Unprincipled bastards

This is for your information and is the list of MPs who broke their election promise re a referendum on the EU Treaty - I am not prepared to discuss the differences between the EU Constitution and the Lisbon Treaty any longer, anyone of any intelligence and honour knows they are fundamentally the same.


The following voted against a referendum:
Labour:
Nick Ainger (Carmarthen West & Pembrokeshire South), Bob Ainsworth (Coventry North East), Douglas Alexander (Paisley & Renfrewshire South), Graham Allen (Nottingham North), David Anderson (Blaydon), Janet Anderson (Rossendale & Darwen), Hilary Armstrong (Durham North West), Charlotte Atkins (Staffordshire Moorlands), Ian Austin (Dudley North), John Austin (Erith & Thamesmead), Adrian Bailey (West Bromwich West), Vera Baird (Redcar), Ed Balls (Normanton), Gordon Banks (Ochil & Perthshire South), Celia Barlow (Hove), Kevin Barron (Rother Valley), Hugh Bayley (York, City of), Margaret Beckett (Derby South), Anne Begg (Aberdeen South), Sir Stuart Bell (Middlesbrough), Hilary Benn (Leeds Central), Joe Benton (Bootle), Roger Berry (Kingswood), Clive Betts (Sheffield Attercliffe), Liz Blackman (Erewash), Roberta Blackman-Woods (Durham, City of), Hazel Blears (Salford), Bob Blizzard (Waveney), David Blunkett (Sheffield Brightside), David Borrow (Ribble South), Ben Bradshaw (Exeter), Kevin Brennan (Cardiff West), Gordon Brown (Kirkcaldy & Cowdenbeath), Lyn Brown (West Ham), Nick Brown (Newcastle upon Tyne East & Wallsend), Russell Brown (Dumfries & Galloway), Des Browne (Kilmarnock & Loudoun), Chris Bryant (Rhondda), Karen Buck (Regent’s Park & Kensington North), Richard Burden (Birmingham Northfield), Andy Burnham (Leigh), Dawn Butler (Brent South), Stephen Byers (Tyneside North), Liam Byrne (Birmingham Hodge Hill), Richard Caborn (Sheffield Central), David Cairns (Inverclyde), Alan Campbell (Tynemouth), Martin Caton (Gower), Ian Cawsey (Brigg & Goole), Colin Challen (Morley & Rothwell), Ben Chapman (Wirral South), David Chaytor (Bury North), Michael Clapham (Barnsley West & Penistone), Katy Clark (Ayrshire North & Arran), Paul Clark (Gillingham), Charles Clarke (Norwich South), Tom Clarke (Coatbridge, Chryston & Bellshill), David Clelland (Tyne Bridge), Ann Clwyd (Cynon Valley), Vernon Coaker (Gedling), Ann Coffey (Stockport), Harry Cohen (Leyton & Wanstead), Michael Connarty (Linlithgow & Falkirk East), Rosie Cooper (Lancashire West), Yvette Cooper (Pontefract & Castleford), Jim Cousins (Newcastle upon Tyne Central), David Crausby (Bolton North East), Mary Creagh (Wakefield), Jonathan Cruddas (Dagenham), Jim Cunningham (Coventry South), Tony Cunningham (Workington), Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby), Alistair Darling (Edinburgh South West), Wayne David (Caerphilly), Quentin Davies (Grantham & Stamford), Janet Dean (Burton), John Denham (Southampton Itchen), Jim Devine (Livingston), Parmjit Dhanda (Gloucester), Andrew Dismore (Hendon), Jim Dobbin (Heywood & Middleton), Frank Dobson (Holborn & St Pancras), Brian Donohoe (Ayrshire Central), Frank Doran (Aberdeen North), Jim Dowd (Lewisham West), Angela Eagle (Wallasey), Maria Eagle (Liverpool Garston), Clive Efford (Eltham), Louise Ellman (Liverpool Riverside), Natascha Engel (Derbyshire North East), Jeff Ennis (Barnsley East & Mexborough), Bill Etherington (Sunderland North), Paul Farrelly (Newcastle-under-Lyme), Jim