THE TORY SHAME: Public Sector Pay Cap

THE TORY SHAME

PUBLIC SECTOR PAY CAP

LONDON, ENGLAND – JUNE 27: Nurses stage a protest outside the Department of Health on June 27, 2017 in London, England. The Royal College of Nursing have launched a series of demonstrations, as part of their ‘Summer of Protest’ campaigning against the 1% cap on annual pay rises for most NHS staff. (Photo by Carl Court/Getty Images)

Despite years of protestations that austerity must remain and public sector workers were put on a 1% pay cap, last week the Conservatives found £1.5bn to buy their way in to power as they paid the dubious DUP thus enabling them to form a majority government.  So whilst nurses are visiting foodbanks because inflation has risen and pay hasn’t, the government had obviously been nurturing that ‘Magic Money Tree’ they like to keep wittering on about.

If this wasn’t bad enough, last night a vote was held in the Commons as Labour proposed an amendment to the Queen’s Speech and drop the public sector pay cap.  They lost by 323 to 309.  That in itself is shameful, but worse was to come.  When the speaker announced the result, the Tories shouted, cheered, whooped and celebrated with little forethought about how their actions would be perceived.  In short, they exposed their repugnant and downright condescending views and by doing so, also showed how far removed they are from reality.

Rightly so, many are up in arms over the crass behaviour of the Tory back benches.  Twitter was awash with cries of disgust, with people quite rightly pointing out that the public sector workers are the very same people who risked their lives to save people in Grenfell Tower, or who ignore danger to help those involved in the recent terror attacks in Manchester and London, or people just like PC Keith Palmer who lost his life protecting the ghastly unthinking people who have such short memories of the sacrifices made by the public servants and their families.  PC Palmer had more respect and honour than any of those revolting people who jeered last night.

Here is a list of all those MPs who voted against giving a pay rise to our selfless emergency services.  If they have a Twitter account, I have included the link.  Feel free to copy the following picture and remind them just what they were voting for.  Demand an apology.  Hold these people to account.  They are meant to represent us – well that vote and those cheers don’t represent me!

C = Conservatives      DUP = DUP (obvs!)

