Lazy Git for Labour Deputy Leader?

Together with Roger Godsiff (Labour), Tom Watson MP had the worst voting record in Parliament from 2010 to 2015 at just 49.2%* - thus missing as much as one in every two votes - and yet a moronic 29.6%** of the voting population of run-down West Bromwich East re-elected The Rutting Walrus for another five year term!

Quite what this 29.6% think Ten Bellies has done for the benighted constituency is something of a mystery. He was, of course, caught up in the MP's expenses scandal and perhaps this was viewed as a good thing by the lumpen proletariat of West Brom - so far away from the Watson household in, er, trendy Bermondsey, London. Unfortunately, Watson's girlfriend failed to get elected and so he was not quite laughing all the way to the bank on election night.

Appalling voting record

Yet the "Part-Time Parliamentarian" was so confident of these thickos turning out he hardly bothered to campaign in his own constituency at all - although his very active campaigning anywhere but West Brom hardly did the national party much good! (Incidentally, Ten Bellies was often campaigning with "coke and hookers" Steve Coogan following Red(-faced) Ed Miliband's decision to "weaponise the NHS" and under a "Save the NHS" banner. I am still waiting for an answer to my question whether Steve Coogan enjoys NHS treatment or usually goes "private" eg when he had his drug rehabilitation treatment.)

But notwithstanding his dire voting record The Walrus has felt able to blog recently about changes he thinks should be made in the governance of the House of Commons he so infrequently attends (or at least votes in) - what a guy!

When Watson has actually felt able to get off his substantial arse and waddle through the division lobby at Westminster his actual voting record makes rather interesting reading for this great "Tribune of the Left". Here are a few extracts from the website "TheyWorkForYou" (or not, as the case may be...)

Voted moderately for laws to promote equality and human rights (although he was also happy to address a gender-segregated meeting to win tawdry Labour a few more votes):

Voted moderately for replacing Trident with a new nuclear weapons system
Voted very strongly for the Iraq war
Voted very strongly against an investigation into the Iraq war
Voted moderately for more EU integration
Voted strongly against raising the threshold at which people start to pay income tax
Has never voted on an annual tax on the value of expensive homes (popularly known as a mansion tax)
Voted moderately against measures to reduce tax avoidance

Voted very strongly for introducing foundation hospitals (another Labour NHS triumph!):

Voted strongly against fewer MPs in the House of Commons (turkey/Christmas)
Voted strongly against a transparent Parliament

Voted a mixture of for and against greater autonomy for schools
Voted a mixture of for and against academy schools

Voted moderately against local councils keeping money raised from taxes on business premises in their areas
Voted a mixture of for and against a more proportional system for electing MPs
Voted a mixture of for and against a wholly elected House of Lords
Voted a mixture of for and against transferring more powers to the Scottish Parliament (not good news for his chances in what is left of the Labour Party north of the border)
Voted strongly for a stricter asylum system
Voted very strongly for introducing ID cards

Voted moderately against a statutory register of lobbyists (perhaps no surprise here as Ten Bellies is still refusing to confirm whether the man who made cash donations to his constituency party is multi-millionaire gambler & campaigner/lobbyist Derek Webb) 

Voted moderately against limits on success fees paid to lawyers in no-win no fee cases
Voted a mixture of for and against higher taxes on alcoholic drinks (couldn't organise a p*ss-up in a brewery!)

And on the last subject we must not forget that this buffoon actually voted the wrong way in a division on one of his own campaigns!

Of course, this strutting egomaniac (who is claiming that he single-handedly closed down the News of the Screws) is now standing for the post of Deputy Leader of the failed Labour Party despite his appalling voting record!!!!! At the end of the day he is the mighty Unite the Union's man but has gone on a Californian website to raise cash for his campaign from stupid suckers who don't realise this instead. He says that he will declare the loot these prats give him in the Parliamentary Register of Interests which will be interesting as some of the crazed donors meddling in Labour internal politics may be foreigners and some are claiming anonymity! (Lest we forget Unite's hard-pressed members already fund him and paid thousands for his jolly to the United States on one of his anti-Murdoch flounces). I expect that the Californian company pays a nice round figure of UK corporation tax on its business - er, zero - and I feel sure that the good folk of deprived Sandwell and beyond will all wish to give generously to this intellectual titan of the left!

PS The mystery why someone very close to The Walrus has been briefing that he did not get a degree from Hull Uni remains unresolved.

* http://www.sunnation.co.uk/exposed-the-24-mps-with-the-worst-attendance-records/

** Electorate 63,637; Morons who voted "Watson" 18,817.

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