Decent MPs - who do you rate?

Sometimes it takes an instinctive moment in time to encapsulate an entire principle. By calling Boris Johnson a liar in the House of Commons and leaving the chamber, Dawn Butler exposed the absurdity of a system which enables those in the highest positions of power to lie with impunity and sanctions those who dare to call this out – all in the name of an archaic convention designed to facilitate honour.

Such a system is vulnerable. It is also dangerous.

Good chaps left the building a while ago, Britain. It’s time to wake up.

Varian's list plus Lisa Nandy, Norman Lamb.

Re Dawn Butler and 'telling it like it is', I see that once challenged she couldn't withdraw, but I also think that 'liar' is banned as a very aggressive word and a direct personal affront, whereas 'that is not true', 'not telling the truth', 'being deliberately deceitful' and so on achieve the same ends and are within the rules.

Our local MP Stephan Kinnock is very involved in our local community and definitely has a finger on the pulse both in our area and in parliament. Previously we hardly ever heard from the local MPs unless they got a slot on TV to comment on some local issue but we often see him out and about in the community.

I agree with the OP. Margaret Becket is good. Also Ed Davey. Wera Hobhouse. Leila Moran. Hillary Benn. Yvette Cooper. David Lammy. Caroline Lucas. Tobias Ellwood. Andrew Mitchell. Absolutely no one in the present cabinet.

Quite a few of the ones listed. Phillips, Nandy, Cooper, Lammy, Starmer. Also liked Rory Stewart and Caroline Lucas. Nicola Sturgeon has been very good too through the pandemic as has her Welsh counterpart. I have a very new MP. Young female. Replaced an absolute disaster of a man. I wasn’t sure about her but she’s very active in the Commons and on a few Committees. She has a weird mouth movement when she speaks which I find distracting but she looks smart and professional and seems enthusiastic. Let’s hope they don’t knock it out of her. I read the book by Isabel Hardman ‘Why we get the wrong Politicians’. It’s clearly very tough to get into parliament if you’re not from a privileged background so respect to those who aren’t and who make it.

Mhairi Black, Phillipa Whitford, Joanna Cherry - knowledgeable and care about their constituents and country. Rory Stewart was, I thought, the best contender for leader of the Tory party. I'll refrain from ranting about others as that wasn't the question.

I’m with you Katy1950. They are all in it for themselves. I think Guy Fawks had the right idea. Just a complete shambles and I wouldn’t trust any one of them.

I really like Caroline Lucas, sadly I live 100's of miles away from her Brighton Pavilion constituency. She wrote a book called Honourable Friends?-Parliament and the fight for change. Really hi-lights the many outdated procedures and traditions that go on.

I like Yvette Cooper and I've always liked Margaret Beckett. Among Tories the only one I've got any time for is Rory Stewart who at least seems intelligent. My own MP is a Tory. He makes a big thing of being ex army but votes for everything the party come up with. I was following him on Facebook but he seems to have blocked me. I suspect he didn't like me telling him what I thought.

I really like David Lammy and Yvette Cooper, both honest and hard working, not like my mp who does not even live here anymore ! Lisa Nandy is good as well.

Angela Eagle used to be our MP before we moved a couple of years ago. I took several problems to her and she was really good - followed things through and checked to see if all was resolved. Our current MP is Justin Madders and he seems to be fairly OK.

My MP Sir Mike Penning has helped with a campaign I was involved with and supports our local fight for a decent local hospital so I have time for him at the moment. In general I don't have time for most MPs, of any party, they're all tarred with the same brush as far as I'm concerned. I'm a floating voter and sometimes I don't even bother.

For a start, any Conservative MP who voted against Johnson as party leader, and any Labour MP who voted against Corbyn. That the last General Election was fought between an unprincipled buffoon and one of the last of Stalin's useful idiots was not their fault.

Apart from that generalisation, all the good ones I can think of have been mentioned already.

I wish Tom Brake and Chris Leslie were still MP’s. I think they’re a great loss to the country and they used to feed off each other in parliament: unfortunately quite often it was late at night and people weren’t listening.

Severnside

Andrew Mitchell for his support for maintaining the full 0.7% grant to overseas development aid. I’ve admired him ever since I saw how genuinely affected he was by the death of Jo Cox. He’s a really good man. If I lived in his constituency, I’d vote for him and I’m a Labour member!

That’s like Ken Clark. His constituency covered quite a poor area of Nottingham but everyone still voted for him because he was so highly respected. I’d forgotten about Andrew Mitchell’s close working relationship with Jo Cox so it’s more obvious to me now why he was so angry in parliament the other week.

Andrew Mitchell for his support for maintaining the full 0.7% grant to overseas development aid. I’ve admired him ever since I saw how genuinely affected he was by the death of Jo Cox. He’s a really good man. If I lived in his constituency, I’d vote for him and I’m a Labour member!

Saetana - What is it you like about Boris Johnson on a personal level? No need for a flak jacket, I'm just genuinely interested to know.

I think Robin Millar, Member of Parliament for Aberconwy is honest and does his very best for his constituency (and no, we are not related in any way!)

Emma Lewell Buck. She stands up for the rights of children in care

Norman Lamb and Chris Bryant - both seem to just get on with the job and make principled stands when necessary.

I've moved three times recently.
My first MP was Thangam Debbonaire - full of integrity and hard working.

Then Liam Fox - famously disgraced/useless/absent.

Now I suffer Ian Richard Peregrine Liddell-Grainger . When I met him in the street I asked him, admittedly not overly politely, about the need for foodbanks. He ran away from me yelling 'I'm going to win the election and you'll have to eat humble pie' over his shoulder.

If I go downhill any faster or further I'll be in hell.

I'm putting on my flak jacket here: Rishi Sunak (proper old fashioned fiscal conservative), Jacob Rees Mogg (I do like someone who is totally unapologetic about being wealthy or upper class) and my backbench favourite Peter Bone - if you haven't seen him speaking in the Commons, with his anecdotes about Mrs Bone, then you have missed a treat. I do sort of like Boris, on a personal level, as Prime Minister though I think he is out of his depth. Oh, and Liz Truss - who is running around the world like the energizer bunny sorting out new trade deals with a large number of countries. The woman definitely deserves a promotion when she has done what she can.

Yes I am a Conservative voter, and am totally unapologetic about it - I cannot name one MP from the Labour benches who I would include in this list. I believe Labour voters are being poorly served by the current opposition. I hope, for the sake of politics in general, this situation changes before the next election.

dawn butler, corbyn, Yvette Cooper, Zarah Sultana, loads more of the Labour ones, Ian Blackford (SNP), Mhari Black (SNP) I love the way they stick up for ordinary folk. I am totally disgusted and horrified by the actions of the Tories, they have their fingers in the treasury and keep awarding their mates lucrative contracts, like Matt Hancock who the Tory press which is newspapers owned by billionaires, have made much of the need to see how photos were taken in his rooms and little of the ethics of awarding a lucrative contract to your sister & a company in which he has shares, then he says he 'didn't know' I learnt to look at what politicians do, not what they say, it makes a big difference.

I have to confess none sprung to mind ?!

Mairi Black and Dawn Butler neither afraid to tell it like it is!