AMID all the rhetoric, propaganda, smears and double talk, perhaps the best way to isolate the right wing Labour MPs is to examine their recent voting records.
Over the past 10 months, under Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership, there have been three key House of Commons debates where MPs showed their true colours to the Labour membership.
In many ways these votes exposed the real “Enemy Within” and those who will undermine Mr Corbyn at every turn.
The first occasion was last October when Labour had the opportunity to vote against George Osborne’s fiscal charter, which introduced a law to ban governments from borrowing money to fund infrastructure, housing or public services “during normal times”.
It was a key vote to secure the Tories’ Austerity programme and stop future public investment.
The second time was in December, when MPs debated and voted on whether to extend British bombing to Syria. An extension which has already killed hundreds of innocent civilians.
And the third occasion was on 18 July this year when MPs backed renewing the Trident £200 billion nuclear deterrent by 472 to 117 – a majority of 355 votes.
On Wednesday 14 October Labour voted against George Osborne’s fiscal charter. But a group of 20 MPs from Labour’s right wing felt they could not vote against the Tories’ Austerity proposal and instead abstained.
The abstainers were:
- Rushanara Ali
- Ian Austin
- Adrian Bailey
- Ben Bradshaw
- Ann Coffey
- Simon Danczuk
- Chris Evans
- Frank Field
- Mike Gapes
- Margaret Hodge
- Tristram Hunt
- Graham Jones
- Helen Jones
- Liz Kendall
- Chris Leslie
- Fiona MacTaggart
- Shabana Mahmood
- Jamie Reed
- Graham Stringer
- Gisela Stuart
The debate and vote on whether to extend British bombing of Isis into Syria was high profile and controversial for many reasons.
Labour MPs were given a free vote and allowed to vote according to their views.
Most Labour MPs – including the majority of the Shadow Cabinet – opposed the bombing, in line with Jeremy Corbyn.
But 66 Labour MPs voted with David Cameron in support of the military strikes.
They were:
- Heidi Alexander
- Ian Austin
- Adrian Bailey
- Kevin Barron
- Margaret Beckett
- Hilary Benn
- Luciana Berger
- Tom Blenkinsop
- Ben Bradshaw
- Chris Bryant
- Alan Campbell
- Jenny Chapman
- Vernon Coaker
- Ann Coffey
- Yvette Cooper
- Neil Coyle
- Mary Creagh
- Stella Creasy
- Simon Danczuk
- Wayne David
- Gloria De Piero
- Stephen Doughty
- Jim Dowd
- Michael Dugher
- Angela Eagle
- Maria Eagle
- Susan Elan Jones
- Louise Ellman
- Frank Field
- Jim Fitzpatrick
- Colleen Fletcher
- Caroline Flint
- Harriet Harman
- Margaret Hodge
- George Howarth
- Tristram Hunt
- Dan Jarvis
- Alan Johnson
- Graham Jones
- Helen Jones
- Kevan Jones
- Liz Kendall
- Peter Kyle
- Chris Leslie
- Holly Lynch
- Siobhain McDonagh
- Pat McFadden
- Conor McGinn
- Alison McGovern
- Lucy Powell
- Bridget Phillipson
- Jamie Reed
- Emma Reynolds
- Geoffrey Robinson
- Joan Ryan
- Ruth Smeeth
- Angela Smith
- John Spellar
- Gisela Stuart
- Gareth Thomas
- Anna Turley
- Chuka Umunna
- Keith Vaz
- Tom Watson
- Phil Wilson
- John Woodcock
In July this year when MPs backed renewing the Trident nuclear deterrent by 472 to 117, some 140 Labour MPs voted for the renewal, compared to 47 who voted no. A further 41 abstained or made themselves scarce.