Fitzpatrick (Poplar & Canning Town), Robert Flello (Stoke-on-Trent South), Caroline Flint (Don Valley), Barbara Follett (Stevenage), Michael Foster (Worcester), Michael Jabez Foster (Hastings & Rye), Hywel Francis (Aberavon), Mike Gapes (Ilford South), Barry Gardiner (Brent North), Bruce George (Walsall South), Dr Ian Gibson (Norwich North), Linda Gilroy (Plymouth Sutton), Paul Goggins (Wythenshawe & Sale East), Helen Goodman (Bishop Auckland), Nia Griffith (Llanelli), Nigel Griffiths (Edinburgh South), John Grogan (Selby), Andrew Gwynne (Denton & Reddish), Peter Hain (Neath), Mike Hall (Weaver Vale), David Hamilton (Midlothian), Fabian Hamilton (Leeds North East), David Hanson (Delyn), Harriet Harman (Camberwell & Peckham), Tom Harris (Glasgow South), Dai Havard (Merthyr Tydfil & Rhymney), John Healey (Wentworth), Doug Henderson (Newcastle upon Tyne North), Mark Hendrick (Preston), Stephen Hepburn (Jarrow), John Heppell (Nottingham East), Stephen Hesford (Wirral West), Patricia Hewitt (Leicester West), David Heyes (Ashton under Lyne), Keith Hill (Streatham), Meg Hillier (Hackney South & Shoreditch), Margaret Hodge (Barking), Sharon Hodgson (Gateshead East & Washington West), Jimmy Hood (Lanark & Hamilton East), Geoff Hoon (Ashfield), Phil Hope (Corby), George Howarth (Knowsley North & Sefton East), Kim Howells (Pontypridd), Beverley Hughes (Stretford & Urmston), Joan Humble (Blackpool North & Fleetwood), John Hutton (Barrow & Furness), Brian Iddon (Bolton South East), Eric Illsley (Barnsley Central), Adam Ingram (East Kilbride, Strathaven & Lesmahagow), Huw Irranca-Davies (Ogmore), Sian James (Swansea East), Brian Jenkins (Tamworth), Alan Johnson (Hull West & Hessle), Diana Johnson (Hull North), Helen Jones (Warrington North), Kevan Jones (Durham North), Martyn Jones (Clwyd South), Tessa Jowell (Dulwich & West Norwood), Eric Joyce (Falkirk), Sir Gerald Kaufman (Manchester Gorton), Sally Keeble (Northampton North), Barbara Keeley (Worsley), Alan Keen (Feltham & Heston), Ann Keen (Brentford & Isleworth), Ruth Kelly (Bolton West), Fraser Kemp (Houghton & Washington East), Jane Kennedy (Liverpool Wavertree), Sadiq Khan (Tooting), David Kidney (Stafford), Peter Kilfoyle (Liverpool Walton), Jim Knight (Dorset South), Ashok Kumar (Middlesbrough South & Cleveland East), Stephen Ladyman (Thanet South), David Lammy (Tottenham), Bob Laxton (Derby North), Mark Lazarowicz (Edinburgh North & Leith), David Lepper (Brighton Pavilion), Tom Levitt (High Peak), Ivan Lewis (Bury South), Martin Linton (Battersea), Tony Lloyd (Manchester Central), Andy Love (Edmonton), Ian Lucas (Wrexham), Tommy McAvoy (Rutherglen & Hamilton West), Christine McCafferty (Calder Valley), Kerry McCarthy (Bristol East), Sarah McCarthy-Fry (Portsmouth North), Siobhain McDonagh (Mitcham & Morden), Pat McFadden (Wolverhampton South East), John McFall (Dunbartonshire West), James McGovern (Dundee West), Anne McGuire (Stirling), Shona McIsaac (Cleethorpes), Ann McKechin (Glasgow North), Rosemary McKenna (Cumbernauld, Kilsyth & Kirkintilloch East), Andrew Mackinlay (Thurrock), Tony McNulty (Harrow East), Denis MacShane (Rotherham), Fiona Mactaggart (Slough), Khalid Mahmood (Birmingham Perry Barr), Shahid Malik (Dewsbury), Judy Mallaber (Amber Valley), John Mann (Bassetlaw), Rob Marris (Wolverhampton South West), Gordon Marsden (Blackpool South), Bob Marshall-Andrews (Medway), Eric Martlew (Carlisle), Michael