The Public Whip
2003-12-06 15:24![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
blufive(stop sniggering)
This is a tremendously useful website. It's a searchable guide of the voting records of British MPs, covering the last two parliaments (though the FAQ points out that there are a few gaps in their record of the 1997-2001 parliament)
There are a few problems - the lack of any indication of free votes, the difficulty for readers who aren't total parliament geeks to understand what some of the votes are actually about. The counting of "rebellions" can get a bit freaky, too (apparently, even Tony Blair himself has managed to rebel against the government on one occasion). Still, pretty good for what appears to be a largely automated service.
It confirms what I already knew about my MP - total Blairite loyalist (two votes against the government in two parliaments)
[via This Political Life]
This is a tremendously useful website. It's a searchable guide of the voting records of British MPs, covering the last two parliaments (though the FAQ points out that there are a few gaps in their record of the 1997-2001 parliament)
There are a few problems - the lack of any indication of free votes, the difficulty for readers who aren't total parliament geeks to understand what some of the votes are actually about. The counting of "rebellions" can get a bit freaky, too (apparently, even Tony Blair himself has managed to rebel against the government on one occasion). Still, pretty good for what appears to be a largely automated service.
It confirms what I already knew about my MP - total Blairite loyalist (two votes against the government in two parliaments)
[via This Political Life]