• ADAMS, Nigel: C: Selby & Ainsty
• AFOLAMI, Bim: C: Hitchin & Harpenden
• AFRIYIE, Adam: C: Windsor
• ALDOUS, Peter: C: Waveney
• ALLAN, Lucy: C: Telford
• ALLEN, Heidi: C: South Cambridgeshire
• ANDREW, Stuart: C: Pudsey, Horsforth & Aireborough
• ARGAR, Edward: C: Charnwood
• ATKINS, Victoria: C: Louth & Horncastle
• BACON, Richard: C: South Norfolk
• BADENOCH, Kemi: C: Saffron Walden
• BAKER, Steve: C: Wycombe
• BALDWIN, Harriett: C: West Worcestershire
• BARCLAY, Stephen: C: NE Cambridgeshire
• BARON, John: C: Basildon & Billericay
• BEBB, Guto: C: Aberconwy
• BELLINGHAM, Sir Henry: C: NW Norfolk
• BENYON, RH Richard: C: Newbury
• BERESFORD, Sir Paul: C: Mole Valley
• BERRY, Jake: C: Rossendale & Darwen
• BLACKMAN, Bob: C: Harrow E
• BLUNT, Crispin: C: Reigate
• BOLES, Nick: C: Grantham & Stamford
• BONE, Peter: C: Wellingborough
• BOTTOMLEY, Sir Peter: C: Worthing West
• BOWIE, Andrew C: C: Aberdeenshire & Kincardine
• BRADLEY, Ben: C: Mansfield
• BRADLEY, rh Karen: C: Staffordshire Moorlands
• BRADY, Graham: C: Altrincham & Sale W
• BRERETON, Jack: C: Stoke on Trent S
• BRIDGEN, Andrew: C: NW Leicester
• BRINE, Steve: C: Winchester & Chandler
• BROKENSHIRE, rh James: C: Old Bexley & Sidcup
• BRUCE, Fiona: C: Congleton
• BUCKLAND, Robert: C: S Swindon
• BURGHART, Alex: C: Brentwood & Ongar
• BURNS, Conor: C: Bournemouth W
• BURT, rh Alistair: C: NE Bedfordshire
• CAIRNS, rh Alun: C: Vale of Glamorgan
• CAMPBELL, Gregory: DUP: E Londonderry/Derry
• CARTLIDGE, James: C: S Suffolk
• CASH, Sir Bill: C: Stone
• CAULFIELD, Maria: C: Lewes
• CHALK, Alex: C: Cheltenham
• CHISHTI, Rehman: C: Gillingham & Rainham
• CHOPE, Christopher: C: Christchurch
• CHURCHILL, Jo: C: Bury St Edmunds
• CLARK, Colin: C: Gordon
• CLARK, rh Greg: C: Tunbridge Wells
• CLARKE, rh Kenneth: C: Rushcliffe
• CLARKE, Simon: C: Middlesborough South & East Cleveland
• CLEVERLY, James: C: Braintree
• CLIFTON-BROWN, Geoffrey: C: Cotswolds
• COFFEY, Dr Therese: C: Suffolk Coastal
• COLLINS, Damian: C: Folkestone & Hythe
• COSTA, Alberto: C: S Leicestershire
• COURTS, Robert: C: Witney
• COX, Geoffrey: C: Torridge & W Devon
• CRABB, rh Stephen: C: Preseli Pembrokeshire
• CROUCH, Tracey: C: Chatham & Aylesford
• DAVIES, Chris: C: Brecon & Radnorshire
• DAVIES, David T C: C: Monmouth
• DAVIES, Glyn: C: Montgomeryshire
• DAVIES, Mims: C: Eastleigh
• DAVIES, Philip: C: Shipley
• DAVIS, rh David: C: Haltemprice & Howden
• DINENAGE, Caroline: C: Gosport
• DJANOGLY, Jonathan: C: Huntingdon
• DOCHERTY, Leo: C: Aldershot
• DOCKERILL, Julia: C: Hornchurch & Upminster
• DODDS, rh Nigel: DUP: N Belfast
• DONALDSON, rh Sir Jeffrey: DUP: Lagan Valley
• DONELAN, Michelle: C: Chippenham
• DORRIES, Nadine: C: Mid Bedfordshire (I’m blocked for some reason!!)
• DOUBLE, Steve: C: St Austell & Newquay
• DOWDEN, Oliver: C: Hertsmere
• DOYLE-PRICE, Jackie: C: Thurrock
• DRAX, Richard: C: S Dorset
• DUDDRIDGE, James: C: Rochford & Southend E
• DUGUID, David: C: Banff & Buchan
• DUNCAN, rh Sir Alan: C: Rutland & Melton
