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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As the fallout of the Digital Economy Bill (now Act) being passed continues to settle, I&#8217;ve taken the time to compile a list detailing whether each of Scotland&#8217;s 59 MPs were present in the chamber for the crucial vote and which way they cast their ballot. As a quick reminder, there are 39 Labour, 12 Liberal Democrat, 7 SNP and 1 Conservative MPs representing Scotland in the House of Commons.</p>
<p><a href="http://jodimullen.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/DE-Bill-Scotland.png"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-374" title="DE Bill Scotland" src="http://jodimullen.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/DE-Bill-Scotland-300x231.png" alt="" width="300" height="231" /></a>Data has been sourced from <a href="http://www.votethemout.co.uk/">VoteThemOut</a> while address details for constituency offices, used in the postcode search, came from <a href="http://www.parliamentaryrecord.com/index.aspx">Westminster Parliamentary Recor</a>d.</p>
<p>The final total out of the 59 Scottish MPs was 18 For, 5 Against and 36 Absents. Here follows a constituency-by-constituency breakdown for each MP. Keep reading after the list for analysis and a party-by-party breakdown.</p>
<h2>Aberdeen City and Aberdeenshire</h2>
<h4>Aberdeen North</h4>
<p>Frank Doran (<span style="color: #ff0000;">Labour</span>) &#8211; <strong>For</strong></p>
<h4>Aberdeen South</h4>
<p>Anne Begg (<span style="color: #ff0000;">Labour</span>) &#8211; Absent</p>
<h4>Banff and Buchan</h4>
<p>Alex Salmond (<span style="color: #cc99ff;">SNP</span>) &#8211; Absent</p>
<h4>Gordon</h4>
<p>Malcolm Bruce (<span style="color: #ffcc00;">Lib Dem</span>) &#8211; Absent</p>
<h4>West Aberdeen and Kincardineshire</h4>
<p>Robert Smith <span style="color: #ffcc00;"><span style="color: #000000;">(</span>Lib Dem</span>) &#8211; Absent</p>
<h2>Angus and Dundee City</h2>
<h4>Angus</h4>
<p>Mike Weir (<span style="color: #cc99ff;">SNP</span>) &#8211; Absent</p>
<h4>Dundee East</h4>
<p>Stewart Hosie (<span style="color: #cc99ff;">SNP</span>) &#8211; <strong>For</strong></p>
<h4>Dundee West</h4>
<p>James McGovern (<span style="color: #ff0000;">Labour</span>) &#8211; Absent</p>
<h2>Argyll and Bute</h2>
<h4>Argyll and Bute</h4>
<p>Alan Reid (<span style="color: #ffcc00;">Lib Dem</span>) &#8211; Absent</p>
<h2>City of Edinburgh</h2>
<h4>Edinburgh East</h4>
<p>Gavin Strang (<span style="color: #ff0000;">Labour</span>) &#8211; <strong>For</strong></p>
<h4>Edinburgh North and Leith</h4>
<p>Mark Lazarowicz (<span style="color: #ff0000;">Labour</span>) &#8211; <strong>Against</strong></p>
<h4>Edinburgh South</h4>
<p>Nigel Griffiths (<span style="color: #ff0000;">Labour</span>) &#8211; Absent</p>
<h4>Edinburgh South West</h4>
<p>Alistair Darling (<span style="color: #ff0000;">Labour</span>) &#8211; Absent</p>
<h4>Edinburgh West</h4>
<p>John Barrett (<span style="color: #ffcc00;">Lib Dem</span>) &#8211; <strong>Against</strong></p>
<h2>Clackmannanshire and Perth and Kinross</h2>
<h4>Ochil and South Perthshire</h4>
<p>Gordon Banks (<span style="color: #ff0000;">Labour</span>) &#8211; Absent</p>
<h4>Perth and North Perthshire</h4>
<p>Pete Wishart (<span style="color: #cc99ff;">SNP</span>) &#8211; Absent</p>
<h2>Dumfries and Galloway, Scottish Borders and South Lanarkshire</h2>
<h4>Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk</h4>
<p>Michael Moore (<span style="color: #ffcc00;">Lib Dem</span>) &#8211; Absent</p>
<h4>Dumfries and Galloway</h4>
<p>Russell Brown (<span style="color: #ff0000;">Labour</span>) &#8211; Absent</p>
<h4>Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale</h4>
<p>David Mundell (<span style="color: #0000ff;">Conservative</span>) &#8211; Absent</p>
