The Rio+20 conference on sustainable development is happening right now (I’ve been blogging about it for the RSPB over the last 20 days).
Stop Climate Chaos produced a Rio declaration and I asked my MP, Louise Mensch to sign up. I got a good detailed reply from Ms Mensch but I noticed that she didn’t say that she would sign up, so I emailed her again to ask her to do so. But she hasn’t.
This is the list of signatures (and here is the link to check new signatures):
- Peter Aldous MP (Con)- Waveney
- Heidi Alexander MP (Lab) – Lewisham East
- Graham Allen MP (Lab) – Nottingham North
- Dave Anderson MP (Lab) – Blaydon
- Jon Ashworth MP (Lab) – Leicester South
- Tony Baldry MP (Con) – Banbury
- Hugh Bayley MP (Lab)- York Central
- Sir Alan Beith MP (LibDem) – Berwick Upon Tweed
- Hilary Benn MP (Lab) – Leeds Central
- Gordon Birtwistle MP (LibDem) – Burnley
- Paul Blomfield MP (Lab) – Sheffield Central
- Chris Bryant MP (Lab) – Rhondda
- Richard Burden MP (Lab)- Birmingham Northfield
- Lorely Burt MP (LibDem) – Solihull
- Alan Campbell MP (Lab)- Tynemouth
- Ronnie Campbell MP (Lab)- Blyth Valley
- Martin Caton MP (Lab) – Gower
- Jeremy Corbyn MP (Lab)- Islington North
- Vernon Coaker MP (Lab)- Gedling
- Jim Cunningham MP (Lab)- Coventry South
- Alex Cunningham MP (Lab) – Stockton North
- Nic Dakin MP (Lab) – Scunthorpe
- Ed Davey MP (LibDem) – Kingston and Surbiton
- Glyn Davies MP (Con) – Montgomeryshire
- Gloria Depiero MP (Lab) – Ashfield and Eastwood
- Jim Dobbin MP (Lab/ Coop) – Heywood and Middleton
- Mark Durkan MP (SDLP) – Foyle
- Natascha Engel MP (Lab) – North East Derbyshire
- Bill Esterson MP (Lab) – Sefton Central
- Tim Farron MP (Lab)- Westmorland and Lonsdale
- Roger Godsiff MP (Lab) – Birmingham Hall Green
- Zac Goldsmith MP (Con)- Richmond Park and North Kingston
- Mary Glindon MP (Lab) – North Tyneside
- James Gray MP (Con) – North Wiltshire
- Nia Griffith MP (Lab) – Lanelli
- Mike Hancock MP (LibDem) – Portsmouth South
- David Hanson MP (Lab) – Delyn
- Tom Harris MP (Lab) – Glasgow South
- John Hemming MP (LibDem) – Birmingham Yardley
- David Heyes MP (Lab) – Ashton-under-Lyne
- Martin Horwood MP (LibDem)- Cheltenham
- Simon Hughes MP (LibDem) – Bermondsey and Old Southwark
- Julian Huppert MP (LibDem) – Cambridge
- John Leech MP (LibDem) – Manchester Withington
- Julian Lewis MP (Con) – New Forest East
- Caroline Lucas MP (Green) – Brighton Pavilion
- Karen Lumley MP (Con) – Redditch
- Kerry McCarthy MP (Lab) – Bristol East
- Jason McCartney MP (Con) – Colne Valley
- Ann McKechin MP (Lab) – Glasgow North
- John McDonnell MP (Lab) – Hayes and Harlington
- Austin Mitchell MP (Lab) – Great Grimsby
- Grahame Morris MP (Lab) – Easington
- Ian Murray MP (Lab) – Edinburgh South
- Guy Opperman MP (Con) – Hexham
- Mike Pawsey MP (Con) – Rugby
- Teresa Pearce MP (Lab) – Erith and Thamesmead
- Dawn Primarolo MP (Lab) – Bristol South
- Simon Reevell MP (Con) – Dewsbury
- Jonathan Reynolds MP (Lab) – Stalybridge and Hyde
- Sir Bob Russell MP (LibDem) – Colchester
- Adrian Sanders MP (LibDem) – Torbay
- Andrew Smith MP (Lab) – Oxford East
- Mark Tami MP (Lab) – Alyn and Deeside
- Joan Walley MP (Lab) – Stoke-on-Trent North
- David Ward MP (LibDem) – Bradford East
- Dave Watts MP (Lab) St Helens North
- Mike Weatherley MP (Con) – Hove and Portslade
- Mike Weir MP (SNP) – Angus
- Eilidh Whiteford MP (SNP) – Banff and Buchan
- Hywel Williams MP (Plaid Cymru) – Arfon
- Stephen Williams MP (LibDem) – Bristol West
- David Wright MP (Lab) – Telford
- Simon Wright MP (LibDem)
Well done to all the MPs on this list – perhaps particularly the 12 brave Tories. The breakdown of the parties is as follows with their number of MPs in the Westminster parliament: Labour 42 (253); Liberal Democrat 15 (57); Conservative 12 (305), SNP 2 (6); Green 1 (1); Plaid Cymru 1 (3); SDLP 1(3).
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Thanks for the breakdown – I was just about to do the count myself having noticed that the party with the most MPs in Parliament (Conservative) seemed to have very few signatories.
Sadly my MP, David Lammy, isn’t there either. I’ve emailed him to ask him to sign.
Rebecca – welcome and thank you!
Perhaps Mrs Mensch is too busy with her other job: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/jun/20/louise-mensch-menshn-twitter-rival
Have emailed my local MP as (surprise!) he’s not on that list either.
Keep up the good work.
Stuart – welcome and thanks!
Can I say congratulations Mr. Gray. I usually only get a standard Govt reply when I write so good for him that he signed this.
Bob – indeed. One of the few Tories on the list – good for him (maybe he wants your vote Bob).
“… I noticed that she didn’t say that she would sign up, so I emailed her again to ask her to do so. But she hasn’t.”
Perhaps she isn’t sufficiently ovine.
I emailed my Tory MP, James Gray, and had a letter back the next day. It was detailed and quite personal, but didn’t actually say that he would sign. I am pleased to see that he has now signed. Thanks James, well done.
The most disappointing omission from this list is Labour’s Mary Creagh.
Linnet – one of many, but ministers and shadow ministers sometimes feel they shouldn’t sign up to some of these things. Having said that, it’s very good to see Ed Davey, Hilary Benn and Mary Creagh’s colleague Tom Harris on the list. I had a message from my MP’s office saying that she will sign up – and now I see that she has!