My local MP is Martin Linton. He was one of the people who got into parliament on the back of Labour’s massive landslide victory in 1997, so he’s understandably a bit “New Labour” for my tastes.
Like many MPs, he has his own web site and unlike many MPs he (or his staff) even keep it pretty much up to date. There do, however, seem to be a few omissions. I’ve suggested at least some of these to the webmaster, but my emails go ignored.
In 1998, Martin Linton co-authored a rather good book on electoral reform called Making votes Count. Of course, electoral reform isn’t high on New Labour’s list of priorities, so he doesn’t like to talk about it now.
There are a couple of good UK web sites for keeping track of your MP’s attendance an voting patterns in parliament. I think that MPs don’t like to link to them on their web sites as it shows up how rarely the average back-bencher actually bothers speaking or voting. So anyway here are link to Martin Linton’s pages on PublicWhip.org (which tracks attendance and voting) and TheyWorkForYou.com (which tracks speeches).
I’m hoping that this site’s relatively high googlejuice will mean that this entry will become a pretty high-ranking result if you search for Martin Linton so that these pages can be found by more of his constituents. I’d encourage others to do the same for their MP.
Actually, I notice that a previous entry about him is currently at number six.