Check your MPs voting record

28 November 2019

Before you decide who to vote for out of the candidates in your local area, it would be good to check the voting record of your current MP, or of the leaders of the different parties.

You can do this at the following site:

https://www.theyworkforyou.com

If your local school or hospital has had their funding cut, which so many have across the country then you may like to check to see if your current MP voted in favour of those cuts.

Here are some issues you might like to check on to see how they voted:

For or against university tuition fees
For or against cuts to school funding
Spending on welfare benefits
Replacing Trident with a new nucelar weapon system
Reducing central government funding of local government
Remain or leave the European Union
Equal gay rights
Climate change

You can also check any MP by name.

Here is a summary of how Jeremy Corbyn has voted:

Consistently voted for equal gay rights
Consistently voted for smoking bans
Consistently voted for allowing marriage between two people of same sex
Consistently voted against the Iraq war
Generally voted against replacing Trident with a new nuclear weapons system
Generally voted for UK membership of the EU
Consistently voted for raising welfare benefits at least in line with prices
Consistently voted for paying higher benefits over longer periods for those unable to work due to illness or disability
Almost always voted for spending public money to create guaranteed jobs for young people who have spent a long time unemployed
Consistently voted against a reduction in spending on welfare benefits
Almost always voted for a banker’s bonus tax
Consistently voted against reforming the NHS so GPs buy services on behalf of their patients
Consistently voted for restricting the provision of services to private patients by the NHS
Consistently voted for smoking bans
Consistently voted against university tuition fees

https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/10133/jeremycorbyn/islingtonnorth/votes

and Boris Johnson:

Consistently voted for the Iraq war
Generally voted against a right to remain for EU nationals already in living in the UK
Almost always voted for a reduction in spending on welfare benefits
Consistently voted against higher taxes on banks
Generally voted against smoking bans
Voted for reforming the NHS so GPs buy services on behalf of their patients
Generally voted against university tuition fees
Consistently voted for reducing central government funding of local government
Generally voted against transferring more powers to the Scottish Parliament
Consistently voted for mass surveillance of people’s communications and activities
Almost always voted against measures to prevent climate change

https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/10999/borisjohnson/uxbridgeandsouthruislip/votes