M.P.'s feeding at the Trough of Our Money - Time to call the slaughter man?The following is taken from Hansard, which maintains the official record of Parliamentary business, dated the 18th May 2007.
The item under debate is the Freedom of Information (Amendment) Bill.
“Mr. Winnick:
Does the hon. Gentleman agree that although, of course, the
confidentiality of correspondence is essential—if mine were released
without authorisation I would hardly be reluctant to raise it with Mr.
Speaker to defend the honour and privilege that I have as a Member of
Parliament—this Bill is about concealing our expenses? That is the
essence of the Bill.
Norman Baker rose—
Madam Deputy Speaker:
Order. I have already said this morning that we must focus all our
remarks and attention on the amendments under discussion. The point
made by the hon. Member for Walsall, North was widening the debate.
The full Parliamentary exchange of what we regard as the “MPs Expenses Concealment (Amendment) Bill” may be read here .
The MPs who voted for the shameful Amendment are:-
Labour MPs
Bob Ainsworth (Coventry North East)
Graham Allen (Nottingham North)
Janet Anderson (Rossendale & Darwen)
Adrian Bailey (West Bromwich West)
Sir Stuart Bell (Middlesbrough)
Clive Betts (Sheffield Attercliffe)
Liz Blackman (Erewash)
Nick Brown (Newcastle upon Tyne East & Wallsend)
Colin Burgon (Elmet)
David Cairns (Inverclyde)
Alan Campbell (Tynemouth)
Ronnie Campbell (Blyth Valley)
David Clelland (Tyne Bridge)
Harry Cohen (Leyton & Wanstead)
Wayne David (Caerphilly)
Parmjit Dhanda (Gloucester)
Brian Donohoe (Ayrshire Central)
Frank Doran (Aberdeen North)
Jim Dowd (Lewisham West)
Angela Eagle (Wallasey)
Maria Eagle (Liverpool Garston)
Clive Efford (Eltham)
Jim Fitzpatrick (Poplar & Canning Town)
Caroline Flint (Don Valley)
Michael Foster (Worcester)
Mike Hall (Weaver Vale)
Tom Harris (Glasgow South)
Doug Henderson (Newcastle upon Tyne North)
John Heppell (Nottingham East)
Keith Hill (Streatham)
Huw Irranca-Davies (Ogmore)
Kevan Jones (Durham North)
Martyn Jones (Clwyd South)
Fraser Kemp (Houghton & Washington East)
David Lammy (Tottenham)
Bob Laxton (Derby North)
Tom Levitt (High Peak)
Ivan Lewis (Bury South)
Tony Lloyd (Manchester Central)
Tommy McAvoy (Rutherglen & Hamilton West)
Stephen McCabe (Birmingham Hall Green)
Ian McCartney (Makerfield)
John McFall (Dunbartonshire West)
Shona McIsaac (Cleethorpes)
Tony McNulty (Harrow East)
Khalid Mahmood (Birmingham Perry Barr)
David Marshall (Glasgow East)
Gillian Merron (Lincoln)
Alun Michael (Cardiff South & Penarth)
Laura Moffatt (Crawley)
Elliot Morley (Scunthorpe)
George Mudie (Leeds East)
Meg Munn (Sheffield Heeley)
Denis Murphy (Wansbeck)
James Plaskitt (Warwick & Leamington)
Stephen Pound (Ealing North)
Ken Purchase (Wolverhampton North East)
John Robertson (Glasgow North West)
Frank Roy (Motherwell & Wishaw)
Joan Ryan (Enfield North)
Martin Salter (Reading West)
Jonathan Shaw (Chatham & Aylesford)
Jimmy Sheridan (Paisley & Renfrewshire North)
Sion Simon (Birmingham Erdington)
Angela C Smith (Sheffield Hillsborough)
Anne Snelgrove (Swindon South)
John Spellar (Warley)
Ian Stewart (Eccles)
Mark Tami (Alyn & Deeside)
Dari Taylor (Stockton South)
Gareth Thomas (Harrow West)
Dr Desmond Turner (Brighton Kemptown)
Claire Ward (Watford)
Tom Watson (West Bromwich East)
Dave Watts (St Helens North)
Malcolm Wicks (Croydon North)
Phil Woolas (Oldham East & Saddleworth)
David Wright (Telford)
Conservative MPs
Peter Atkinson (Hexham)Simon Burns (Chelmsford West)
Sir John Butterfill (Bournemouth West)
James Duddridge (Rochford & Southend East)
Tobias Ellwood (Bournemouth East)
Julie Kirkbride (Bromsgrove)
Greg Knight (Yorkshire East)
If your Member of Parliament is on this list of shame, why not use the links on the write and ask him what it is they do not wish you to know.? Only the British National Party knows how to clean up the pig sty and remove the creatures from their feeding. For an interesting article on how the M.P.'s abuse the system, check out the B.NP. news section here.
My MP didn't even bother to turn up. To me that is the same as voting for it seeing as it got through. I hope she is punished at the ballot box.
ReplyDeleteTop post again GA.
ReplyDeleteWhere have all the blog comments gone since the council elections?
I only see blog keepers and a few die hard BNPers posting.
Is apathy the new religion?
Cheers,
Harry Gow.
As far as I am concerned the only MP's who opposed the bill are those few decent men , from all parties , who actually voted against it and attempted to speak against it in the debate but were prevented from doing so due to another stitch up arranged between the crooks . Given the fact that most of our laws are now handed down to us by Europe I think we could surely cut the number of British MP's by about seventyfive percent . And they have the cheek to try to tell us they are so very busy . There is no limit to their shameless corruption but as the British electoral sheep continue to vote them into power , why should they care ?.
ReplyDeleteExposes the quality of our representatives in parliament.
ReplyDeleteThey are beyond the pale.
Take a look at this page in 'Times Online'
ReplyDeleteIt seems the chap behind the bill has MS and has already claimed a quad bike on his parliamentary expenses.
Could it be he's planning for the day when he'll need to acquire some "green, green grass" from the same expenses account.