UK MPs - 2015 Parliament

[Phony Moderate]

This is something I sort of started doing five years ago (someone else first did it a few years prior to that) but abandoned it for whatever reason. Basically this will go through the MPs alphabetically, one per day. That's all.........actually no. That would be as boring as feck. What I would encourage is other posters providing info and comments on each (if they can...given the high number of SNP nonentities...). I will also do so (again, where I can).
 

First up is....

Diane Abbott (Labour - Hackney North and Stoke Newington)

A well-known name to kick this off, thankfully. First elected in 1987 (along with Bernie Grant and Paul Boetang - also left-wing black Londoners) it is fair to say that she enjoys the media spotlight, having appeared regularly on the This Week sofa since 2003 (though less frequently since 2010) alongside Michael Portillo. Occasionally her tendency to express her views bluntly has backfired on both her and the party. Had a minor role in the Shadow Cabinet during the previous Parliament after contesting the leadership in 2010. One of the few remaining Campaign Group MPs. Currently seeking the Labour candidacy for Mayor of London.

[Hifly]

Told her office very bluntly yesterday that I wouldn't be supporting her for Mayor of London when they phoned up.
Sends her kids to private schools but also criticizes them at the same time. Damaging and controversial figure within the party.

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Sends her kids to private schools but also criticizes them at the same time. Damaging and controversial figure within the party.

The classic labour mistake. Almost as traditional as when family values Tories are found with rent boys.

Needless to say, a strange person.

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

Dianne Abbott is the Sheila Jackson Lee of Britain, isn't she?

[Phony Moderate]

Debbie Abrahams (Labour - Oldham East and Saddleworth)

Elected in 2011 in the first by-election of the previous Parliament, which was held following the previous MP Phil Woolas's...issues.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

An intelligent left-wing backbencher with genuine expertise on certain issues: quite the contrast with her predecessor! Married to John Abrahams (captain of Lancashire County Cricket Club in the mid 1980s).

[Phony Moderate]

Nigel Adams (Conservative - Selby and Ainsty)

zzz

[Phony Moderate]

Adam Afriyie (Conservative - Windsor)

I suppose it is a sign of progress that Windsor is represented by a black man. He's one of the leading Eurosceptic 'bastards' IIRC.

[Torie]

At the rate this thread is going, we will hit the next General election before we get to anywhere near the end of the alphabet.

[Phony Moderate]

At the rate this thread is going, we will hit the next General election before we get to anywhere near the end of the alphabet.

Yeah, the 2017 snap election (if I keep to one per day).

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Afriyie is pretty much worthless.

[Torie]

Afriyie is pretty much worthless.

How far down the alphabet might one be expected to go, before you say something nice about a Tory Al? 

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Remember all those times last parliament when the media pushed Afriyie to run for PM, and promised that he would lead the much anticipated TorYBackbenchRebellion? Good times. I always wondered what the source of all that silliness was.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Indeed. It's curious though... I mean... they oversold Chuka Umunna a lot as well. Are there senior journalists with a thing for half Nigerian half white men?

[ObserverIE]

Indeed. It's curious though... I mean... they oversold Chuka Umunna a lot as well. Are there senior journalists with a thing for half Nigerian half white men?

Ghanaian.

[Phony Moderate]

Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh (SNP - Ochil and South Perthshire)

One of the more visible members of the SNP intake. Has been a member of the Labour and Conservative Parties in the past.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Indeed. It's curious though... I mean... they oversold Chuka Umunna a lot as well. Are there senior journalists with a thing for half Nigerian half white men?

Ghanaian.

Indeed. I appear to have confused the pair of them with Simfan for a moment there. Embarrassing.

[ObserverIE]

Indeed. It's curious though... I mean... they oversold Chuka Umunna a lot as well. Are there senior journalists with a thing for half Nigerian half white men?

Ghanaian.

Indeed. I appear to have confused the pair of them with Simfan for a moment there. Embarrassing.

Umunna is half-Nigerian. Isn't Simfan half-Ethiopian or am I assuming incorrectly?

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Right, yeah. The other half being posh Irish. My God this discussion looks so much worse than it actually is.

Half Nigeria Half Ethiopian IIRC.

[Simfan34]

Right, yeah. The other half being posh Irish. My God this discussion looks so much worse than it actually is.

Half Nigeria Half Ethiopian IIRC.

Not quite. Ghanaian. Although I could see how one might mix me up with Chukka Ummuna... what business does he have in Labour anyway?

It's a shame about Afriyie- he seemed to have been going places before he went all rebel. I suppose such tendencies were always there though, hence why he never made the jump from Shadow Cabinet to the real thing.

Well, at least we still have Kwasi Kwarteng. And the Ethiopians have...uhh... that guy who beat Mandelson to become the Chancellor of some university recently. Even if he's not a politician.

Edit: That would be Lemn Sissay, new Chancellor of the University of Manchester. I suspect if we had elections to analogous posts at American universities, they would be nowhere near as interesting.

[Phony Moderate]

Peter Aldous (Conservative - Waveney)

Would almost certainly have lost his seat in May had the polls been right.

[Phony Moderate]

Heidi Alexander (Labour - Lewisham East)

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Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh (SNP - Ochil and South Perthshire)

One of the more visible members of the SNP intake. Has been a member of the Labour and Conservative Parties in the past.

She strikes me as somebody who looks better than she thinks (or indeed, speaks)

[Phony Moderate]

Rushanara Ali (Labour    - Bethnal Green and Bow)

Was a candidate for the Deputy Leadership but withdrew after it became clear that she did not have the numbers to make the ballot.  

[Simfan34]

Heidi Alexander (Labour - Lewisham East)

What about her?