• DUNCAN SMITH, rh Iain: C: Chingford & Woodford Green
• DUNNE, Philip: C: Ludlow
• ELLIS, Michael: C: Northampton North
• ELLWOOD, rh Tobias: C: Bournemouth E
• ELPHICKE, Charlie: C: Dover
• EUSTICE, George: C: Camborne, Redruth & Hayle
• EVANS, Nigel: C: Ribble Valley
• EVENNETT, rh David: C: Bexleyheath & Crayford
• FABRICANT, Michael: C: Lichfield
• FALLON, rh Sir Michael: C: Sevenoaks
• FERNANDES, Suella: C: Fareham
• FIELD, rh Mark: C: Cities of London & Westminster
• FORD, Vicky: C: Chelmsford
• FOSTER, Kevin: C: Torbay
• FOX, rh Dr Liam: C: N Somerset
• FRANCOIS, rh Mark: C: Rayleigh & Wickford
• FRAZER, Lucy: C: SE Cambridgeshire
• FREEMAN, George: C: Mid Norfolk
• FREER, Mike: C: Finchley & Golders Green
• FYSH, Marcus: C: Yeovil
• GALE, Sir Roger: C: N Thanet
• GARNIER, Mark: C: Wyre Forest
• GAUKE, rh David: C: SW Hertfordshire
• GHANI, Nusrat: C: Wealden
• GIBB, rh Nick: C: Bognor Regis & Littlehampton
• GILLAN, rh Cheryl: C: Chesham & Amersham
• GIRVAN, Paul: DUP: South Antrim
• GLEN, John: C: Salisbury
• GOLDSMITH, Zac: C: Richmond Park
• GOODWILL, Robert: C: Scarborough & Whitby
• GOVE rh Michael: C: Surrey Heath
• GRAHAM, Luke: C: Ochil & S Perthshire
• GRAHAM, Richard: C: Gloucester
• GRANT, Bill: C: Ayr, Carrick & Cumnock
• GRANT, Helen: C: Maidstone & The Weald
• GRAY, James: C: North Wiltshire
• GRAYLING, rh Chris: C: Epsom & Ewell
• GREEN, Chris: C: Bolton W
• GREEN, rh Damien: C: Ashford
• GREENING, rh Justine: C: Putney
• GRIEVE, rh Dominic: C: Beaconsfield
• GYIMAH, Sam: C: East Surrey
• HAIR, Kirstene: C: Angus
• HALFON, rh Robert: C: Harlow
• HALL, Luke: C: Thornbury & Yate
• HAMMOND, rh Philip: C: Runnymede & Weybridge
• HAMMOND, Stephen: C: Wimbledon
• HANCOCK, rh Matt: C: West Sussex
• HANDS, rh Greg: C: Chelsea & Fulham
• HARPER, rh Mark: C: Forest of Dean
• HARRINGTON, Richard: C: Watford
• HARRIS, Rebecca: C: Castle Point
• HARRISON, Trudy: C: Copeland
• HART, Simon: C: Carmarthen West
• HAYES, rh John: C: South Holland
• HEALD, rh Sir Oliver: C: NE Hertfordshire
• HEAPPEY, James: C: Wells
• HEATON-HARRIS, Chris: C: Daventry
• HEATON-JONES, Peter: C: North Devon
• HENDERSON, Gordon: C: Sittingbourne & Sheppey
• HERBERT, rh Nick: C: Arundel & South Downs
• HINDS, Damian: C: East Hampshire
• HOARE, Simon: C: North Dorset
• HOLLINGBERY, George: C: Meon Valley
• HOLLINRAKE, Kevin: C: Thirsk & Malton
• HOLLOBONE, Philip: C: Kettering
• HOLLOWAY, Adam: C: Gravesham
• HOWELL, John: C: Henley
• HUDDLESTON, Nigel: C: Mid Worcestershire
• HUGHES, Eddie: C: Walsall North
• HUNT, rh Jeremy: C: South West Surrey
• HURD, Nick: C: Ruislip, Northwood & Pinner
• JACK, Alister: C: Dumfries & Galloway
• JAMES, Margot: C: Stourbridge
• JAVID, rh Sajid: C: Bromsgrove
• JAYAWARDENA, Ranil: C: NE Hampshire
• JENKIN, Bernard: C: Harwich & North Essex
• JENKYNS, Andrea: C: Morley & Outwood
• JENRICK, Robert: C: Newark & Bingham
• JOHNSON, rh Boris: C: Uxbridge & South Ruislip
• JOHNSON, Dr Caroline: C: Sleaford & North Hykeham