Those who voted for Trident were:
- Heidi Alexander
- Rushanara Ali
- Rosena Allin-Khan
- Ian Austin
- Adrian Bailey
- Kevin Barron
- Margaret Beckett
- Hilary Benn
- Luciana Berger
- Clive Betts
- Tom Blenkinsop
- Ben Bradshaw
- Kevin Brennan
- Chris Bryant
- Andy Burnham
- Liam Byrne
- Alan Campbell
- Jenny Chapman
- Vernon Coaker
- Ann Coffey
- Julie Cooper
- Rosie Cooper
- Yvette Cooper
- Neil Coyle
- Mary Creagh
- Stella Creasy
- Jim Cunningham
- Nic Dakin
- Simon Danczuk
- Wayne David
- Geraint Davies
- Gloria de Piero
- Stephen Doughty
- Jim Dowd
- Peter Dowd
- Jack Dromey
- Michael Dugher
- Angela Eagle
- Maria Eagle
- Julie Elliott
- Louise Ellman
- Bill Esterson
- Paul Farrelly
- Frank Field
- Jim Fitzpatrick
- Robert Flello
- Colleen Fletcher
- Caroline Flint
- Yvonne Fovargue
- Gill Furniss
- Mike Gapes
- Pat Glass
- Mary Glindon
- Kate Green
- Andrew Gwynne
- David Hanson
- Harriet Harman
- Helen Hayes
- Sue Hayman
- John Healey
- Stephen Hepburn
- Meg Hillier
- Margaret Hodge
- George Howarth
- Tristram Hunt
- Dan Jarvis
- Alan Johnson
- Diana Johnson
- Gerald Jones
- Graham Jones
- Helen Jones
- Kevan Jones
- Susan Elan Jones
- Mike Kane
- Liz Kendall
- Stephen Kinnock
- Peter Kyle
- Chris Leslie
- Emma Lewell-Buck
- Ian C Lucas
- Holly Lynch
- Justin Madders
- Khalid Mahmood
- Shabana Mahmood
- Seema Malhotra
- John Mann
- Rob Marris
- Christian Matheson
- Steve McCabe
- Kerry McCarthy
- Siobhain McDonagh
- Pat McFadden
- Conor McGinn
- Alison McGovern
- Liz McInnes
- Catherine McKinnell
- Ed Miliband
- Madeleine Moon
- Jessica Morden
- Melanie Onn
- Chi Onwurah
- Albert Owen
- Matthew Pennycook
- Toby Perkins
- Jess Phillips
- Bridget Phillipson
- Lucy Powell
- Jamie Reed
- Steve Reed
- Christina Rees
- Rachel Reeves
- Jonathan Reynolds
- Geoffrey Robinson
- Joan Ryan
- Virendra Sharma
- Barry Sheerman
- Paula Sherriff
- Gavin Shuker
- Andy Slaughter
- Ruth Smeeth
- Angela Smith
- Nick Smith
- Owen Smith
- Karin Smyth
- John Spellar
- Keir Starmer
- Wes Streeting
- Gisela Stuart
- Mark Tami
- Gareth Thomas
- Nick Thomas-Symonds
- Stephen Timms
- Anna Turley
- Karl Turner
- Stephen Twigg
- Valerie Vaz
- Tom Watson
- Phil Wilson
- Rosie Winterton
- John Woodcock
- Iain Wright
And the hard core of 14 right wing/Blairite Labour MPs that refused to vote against the Tories, voted TO BOMB Syria AND for the renewal of Trident are therefore:
- Ian Austin
- Adrian Bailey
- Ben Bradshaw
- Ann Coffey
- Simon Danczuk
- Frank Field
- Margaret Hodge
- Tristram Hunt
- Graham Jones
- Helen Jones
- Liz Kendall
- Chris Leslie
- Jamie Reed
- Gisela Stuart
It is easy to see without looking too far, just who are Labour’s Red Tories and those who might be advised to find a different political party to represent.
- For more background you may also like to read: The right wing incontinence of the Progress plotters.
https://seagullnic.wordpress.com/2016/07/27/the-right-wing-incontinence-of-the-progress-plotters/
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