It’s the 2019 European elections! Which could, very well be the UK’s last! So please make it count! Watch to find out, why I am voting for the Liberal Democrats, for the first time in my life.
I’m voting Liberal Democrat in the European Elections #StopBrexit
Petition Make ‘netting’ hedgerows to prevent birds from nesting a criminal offence
Please, please can you all sign the petition to make ‘netting’ hedgerows to prevent birds from nesting a criminal offence over on the UK Parliament website.
P.S. You need to be a British citizen or UK resident to sign.
Petition to Call for an end to LGBT human rights violations in Brunei
Please, please can you all sign the petition, that is calling for an end to LGBT human rights violations in Brunei over on the UK Parliament website.
P.S. You need to be a British citizen or UK resident to sign.
Brexit: Petition to revoke Article 50 passes 4m signatures
The petition on Parliament’s website calling for Brexit to be cancelled by revoking Article 50 has passed more than four million signatures, yes over FOUR MILLION!
Still to sign it? Then head over to petition.parliament.uk/petitions/241584 and do it!
P.S. You need to be a British citizens or UK resident to sign.
Map for Petition to revoke Article 50 – Grantham and Stamford
Right now in my constituency of Grantham and Stamford (Nick Boles MP – Conservative), only 1.46% of 108,180 constituent have signed! Come on people, we can do better than this!
Please do sign over at petition.parliament.uk/petitions/241584
Brexit: Petition to revoke Article 50 passes 3m signatures
A petition on Parliament’s website calling for Brexit to be cancelled by revoking Article 50 has passed more than three million signatures.
Still to sign it? Then head over to petition.parliament.uk/petitions/241584 and do it!
P.S. You need to be a British citizens or UK resident to sign.
Petition to Revoke Article 50 and remain in the EU
I am not of course telling you to sign this… Sure most you know by views on the EU by now…
P.S. You need to be a British citizens or UK resident to sign.
MPs who voted against equal marriage
Here is a list of MPs that voted against #equalmarriage. Glad to see my local MP is not in the list. Then I would hope not, since he’s openly gay.
If you voted for any of these MPs in the last general election. Make sure you don’t next time around!!
Libdem MPs who voted against – 4
Sir Alan Beith (Berwick-upon-Tweed)
Gordon Birtwistle (Burnley)
John Pugh (Southport)
Sarah Teather (Brent Central).
Conservative MPs who voted against – 139
Nigel Adams (Selby & Ainsty)
Adam Afriyie (Windsor),
Peter Aldous (Waveney),
David Amess (Southend West),
James Arbuthnot (Hampshire North East),
Richard Bacon (Norfolk South),
Steven Baker (Wycombe),
Tony Baldry (Banbury),
Guto Bebb (Aberconwy),
Henry Bellingham (Norfolk North West),
Sir Paul Beresford (Mole Valley),
Andrew Bingham (High Peak),
Bob Blackman (Harrow East),
Graham Brady (Altrincham & Sale West),
Julian Brazier (Canterbury),
Andrew Bridgen (Leicestershire North West),
Steve Brine (Winchester),
Fiona Bruce (Congleton),
Robert Buckland (Swindon South),
Simon Burns (Chelmsford),
David Burrowes (Enfield Southgate),
Alun Cairns (Vale of Glamorgan),
Douglas Carswell (Clacton),
Bill Cash (Stone),
Rehman Chishti (Gillingham & Rainham),
Christopher Chope (Christchurch),
Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Cotswolds, The),
Geoffrey Cox (Devon West & Torridge),
Stephen Crabb (Preseli Pembrokeshire),
David Davies (Monmouth),
Glyn Davies (Montgomeryshire),
Philip Davies (Shipley),
David Davis (Haltemprice & Howden),
Nick de Bois (Enfield North),
Caroline Dinenage (Gosport),
Richard Drax (Dorset South),
Charlie Elphicke (Dover),
Jonathan Evans (Cardiff North),
David Evennett (Bexleyheath & Crayford),
Michael Fallon (Sevenoaks),
Dr Liam Fox (Somerset North),
Mark Francois (Rayleigh & Wickford),
George Freeman (Norfolk Mid),
Roger Gale (Thanet North),
Sir Edward Garnier (Harborough),
Mark Garnier (Wyre Forest),
Cheryl Gillan (Chesham & Amersham),
John Glen (Salisbury),
Robert Goodwill (Scarborough & Whitby),
James Gray (Wiltshire North),
Andrew Griffiths (Burton),
Robert Halfon (Harlow),
Simon Hart (Carmarthen West & Pembrokeshire South),
Sir Alan Haselhurst (Saffron Walden),
John Hayes (South Holland & The Deepings),
Oliver Heald (Hertfordshire North East),
Gordon Henderson (Sittingbourne & Sheppey),