• JOHNSON, Gareth: C: Dartford
• JOHNSON, Joseph: C: Orpington
• JONES, Andrew: C: Harrogate & Knaresborough
• JONES, rh David: C: Clwyd West
• JONES, Marcus: C: Nuneaton
• KAWCZYNSKI, Daniel: C: Shrewsbury & Atcham
• KEEGAN, Gillian: C: Chichester
• KENNEDY, Seema: C: South Ribble
• KERR, Stephen: C: Stirling
• KNIGHT, rh Sir Greg: C: East Yorkshire
• KNIGHT, Julian: C: Solihull
• KWARTENG, Kwasi: C: Spelthorne
• LAMONT, John: C: Berwickshire, Roxburgh & Selkirk
• LANCASTER, Mark: C: Milton Keynes N
• LATHAM, Pauline: C: Mid Derbyshire
• LEADSOM, rh Andrea: C: South Northamptonshire
• LEE, Dr Phillip: C: Bracknell
• LEFROY, Jeremy: C: Stafford
• LEIGH, Sir Edward: C: Gainsborough
• LETWIN, rh Sir Oliver: C: West Dorset
• LEWER, Andrew: C: East Midlands
• LEWIS, rh Brandon: C: Great Yarmouth
• LEWIS, rh Dr Julian: C: New Forest East
• LIDELL-GRAINGER, Ian: C: Bridgwater & Somerset
• LIDINGTON, rh David: C: Aylesbury
• LITTLE PENGELLY, Emma: DUP: Belfast South
• LOPRESTI, Jack: C: Filton & Bradley Stoke
• LORD, Jonathan: C: Woking
• LOUGHTON, Tim: C: East Worthing & Shoreham
• MACKINLAY, Craig: C: South Thanet
• MACLEAN, Rachel: C: Redditch
• MAIN, Anne: C: St Albans
• MAK, Alan: C: Havant
• MALTHOUSE, Kit: C: NW Hampshire
• MANN, Scott: C: North Cornwall
• MASTERTON, Paul: C: East Renfrewshire
• MAY, rh Theresa: C: Maidenhead (sociopathic dictator)
• MAYNARD, Paul: C: Blackpool North & Cleveleys
• McLOUGHLIN, rh Sir Patrick: C: Derbyshire Dales
• McPARTLAND, Stephen: C: Stevenage, Herts
• McVEY, rh Esther: C: Tatton
• MENZIES, Mark: C: Fylde
• MERCER, Johnny: C: Plymouth Moor View
• MERRIMAN, Huw: C: Bexhill & Battle
• METCALFE, Stephen: C: Basildon & East Thurrock
• MILLER, rh Maria: C: Basingstoke
• MILLING, Amanda: C: Cannock Chase
• MILLS, Nigel: C: Amber Valley
• MILTON, rh Anne: C: Guildford
• MITCHELL, rh Andrew: C: Sutton Coldfield
• MOORE, Damien: C: Southport
• MORDAUNT, Penny: C: Portsmouth North
• MORGAN, rh Nicky: C: Loughborough
• MORRIS, Anne Marie: C: Newton Abbot
• MORRIS, David: C: Morecombe & Lunesdale
• MORRIS, James: C: Halesowen & Rowley Regis
• MORTON, Wendy: C: Aldridge-Brownhills
• MUNDELL, rh David: C: Dumfriesshire
• MURRAY, Sheryll: C: SE Cornwall
• MURRISON, Dr Andrew: C: SW Wiltshire
• NEIL, Robert: C: Bromley & Chislehurst
• NEWTON, Sarah: C: Truro & Falmouth
• NOKES, Caroline: C: Romsey & Southampton North
• NORMAN, Jesse: C: Hereford & South Herefordshire
• O’BRIEN, Neil: C: Harborough
• OFFORD, Dr Matthew: C: Hendon
• OPPERMAN, Guy: C: Hexham
• PAISLEY, Ian: DUP: North Antrim
• PARISH, Neil: C: Tiverton & Honiton
• PATEL, rh Priti: C: Witham
• PATERSON, rh Owen: C: North Shropshire
• PAWSEY, Mark: C: Rugby & Bulkington
• PENNING, rh Mike: C: Hemel Hempstead
• PENROSE, John: C: Weston, Worle & The Villages
• PERCY, Andrew: C: Brigg & Goole
• PERRY, Claire: C: Devizes
• PHILP, Chris: C: Croydon South
• PINCHER, Christopher: C: Tamworth
• POULTER, Dr Dan: C: Central Suffolk & North Ipswich
• POW, Rebecca: C: Taunton Deane
