Greg wrote: ↑4 years ago
An MP with integrity. Tory flavour too. Whoda'thought.
How Rory Stewart voted on Social Issues
Generally voted against laws to promote equality and human rights
How Rory Stewart voted on Foreign Policy and Defence
Almost always voted for use of UK military forces in combat operations
Voted against investigations into the Iraq
Consistently voted for replacing Trident with a new nuclear weapons
Generally voted against more EU integration
Generally voted for a referendum on the UK's membership of the EU
Generally voted against strengthening the Military Covenant (yep – you read that right!)
Almost always voted against a right to remain for EU nationals already in living in the UK
Generally voted against UK membership of the EU
How Rory Stewart voted on Welfare and Benefits
Generally voted for reducing housing benefit for social tenants deemed to have excess bedrooms (which Labour describe as the "bedroom tax")
Consistently voted against raising welfare benefits at least in line with prices
Almost always voted against paying higher benefits over longer periods for those unable to work due to illness or disability
Almost always voted for making local councils responsible for helping those in financial need afford their council tax and reducing the amount spent on such support
Almost always voted for a reduction in spending on welfare benefits
Generally voted against spending public money to create guaranteed jobs for young people who have spent a long time unemployed
How Rory Stewart voted on Taxation and Employment
Almost always voted against increasing the tax rate applied to income over £150,000
Generally voted against a banker’s bonus tax
Almost always voted for more restrictive regulation of trade union activity
Almost always voted for reducing capital gains tax
How Rory Stewart voted on Business and the Economy
Almost always voted for reducing the rate of corporation tax
Almost always voted for new high speed rail infrastructure
How Rory Stewart voted on Health
Consistently voted against restricting the provision of services to private patients by the NHS
Consistently voted for reforming the NHS so GPs buy services on behalf of their patients
Almost always voted against smoking bans
How Rory Stewart voted on Education
Voted for raising England’s undergraduate tuition fee cap to £9,000 per
Consistently voted for academy schools
Consistently voted for ending financial support for some 16-19 year olds in training and further education
Consistently voted for university tuition fees.
How Rory Stewart voted on Constitutional Reform
Almost always voted for reducing central government funding of local government
Generally voted against a more proportional system for electing MPs
Almost always voted against transferring more powers to the Welsh Assembly
Generally voted against transferring more powers to the Scottish Parliament
Generally voted against more powers for local councils
Generally voted against a lower voting age
How Rory Stewart voted on Home Affairs
Consistently voted for a stricter asylum system
Consistently voted for stronger enforcement of immigration rules
Consistently voted for requiring the mass retention of information about communications
Consistently voted for mass surveillance of people’s communications and activities
How Rory Stewart voted on Environmental Issues
Generally voted against measures to prevent climate change
Consistently voted for selling England’s state owned forests
Generally voted against financial incentives for low carbon emission electricity generation methods
Generally voted for culling badgers to tackle bovine tuberculosis
Generally voted against greater regulation of hydraulic fracturing (fracking) to extract shale gas
Almost always voted for new high speed rail infrastructure
How Rory Stewart voted on Transport
Almost always voted against greater public control of bus services
Almost always voted against slowing the rise in rail fares
Generally voted against a publicly owned railway system
How Rory Stewart voted on Housing
Consistently voted for phasing out secure tenancies for life
Almost always voted for charging a market rent to high earners renting a council home
How Rory Stewart voted on Miscellaneous Topics
Consistently voted against greater regulation of gambling
Generally voted for the privatisation of Royal Mail
Generally voted against requiring pub companies to offer pub landlords rent-only leases
Generally voted for restricting the scope of legal aid
Consistently voted against restrictions on fees charged to tenants by letting agents
You'll have to forgive me if I don't shed a fecking tear for his political demise...