These are the fifteen LibDem MPs who voted in favour of a referendum on the EU Treaty tonight.
Brooke, Annette
Carmichael, Mr. Alistair
Farron, Tim
George, Andrew
Gidley, Sandra
Hancock, Mr. Mike
Heath, Mr. David
Hemming, John
Holmes, Paul
Horwood, Martin
Leech, John
Mulholland, Greg
Pugh, Dr. John
Williams, Mark
Younger-Ross, Mr. Richard
The few with some integrity left...
ReplyDeleteNot all of these are LibDems: Colin Burgon is Labour, and Gregory Campbell is DUP
ReplyDeleteTim Farron is my MP.
ReplyDeleteI didn't vote for him, because I have always voted Conservative, but I know that he's a good Member of Parliament who gives his constituency 100%.
However, as of today, he's gone up in my estimation.
Sadly for him - and those MPs and Lib Dem party members like him - where do they go from here?
THANKYOU IAIN...Is that the best days blogging ever ?Superb.
ReplyDeleteA couple of errors there. Colin Burgon is Labour and Gregory Campbell is DUP.
ReplyDeleteThe other Lib Dems were Paul Holmes, John Leech, Mark Williams and Richard Younger-Ross, who rebelled on the second vote (Ian Davidson's two question referendum).
Colin Burgon is Labour MP for Elmet - the others are all nonentities!
ReplyDeleteSurely Gregory Campbell is DUP, not Liberal Democrat?
ReplyDeleteI actually can't believe how ridiculous the whole Lib Dem thing has become.
ReplyDeleteThis was AN absolute open goal.
If they had voted for a referendum - they could have happilly squared it with their Europhillia and their manifesto pledges.
No one would be talking about them. The government would have been under serious pressure.
And instead they have come up with a policy that no one could understand without wanting to: which means most voters will just look at the mess and conclude the lib-dems have made fools of themselves.
And as usual, most voters would be right.
Big Andy
Colin Burgon is Labour, Iain
ReplyDeleteUnlucky 13? Just out of interest has anyone cross checked these folk with the Huhnies?? And are you sure Iain that breaking a party whip in this kind of way will be regarded as "the right thing" where it is Tories doing it?
ReplyDelete15 Lib Dems who will keep their seats at the next GE, and consquently keep Marly Lights Man out of No 10
ReplyDeleteNewmania - I agree with you - our host has been on his best-ever form today.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Iain.
Well done to them. Shame on their spineless colleagues. I've left the party.
ReplyDeleteI never thought we could have a party leader more inept than Gordon!
ReplyDeleteCongratulations to those 15 true Brits.
ReplyDeleteRed Jake - "The others are all nonentities!" Not any more.
So bye bye old England's land
ReplyDeleteDrove democracy to the point where everyone lies
The gold old jocks drinking whisky and lies
singing
this is where old England is dead and thanks to the Germans and the French
Whilst I'm not an MP, I admit to being one of the bete noirs of modern society: someone who has two homes.
ReplyDeleteInterestingly, I see that both my MPs are on this list.
Both Tim Farron and my other MP are "old school" MPs who give all their time to their constituency and have come up by the traditional route of many years service on the local council.
When the Lib Dems almost inevitably implode, I do hope that the Conservative party can acomodate good MPs like these.
Not sure this is 100% right, Iain, I didn't find Leech and Williams in the 6.38pm vote that split Ayes 248, Noes 311.
ReplyDeleteBye Bye, Lib Dems writes of MPs who: "have come up by the traditional route of many years service on the local council."
ReplyDeleteNo.
The traditional route is many years in the business of wealth creation, in the real, bold, unprotected, world.
No one wants a local councillor graduate for an MP.
The first step towards becoming a national hero.
ReplyDeleteThree Conservatives voted against the Tory call for a referendum.
ReplyDeleteThey were: Kenneth Clarke (Rushcliffe), David Curry (Skipton & Ripon), John Gummer (Suffolk Coastal).
I expect they will now wish to resign their seats and stand for re-election on a manifesto of their own?
We've met Mister Younger-Ross before:
ReplyDeletehttp://dizzythinks.net/2008/02/richard-younger-ross-and-his-nights-out.html
And what will be the right thing for the Tories to do should they ever form the Government?
ReplyDeleteAnswers on a postcard to Dave and the mathematical genius Hague. Perhaps they'll follow Clegg and do nothing at all?
Mirthios
ReplyDeleteCould to see that the old Tory tradition of toleration of dissent is alive and well.
Ah, Annette Brooke. Down here in Mid Dorset and North Poole, we know the real reason she voted for a referendum: she's getting a hammering locally, and her party's undemocratic stance on the EU Treaty has already been the subject of a Conservative Action leaflet. What's worse - slavishly towing the party line or casting a vote in the UK Parliament just to save your own skin at the next General Election? Given that she is useless at the best of times, it probably doesn't even matter.
ReplyDeleteMiss Piggy said - "The traditional route is many years in the business of wealth creation, in the real, bold, unprotected, world."
ReplyDeleteBye-bye lib-dems is right - we are talking about LibDem MPs. They have traditionally come up through service on the local council.