<h4>East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow</h4>
<p>Adam Ingram (<span style="color: #ff0000;">Labour</span>) &#8211; <strong>For</strong></p>
<h4>Lanark and Hamilton East</h4>
<p>Jimmy Hood (<span style="color: #ff0000;">Labour</span>) &#8211; Absent</p>
<h4>Rutherglen and Hamilton West</h4>
<p>Toomy McAvoy (<span style="color: #ff0000;">Labour</span>) &#8211; <strong>For</strong></p>
<h2>East Ayrshire, North Ayrshire and South Ayrshire</h2>
<h4>Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock</h4>
<p>Sandra Osborne (<span style="color: #ff0000;">Labour</span>) &#8211; <strong>For</strong></p>
<h4>Central Ayrshire</h4>
<p>Brian Donohoe (<span style="color: #ff0000;">Labour</span>) &#8211; Absent</p>
<h4>Kilmarnock and Loudon</h4>
<p>Des Browne (<span style="color: #ff0000;">Labour</span>) &#8211; <strong>For</strong></p>
<h4>North Ayrshire and Arran</h4>
<p>Katy Clark (<span style="color: #ff0000;">Labour</span>) &#8211; Absent</p>
<h2>East Dumbartonshire and North Lanarkshire</h2>
<h4>Airdrie and Shotts</h4>
<p>John Reid (<span style="color: #ff0000;">Labour</span>) &#8211; <strong>For</strong></p>
<h4>Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill</h4>
<p>Tom Clarke (<span style="color: #ff0000;">Labour</span>) &#8211; Absent</p>
<h4>Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East</h4>
<p>Rosemary McKenna (<span style="color: #ff0000;">Labour</span>) &#8211; Absent</p>
<h4>East Dumbartonshire</h4>
<p>Jo Swinson (<span style="color: #ffcc00;">Lib Dem</span>) &#8211; Absent</p>
<h4>Motherwell and Wishaw</h4>
<p>Frank Roy (<span style="color: #ff0000;">Labour</span>)  &#8211; Absent</p>
<h2>East Lothian</h2>
<h4>East Lothian</h4>
<p>Anne Moffat (<span style="color: #ff0000;">Labour</span>) &#8211; Absent</p>
<h2>East Renfrewshire</h2>
<h4>East Renfrewshire</h4>
<p>Jim Murphy (<span style="color: #ff0000;">Labour</span>) &#8211; Absent</p>
<h2>Falkirk and West Lothian</h2>
<h4>Falkirk</h4>
<p>Eric Joyce (<span style="color: #ff0000;">Labour</span>) &#8211; <strong>Against</strong></p>
<h4>Linlithgow and East Falkirk</h4>
<p>Michael Connarty (<span style="color: #ff0000;">Labour</span>) &#8211; <strong>For</strong></p>
<h4>Livingston</h4>
<p>Jim Devine (<span style="color: #ff0000;">Labour</span>) &#8211; Absent</p>
<h2>Fife</h2>
<h4>Dunfermline and West Fife</h4>
<p>Willie Rennie (<span style="color: #ffcc00;">Lib Dem</span>) &#8211; Absent</p>
<h4>Glenrothes</h4>
<p>Lindsay Roy (<span style="color: #ff0000;">Labour</span>) &#8211; Absent</p>
<h4>Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath</h4>
<p>Gordon Brown (<span style="color: #ff0000;">Labour</span>) &#8211; Absent</p>
<h4>North East Fife</h4>
<p>Menzies Campbell (<span style="color: #ffcc00;">Lib Dem</span>) &#8211; Absent</p>
<h2>Glasgow City</h2>
<h4>Glasgow Central</h4>
<p>Mohammed Sarwar (<span style="color: #ff0000;">Labour</span>) &#8211; Absent</p>
<h4>Glasgow East</h4>
<p>John Mason (<span style="color: #cc99ff;">SNP</span>) &#8211; Absent</p>
<h4>Glasgow North</h4>
<p>Anne McKechin (<span style="color: #ff0000;">Labour</span>) &#8211; <strong>For</strong></p>
<h4>Glasgow North East</h4>
<p>Willie Bain (<span style="color: #808080;">Speaker</span>) &#8211; <strong>For</strong></p>
<h4>Glasgow North West</h4>
<p>John Robertson (<span style="color: #ff0000;">Labour</span>) &#8211; <strong>For</strong></p>
<h4>Glasgow South</h4>
<p>Tom Harris (<span style="color: #ff0000;">Labour</span>) &#8211; Absent</p>
<h4>Glasgow South West</h4>
<p>Ian Davidson (<span style="color: #ff0000;">Labour</span>) &#8211; <strong>For</strong></p>
<h2>Highland</h2>
<h4>Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross</h4>
<p>John Thurso (<span style="color: #ffcc00;">Lib Dem</span>) &#8211; <strong>Against</strong></p>