Meacher (Oldham West & Royton), Alan Meale (Mansfield), Gillian Merron (Lincoln), Alun Michael (Cardiff South & Penarth), Alan Milburn (Darlington), David Miliband (South Shields), Ed Miliband (Doncaster North), Andrew Miller (Ellesmere Port & Neston), Laura Moffatt (Crawley), Chris Mole (Ipswich), Madeleine Moon (Bridgend), Margaret Moran (Luton South), Jessica Morden (Newport East), Julie Morgan (Cardiff North), Elliot Morley (Scunthorpe), Kali Mountford (Colne Valley), Chris Mullin (Sunderland South), Meg Munn (Sheffield Heeley), Jim Murphy (Renfrewshire East), Paul Murphy (Torfaen), Doug Naysmith (Bristol North West), Dan Norris (Wansdyke), Mike O’Brien (Warwickshire North), Eddie O’Hara (Knowsley South), Bill Olner (Nuneaton), Sandra Osborne (Ayr, Carrick & Cumnock), Albert Owen (Ynys Mon), Nick Palmer (Broxtowe), Ian Pearson (Dudley South), James Plaskitt (Warwick & Leamington), Greg Pope (Hyndburn), Stephen Pound (Ealing North), Bridget Prentice (Lewisham East), Gordon Prentice (Pendle), Dawn Primarolo (Bristol South), Gwyn Prosser (Dover), Ken Purchase (Wolverhampton North East), James Purnell (Stalybridge & Hyde), Bill Rammell (Harlow), Nick Raynsford (Greenwich & Woolwich), Andy Reed (Loughborough), Jamie Reed (Copeland), John Reid (Airdrie & Shotts), Linda Riordan (Halifax), John Robertson (Glasgow North West), Geoffrey Robinson (Coventry North West), Terry Rooney (Bradford North), Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd), Joan Ruddock (Lewisham Deptford), Christine Russell (Chester, City of), Joan Ryan (Enfield North), Martin Salter (Reading West), Mohammad Sarwar (Glasgow Central), Alison Seabeck (Plymouth Devonport), Virendra Sharma (Ealing Southall), Jonathan Shaw (Chatham & Aylesford), Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield), Jimmy Sheridan (Paisley & Renfrewshire North), Sion Simon (Birmingham Erdington), Marsha Singh (Bradford West), Andrew Slaughter (Ealing Acton & Shepherd’s Bush), Andrew Smith (Oxford East), Angela C Smith (Sheffield Hillsborough), Angela E Smith (Basildon), Geraldine Smith (Morecambe & Lunesdale), Jacqui Smith (Redditch), John Smith (Vale of Glamorgan), Anne Snelgrove (Swindon South), Sir Peter Soulsby (Leicester South), Helen Southworth (Warrington South), John Spellar (Warley), Phyllis Starkey Milton Keynes South West), Howard Stoate (Dartford), Gavin Strang (Edinburgh East), Jack Straw (Blackburn), Gerry Sutcliffe (Bradford South), Mark Tami (Alyn & Deeside), Dari Taylor (Stockton South), Gareth Thomas (Harrow West), Emily Thornberry (Islington South & Finsbury), Stephen Timms (East Ham), Paddy Tipping (Sherwood), Mark Todd (Derbyshire South), Don Touhig (Islwyn), Jon Trickett (Hemsworth), Desmond Turner (Brighton Kemptown), Neil Turner (Wigan), Derek Twigg (Halton), Kitty Ussher (Burnley), Keith Vaz (Leicester East), Joan Walley (Stoke-on-Trent North), Lynda Waltho (Stourbridge), Tom Watson (West Bromwich East), Dave Watts (St Helens North), Alan Whitehead (Southampton Test), Malcolm Wicks (Croydon North), Alan Williams (Swansea West), Betty Williams (Conwy), Michael Wills (Swindon North), Phil Wilson (Sedgefield), David Winnick (Walsall North), Rosie Winterton (Doncaster Central), Shaun Woodward (St Helens South), Phil Woolas (Oldham East & Saddleworth), Anthony Wright (Great Yarmouth), David Wright (Telford), Iain Wright (Hartlepool), Derek Wyatt (Sittingbourne & Sheppey)

