Thread: MEP League Table

MEP League Table - Independence Home

Open Europe has published a pretty comprehensive analysis of every MEP sitting in the European Parliament. They have produced a league table, ranking MEPs according to a point score comprised of various idfferent elements including attendance recrod, voting on transparency and openness, etc.

The resulting league table is fascinating stuff (well, for political anoraks like us at Independence Home it is anyway). Download the excel table here and the guide to rankings here.

So what gems do we find in the table? Well, here we go…

9 of the 12 UKIP MEPs elected in 2004 rank better than half the Parliament
2 sitting UKIP MEPs rank higher than 25 (92.5%) Conservative MEPs, 8 (66%) Lib-Dem MEPs, and 19 (100%) Labour MEPs!!
6 UKIP MEPs voted to open up MEP expenses, while 2 were not present. 2 Lib-Dem MEPs voted against while not a single Labour or Conservative MEP voted for transparency over expenses!
Just 1 Tory MEP (0 Labour, 0 Lib-Dem MEPs) voted in favour of the amendment calling for the Parliament to respect the result of the Irish referendum.
UKIP, Tory and Lib-Dem all supportive of move to stop pension contributions being paid from allowances. Just 4 (21%) Labour MEPs were in favour!
UKIP, Tories, Lib-Dem and labour MEPs largely signed declaration in favour of scrapping second seat in Strasbourg. 1 Green MEP (50%) didn’t sign (carbon emissions?)!!!
Not a single UK MEP voted in favour of an amendment to give direct aid from the EU budget to raw tobacco farmers
Only 1 Labour and 1 Lib Dem MEP voted against signing off the European Parliament’s 2006 accounts despite 75% unaccounted expenditure on MEPs’ assistants’ allowances! No UKIP or Tory MEPs voted against signing them off.
Not a single Labour or Lib-Dem MEP voted against approving the Parliament’s 2007 accounts despite auditor’s criticisms. 1 Tory MEP and both Green MEPs voted to approve the accounts! UKIP MEPs either voted against approval or were not present.
So there we are. Without doubt the worst MEPs are Labour and Lib-Dem MEPs. They are fundamentally against actions which would be seen by most voters on the street and common sense, and which would shock them if they know how their MEPs were behaving.

Well done Open Europe!

Gotta love statistics and other lies! Here's the bottom 15 of the table:

64 Mrs Glenys Kinnock MEP UK Labour Party
64 Mr Ashley Mote MEP UK Independent
66 Mr Nigel Farage MEP UK UK Independence Party
66 The Baroness Nicholson of Winterbourne MEP UK Liberal Democrats
66 Ms Glenis Willmott MEP UK Labour
66 Mr Densmore Dover MEP UK Conservative Party
70 Mr Roger Knapman MEP UK UK Independence Party
71 Mr Nirj Deva MEP UK Conservative Party
72 Mr Godfrey Bloom MEP UK UK Independence Party
72 Mr Giles Chichester MEP UK Conservative Party
74 Mr Jonathan Evans MEP UK Conservative Party
75 Mr Trevor Colman MEP UK UK Independence Party
76 Dr John Whittaker MEP UK UK Independence Party
76 Mr Robert Kilroy-Silk MEP UK Independent (elected as UK Independence Party; resigned party whip October 2004)
78 Mr David Sumberg MEP UK Conservative Party

Not brilliant from those elected on the UKIP ticket, is it, wallowing around with the likes of Den Dover, Chichester, Kinnock and Sumberg ('Britain's laziest MEP')?

Originally Posted by Henry IX

This was The Sun´s table of the worst

I downloaded it from Open Europe via Independence Home. I am afraid it is real.

Take a look:
http://www.openeurope.org.uk/research/mepranking.xls

Originally Posted by Anthony Butcher

Not brilliant from those elected on the UKIP ticket, is it, wallowing around with the likes of Den Dover, Chichester, Kinnock and Sumberg ('Britain's laziest MEP')?

Eurosceptics make the laziest MEPs but they're not stupid. Why bother doing any work when your supporters are quite happy for you to loaf around?

What exactly does this table measure?

I want a table that shows

Contempt for the EU and its institutions.
Amount of money diverted against the EU.
Amount of times thrown out of the chamber.
Amount of times they have been booed while trying to speak.

I am not sure about his conclusions, either. It seems rather obvious to me that UKIP and the Tories share the worst MEPs in Britain, not Labour and the Lib Dems (according to the Open Europe criteria).

Originally Posted by johnwest

And here come the excuses!

Excuses for what?