The Roll of Honour is here.
When the Government majority is so small, then there ought to be no question of pairing. It simply ought not to exist.
The wilder shores of the Far Left are tonight welcoming David Lammy, Graham Stringer and Sir Gerald Kaufman.
The following MPs signed the Goodman amendment but still
abstained after it had not been called: Keith Vaz, Angela Rayner, Stephen Hepburn, Roberta
Blackman-Woods, Nia Griffith, Emma Lewell-Buck, David Crausby, Robert Flello,
Kevin Barron, Harry Harpham, Sir Alan Meale, Pat Glass (my MP), Stephen
Kinnock, Kate Hollern, Alex Cunningham, Ronnie Campbell, Christian Matheson.
Campbell's Campaign Group comrade, John Cryer, who chairs the Parliamentary
Labour Party, also abstained.
Explanations are due.
If Sinn
Féin had taken their seats, then the Government would have lost. The DUP was
laying into them for, "Sitting at home with their feet up, moaning about
austerity, but not turning up to vote against austerity."
I am sure that
the Shinners' purity will be a great consolation to their constituents, a
disproportionate number of whom will be affected.
The SDLP, which broke the
Labour Whip and voted against, needs to make something of this. I am told that that has already begun.
No one from the crowing SNP signed the Goodman amendment. With which part of it did they disagree, and why?
You should have been into your third term as MP for this seat by now. Like a lot of people I'll always regard everyone else as something between an understudy and an imposter.
ReplyDeleteNo candidate for Deputy voted against. You should have been that MP.
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