• PRENTIS, Victoria: C: North Oxfordshire
• PRISK, Mark: C: Hertford & Stortford
• PRITCHARD, Mark: C: The Wrekin
• PURSGLOVE, Tom: C: Corby & East Northamptonshire
• QUIN, Jeremy: C: Horsham
• QUINCE, Will: C: Colchester
• RAAB, Dominic: C: Esher & Walton
• REDWOOD, rh John: C: Wokingham, Berks
• REES-MOGG, Jacob: C: NE Somerset
• ROBERTSON, Laurence: C: Tewkesbury
• ROBINSON, Gavin: DUP: Belfast East
• ROBINSON, Mary: C: Cheadle
• ROSINDELL, Andrew: C: Romford
• ROSS, Douglas: C: Moray
• ROWLEY, Lee: C: NE Derbyshire
• RUDD, rh Amber: C: Hastings & Rye
• RUTLEY, David: C: Macclesfield
• SANDBACH, Antoinette: C: Eddisbury
• SCULLY, Paul: C: Sutton & Cheam
• SEELY, Bob: C: Central Wight (Isle of Wight)
• SELOUS, Andrew: C: SW Bedfordshire
• SHANNON, Jim: DUP: Strangford
• SHAPPS, rh Grant: C: Welwyn Hatfield
• SHARMA, Alok: C: Reading West
• SHELBROOKE, Alec: C: Elmett & Rothwell
• SIMPSON, David: DUP: Upper Bann
• SIMPSON, rh Keith: C: Broadland
• SKIDMORE, Chris: C: Kingswood
• SMITH, Chloe: C: Norwich North
• SMITH, Henry: C: Crawley
• SMITH, Julian: C: Skipton & Ripon
• SMITH, Royston: C: Southampton & Itchen
• SOAMES, rh Sir Nicholas: C: Mid Sussex (wardrobe with the key in the door)
• SOUBRY, rh Anna: C: Broxtowe, Notts
• SPELMAN, rh Dame Caroline: C: Meriden
• SPENCER, Mark: C: Sherwood
• STEPHENSON, Andrew: C: Pendle
• STEVENSON, John: C: Carlisle
• STEWART, Bob: C: Beckenham
• STEWART, Iain: C: Milton Keynes South
• STEWART, Rory: C: Penrith & The Border
• STREETER, Gary: C: SW Devon
• STRIDE, rh Mel: C: Central Devon
• STUART, Graham: C: Beverley & Holderness
• STURDY, Julian: C: York Outer
• SUNAK, Rishi: C: Richmond, Yorkshire
• SWAYNE, rh Sir Desmond: C: New Forest West
• SWIRE, rh Sir Hugo: C: East Devon
• SYMS, Robert: C: Poole
• THOMAS, Derek: C: St Ives
• THOMSON, Ross: C: Aberdeen South
• THROUP, Maggie: C: Erewash
• TOLHURST, Kelly: C: Rochester & Strood
• TOMLINSON, Justin: C: Swindon North
• TOMLINSON, Michael: C: Mid Dorset & North Poole
• TRACEY, Craig: C: North Warwickshire
• TREDINNICK, David: C: Bosworth, Leics
• TREVELYAN, Anne-Marie: C: Berwick upon Tweed
• TRUSS, Liz: C: SW Norfolk
• TUGENDHAT, Tom: C: Tonbridge & Malling
• VAIZEY, rh Ed: C: Wantage & Didcot
• VARA, Shailesh: C: NW Cambridgeshire
• VICKERS, Martin: C: Cleethorpes
• VILLIERS, rh Theresa: C: Chipping Barnet
• WALKER, Charles: C: Broxbourne
• WALKER, Robin: C: Worcester
• WALLACE, rh Ben: C: Wyre & Preston
• WARBURTON, David: C: Somerton & Frome
• WARMAN, Matt: C: Boston & Skegness
• WATLING, Giles: C: Clacton
• WHATELY, Helen: C: Faversham & Mid Kent
• WHITTAKER, Craig: C: Calder Valley
• WHITTINGDALE, rh John: C: Maldon
• WIGGIN, Bill: C: North Herefordshire
• WILLIAMSON, rh Gavin: C: South Staffordshire
• WILSON, Sammy: DUP: East Antrim
• WOLLASTON, Dr Sarah: C: Totnes
• WOOD, Mike: C: Dudley
• WRAGG, William: C: Hazel Grove
• WRIGHT, rh Jeremy: C: Kenilworth & Southam
• ZAHAWI, Nadim: C: Stratford-on-Avon

 

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