Philip Hollobone (Kettering),
Adam Holloway (Gravesham),
Sir Gerald Howarth (Aldershot),
Stewart Jackson (Peterborough),
Gareth Johnson (Dartford),
David Jones (Clwyd West),
Marcus Jones (Nuneaton),
Greg Knight (Yorkshire East),
Kwasi Kwarteng (Spelthorne),
Mark Lancaster (Milton Keynes North),
Pauline Latham (Derbyshire Mid),
Jeremy Lefroy (Stafford),
Edward Leigh (Gainsborough),
Julian Lewis (New Forest East),
David Lidington (Aylesbury),
Peter Lilley (Hitchin & Harpenden),
Jack Lopresti (Filton & Bradley Stoke),
Jonathan Lord (Woking),
Tim Loughton (Worthing East & Shoreham),
Karen Lumley (Redditch),
Karl McCartney (Lincoln),
Anne McIntosh (Thirsk & Malton),
Stephen McPartland (Stevenage),
Esther McVey (Wirral West),
Anne Main (St Albans),
Paul Maynard (Blackpool North & Cleveleys),
Stephen Metcalfe (Basildon South & Thurrock East),
Nicky Morgan (Loughborough),
Anne-Marie Morris (Newton Abbot),
David Morris (Morecambe & Lunesdale),
James Morris (Halesowen & Rowley Regis),
Bob Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst),
Caroline Nokes (Romsey & Southampton North),
David Nuttall (Bury North),
Stephen O’Brien (Eddisbury),
Matthew Offord (Hendon),
Jim Paice (Cambridgeshire South East),
Neil Parish (Tiverton & Honiton),
Priti Patel (Witham),
Owen Paterson (Shropshire North),
Mark Pawsey (Rugby),
Mike Penning (Hemel Hempstead),
Mark Pritchard (Wrekin, The),
John Randall (Uxbridge & Ruislip South),
John Redwood (Wokingham),
Jacob Rees-Mogg (Somerset North East),
Simon Reevell (Dewsbury),
Sir Malcolm Rifkind (Kensington),
Andrew Robathan (Leicestershire South),
Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury),
Andrew Rosindell (Romford),
David Ruffley (Bury St Edmunds),
David Rutley (Macclesfield),
Andrew Selous (Bedfordshire South West),
Alec Shelbrooke (Elmet & Rothwell),
Sir Richard Shepherd (Aldridge-Brownhills),
Henry Smith (Crawley),
Sir John Stanley (Tonbridge & Malling),
John Stevenson (Carlisle),
Bob Stewart (Beckenham),
Mel Stride (Devon Central),
Julian Sturdy (York Outer),
Robert Syms (Poole),
Sir Peter Tapsell (Louth & Horncastle),
David Tredinnick (Bosworth),
Andrew Turner (Isle of Wight),
Shailesh Vara (Cambridgeshire North West),
Martin Vickers (Cleethorpes),
Ben Wallace (Wyre & Preston North),
Robert Walter (Dorset North),
James Wharton (Stockton South),
Heather Wheeler (Derbyshire South),
Craig Whittaker (Calder Valley),
John Whittingdale (Maldon),
Bill Wiggin (Herefordshire North),
Gavin Williamson (Staffordshire South),
Jeremy Wright (Kenilworth & Southam)
Labour MPs who voted against – 23
Joe Benton (Bootle)
Ronnie Campbell (Blyth Valley)
Tom Clarke (Coatbridge Chryston & Bellshill)
Rosie Cooper (Lancashire West)
David Crausby (Bolton North East)
Tony Cunningham (Workington)
Jim Dobbin (Heywood & Middleton)
Brian Donohoe (Ayrshire Central)
Robert Flello (Stoke-on-Trent South)
Mary Glindon (Tyneside North)
Paul Goggins (Wythenshawe & Sale East)
Dai Havard (Merthyr Tydfil & Rhymney)
Michael McCann (East Kilbride
Strathaven & Lesmahagow)
Jim McGovern (Dundee West)
Iain McKenzie (Inverclyde)
George Mudie (Leeds East)
Paul Murphy (Torfaen)
Stephen Pound (Ealing North)
Frank Roy (Motherwell & Wishaw)
Jim Sheridan (Paisley & Renfrewshire North)
Derek Twigg (Halton)
Mike Wood (Batley & Spen)
DUP MPs who voted against:
Gregory Campbell (Londonderry East),
Nigel Dodds (Belfast North),
Jeffrey Donaldson (Lagan Valley),
Rev William McCrea (Antrim South),
Ian Paisley Junior (Antrim North),
Jim Shannon (Strangford),
David Simpson (Upper Bann),
Sammy Wilson (Antrim East)
Plus: independents Nadine Dorries (Bedfordshire Mid) and Lady Sylvia Hermon (Down North).
Source : liberalconspiracy.org/2013/02/05/the-list-of-shame-all-the-mps-who-voted-against-equalmarriage/
the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill
I do really hope this bill passes tonight. Don’t think I ever watched the BBC Parliament channel so much in my whole life. Been watching it just about all day!
If you live in the UK and are not near a TV, but have Internet access. You can watch BBC Parliament live @ www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/tv/bbc_parliament/watchlive.
You can read the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill 2012-13 @ services.parliament.uk/bills/2012-13/marriagesamesexcouplesbill.html.
Also make sure you follow Stonewall on twitter @ twitter.com/stonewalluk.