Your current MP

[GloGirl]

Check up on their voting record here by putting in your postcode

www.theyworkforyou.com

So easy to get bored by the rhetoric politicians give, this site gives a very easy run down on how they actually vote.

If you're thinking about reelecting someone, just double check their actions.

My local MP is a right arsehole by all accounts!

My MP is an utter cunt, but I already knew that. He sticks closely along the party line. Sadly I am in a Tory stronghold so he could go on live tv murdering puppies and kittens and he would still be voted back in. Cunt.

That website was very useful to remind how much of a cunt he is though, so thank you!

Ours is a good constituency MP with a sound voting record. Sadly is looks as if he will lose out to SNP.

I haven't looked but I know from contact with him about important issues that we don't see eye to eye. I wrote to him to ask for support for an issue to do with education and he replied saying that he was supportive but couldn't support every issue that he received letters about. The next day he was in the local paper showing his support for a campaign to stop a pond that was home to newts from being destroyed.
It's OK if constituents children have a bad education but not if they can't look and see newts in the pond on the village green

Check out commondecency.org.uk

Mine is rubbish and in a safe seat (not as safe as it used to be, because of the MP's record), but I will have to vote them in as otherwise my non-preferred party might end up running the country. I really would like to vote for a different, new MP who has actually personally telephoned me, but it would be too dangerous in the overall scheme of things.

I used to respect my old MP who was from the same party as the new one, but they retired, unfortunately.

Mine has just been convicted of assaulting two teenagers in a shop - Eric Joyce, was Labour - disowned by them and refused to resign so he could continue to claim salary/expenses.

He isn't standing and needless to say I wouldn't be voting for him if he did.

This seat will almost definitely go to SNP (along with all the rest).

catgirl1976 I wonder if you live in the same constituency as me. Very exciting contest here. Hoping to see the back of him.

Well, my Tory Wanker isn't standing this year (thank fuck) but I'm sure the younger, shinier Tory Wanker who is standing will slip happily into the space vacated. Safe Tory Wanker seat, miserable as hell.

But very very interesting to read just how much of a fuckwit my MP has been over the last gazillion years. I wrote to him once, so I did have a bit of an idea, but good depressing to see it all in black and white.

Mine is brilliant, i think my mp (its paul flynn) does a great job. I'm not gonna vote for him though. Its my hope that he will defect.

www.theyworkforyou.com is a rubbish website - it is way too simplistic.

You need to understand the detail and political game playing around each vote. I don't like the game playing in Parliament but it does exist, and parties try to trip each other up so they can claim the other side "voted for killing the first born". Looking at a vote in 2011 now, without context doesn't tell you very much.

And of course MPs mostly vote along party lines, as that is the system we have. It's not the best but an MP who rebels all the time often has no chance at all of eventually moving on their own party's views on a topic.

If you want to know what your MP thinks on any given controversial issue the best thing is to write to them at the time. Yes, you get a standard letter back but at least it explains their own views on the topic, rather than reducing it to how they played the game. And the game is rarely what sets the policy in the long term.

I think calling it rubbish is a tad harsh TheBoov, it can be a useful entry point to the primary source of the Official Report.

I did say in my post earlier that context is important and that it's a rough tool but can be helpful if you keep in mind the background.

Nothing to do with politics can be taken at face value can it really? Newspaper articles, statements, broadcasts etc. People need to know how to read and judge these things. Context is everything but this is another tool in the weaponry I guess.

Thanks so much for sharing this website! I often thought my own MP (tory, safe seat) seemed like a nice woman, although I am voting green this time, but having read up on her votes/ debates, it's really made me see her in a new light.

She may well be a 'nice' woman, and is charismatic and charming, but I haven't got time for any MP who is voting against gay marriage but is pro trident. Seriously messed up...

My MP has been the best MP we've had since I have lived here. He listens, responds quickly to letters and emails and follows things up. He's also Labour. I am tired of the Tories telling me if I vote for him I vote for Ed Milliband. Shouldn't we be able to vote for someone who does a good job?

I really have to disagree with you TheBoov, unless you can point me to a better alternative?

two in my area the newspapers look very genuine - the magazine posted doesn't look genuine to me, but the newspapers we get do. The only way apart from bias (but again that isn't obvious) you would know it wasn't real would be if you could read the tiny writing. It's been proven to look exactly like a local paper in part of the country I live in. It's enough to confuse people - apart from my neighbour I know others have been taken in by it.

theboov it might not be perfect but my MP refuses to answer any questions straight about anything controversial. If he bothers, mostly he just ignores any contact that's controversial.

I'm in Clegg's constituency too and will be voting Labour - apparently it's too close to call at the moment with as few as a thousand votes in it.

My MP (name rhymes with 'Figel Diddums', looks like Harry Enfield had a baby with a slug) has done lots of prattish things. But one thing he voted for I agree with is he voted to remove hereditary peers from the House of Lords. Maybe not so surprising, I guess he is one of those oikish tories like old Norman Tebbit, with a chip on his shoulder because he didn't go to Eton.

Apparently he was a rebel, defying tory whip on something to do with licensing hairdressers (go figure - he picks the best issues to have a conscience about!) I always thought he was a moron but reading about his voting record - yes, he's a prize pillock.

I don't have a better alternative - I guess it would cost too much to add analysis and people make good money out of providing that!

OK, rubbish was too hard "treat with extreme caution".

Crabby, mine too

I wonder how it works now that the Lib Dem candidate has been suspended?

Thanks OP this is really useful.

He'll just get even more votes I expect Tanith. There are so many blue boards displayed everywhere. I have a very childish urge to go out in the dark of night with some tippex and tory-blue pens and change H to C on all the posters.

Hopefully the Greens and the NHS candidate will mop up the LibDems with nobody to vote for.

This makes for very interesting reading. Our current MP is a Tory and would never have got my vote anyway, but seeing that his voting record has confirmed my beliefs.

This is a very marginal seat, though, so he's not safe.

Crabby

The boards were so much more interesting when Virginia Bottomley was our MP

I bet!

Same conclusion as tidy when it came to my MP... "That website was very useful to remind how much of a cunt she (he) is though, so thank you!"