work for his constituents. He works for his party.

I could vote for his party but I prefer to vote for the person and I will not vote for this one.

BreconBeBuggered · 07/04/2015 13:00

Mine's a strong, well-regarded constituency MP. He voted in favour of the bedroom tax, and against raising benefit rates in line with taxes.

I didn't vote for him in 2010, and I certainly won't be doing so this time. He didn't have a large majority, but the Lib Dems were the opposition then. The 2015 picture will look a bit different.

Lottiedoubtie · 07/04/2015 20:22

hesbeen hope so - either that or there's two of them! Shock

ignoring the depressing truth thats there's probably loads

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GloGirl · 07/04/2015 22:49

Bump!

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