Conservatives:
Kenneth Clarke (Rushcliffe), David Curry (Skipton & Ripon), John Gummer (Suffolk Coastal)


The following abstained on the voted against a referendum:
Labour:
Diane Abbott (Hackney North & Stoke Newington), John Battle (Leeds West), Ann Cryer (Keighley), Paul Flynn (Newport West), Neil Gerrard (Walthamstow), Patrick Hall (Bedford), Glenda Jackson (Hampstead & Highgate), Ian McCartney (Makerfield), John MacDougall (Glenrothes), John Prescott (Hull East), Ian Stewart (Eccles), Rudi Vis (Finchley & Golders Green), Claire Ward (Watford), Tony Wright (Cannock Chase).

Lib Dem:
Danny Alexander (Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch & Strathspey), Norman Baker (Lewes), John Barrett (Edinburgh West), Alan Beith (Berwick-upon-Tweed), Tom Brake (Carshalton & Wallington), Colin Breed (Cornwall South East), Jeremy Browne (Taunton), Malcolm Bruce (Gordon), Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam), Lorely Burt (Solihull), Vincent Cable (Twickenham), Sir Menzies Campbell (Fife North East), Nick Clegg (Sheffield Hallam), Edward Davey (Kingston & Surbiton), Lynne Featherstone (Hornsey & Wood Green), Don Foster (Bath), Julia Goldsworthy (Falmouth & Camborne), Evan Harris (Oxford West & Abingdon), Nick Harvey (Devon North), David Howarth (Cambridge), Simon Hughes (Southwark North & Bermondsey), Chris Huhne (Eastleigh), Mark Hunter (Cheadle), Paul Keetch (Hereford), Charles Kennedy (Ross, Skye & Lochaber), Susan Kramer (Richmond Park), Norman Lamb (Norfolk North), David Laws (Yeovil), John Leech (Manchester Withington), Michael Moore (Berwickshire, Roxburgh & Selkirk), Mark Oaten (Winchester), Lembit Opik (Montgomeryshire), Alan Reid (Argyll & Bute), Willie Rennie (Dunfermline & Fife West), Dan Rogerson (Cornwall North), Paul Rowen (Rochdale), Bob Russell (Colchester), Adrian Sanders (Torbay), Sir Robert Smith (Aberdeenshire West & Kincardine), Andrew Stunell (Hazel Grove), Jo Swinson (Dunbartonshire East), Matthew Taylor (Truro & St Austell), Sarah Teather (Brent East), John Thurso (Caithness, Sutherland & Easter Ross), Steve Webb (Northavon), Mark Williams (Ceredigion), Roger Williams (Brecon & Radnorshire), Stephen Williams (Bristol West), Phil Willis (Harrogate & Knaresborough), Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central)

Conservative:
John Maples (Stratford-on-Avon), Ian Taylor (Esher & Walton)

Northern Ireland parties:
Jeffrey Donaldson (Lagan Valley), Ian Paisley (Antrim North), Iris Robinson (Strangford)
Mark Durkan (Foyle), Alasdair McDonnell (Belfast South), Eddie McGrady (Down South)

Others:
Independent Conservative: Andrew Pelling (Croydon Central)
Ex-Labour: Clare Short (Birmingham Ladywood)



I hope the electorate remember the names of the guilty come election time, I know I will.



The Telegraph has a full list on their site as well.