<h4>Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey</h4>
<p>Danny Alexander (<span style="color: #ffcc00;">Lib Dem</span>) &#8211; Absent</p>
<h4>Ross, Skye and Lochaber</h4>
<p>Charles Kennedy (<span style="color: #ffcc00;">Lib Dem</span>) &#8211; Absent</p>
<h2>Inverclyde</h2>
<h4>Inverclyde</h4>
<p>David Cairns (<span style="color: #ff0000;">Labour</span>) &#8211; <strong>For</strong></p>
<h2>Midlothian</h2>
<h4>Midlothian</h4>
<p>David Hamilton (<span style="color: #ff0000;">Labour</span>) &#8211; <strong>For</strong></p>
<h2>Moray</h2>
<h4>Moray</h4>
<p>Angus Robertson (<span style="color: #cc99ff;">SNP</span>) &#8211; Absent</p>
<h2>Na h-Eileanan Siar (Western Isles)</h2>
<h4>Na h-Eileanan Siar</h4>
<p>Angus MacNeil (<span style="color: #cc99ff;">SNP</span>) &#8211; Absent</p>
<h2>Orkney Islands and Shetland Islands</h2>
<h4>Orkney and Shetland</h4>
<p>Alistair Carmichael (<span style="color: #ffcc00;">Lib Dem</span>) &#8211; <strong>Against</strong></p>
<h2>Renfrewshire</h2>
<h4>Paisley and Renfrewshire North</h4>
<p>Jim Sheriden (<span style="color: #ff0000;">Labour</span>) &#8211; <strong>For</strong></p>
<h4>Paisley and Renfrewshire South</h4>
<p>Douglas Alexander (<span style="color: #ff0000;">Labour</span>) &#8211; <strong>For</strong></p>
<h2>Stirling</h2>
<h4>Stirling</h4>
<p>Anne McGuire (<span style="color: #ff0000;">Labour</span>) &#8211; Absent</p>
<h2>West Dumbartonshire</h2>
<h4>West Dumbartonshire</h4>
<p>John McFall (<span style="color: #ff0000;">Labour</span>) &#8211; <strong>For</strong></p>
<h2><strong>Analysis</strong></h2>
<h4><a href="http://jodimullen.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/Scottish-Labour-DE-Bill1.png"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-388" title="Scottish Labour DE Bill" src="http://jodimullen.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/Scottish-Labour-DE-Bill1-300x231.png" alt="" width="300" height="231" /></a>Labour</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>17</strong> Labour MPs voted <strong>For</strong> the DE Bill.</li>
<li><strong>2</strong> Labour MPs voted <strong>Against</strong> the DE Bill</li>
<li><strong>20</strong> Labour MPs were <strong>Absent</strong> or <strong>Abstained</strong>.</li>
</ul>
<p>Only two Labour MPs &#8211; Mark Lazarowicz and Eric Joyce &#8211; broke the whip to vote against the Bill. There were also many high-profile Labour absentees including Gordon Brown and Alistair Darling, with the likes of John Reid shoring up the For vote. Still, more than half of the party&#8217;s MPs stayed at home despite the presence of the whip and government&#8217;s determination to drive the Bill through.</p>
<h4><a href="http://jodimullen.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/Scottish-Lib-Dem-DE-Bill.png"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-379" title="Scottish Lib Dem DE Bill" src="http://jodimullen.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/Scottish-Lib-Dem-DE-Bill-300x231.png" alt="" width="300" height="231" /></a>Liberal Democrats</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>0</strong> Lib Dem MPs voted <strong>For</strong> the DE Bill</li>
<li><strong>3</strong> Lib Dem MPs voted <strong>Against</strong> the DE Bill</li>
<li><strong>9</strong> Lib Dem MPs were <strong>Absent</strong> or<strong> Abstained</strong>.</li>
</ul>
<p>No Lib Dem MP voted in favour of the Bill, but only three turned out to vote it down, despite the party being firmly against the proposed legislation. More big name absentees here with Charles Kennedy and Menzies Campbell staying at home. Bizarrely, the MPs for the far-flung Caithness, Sutherland and East Ross and Orkney and Shetland managed to make the vote, while many of their southerly colleagues were absent.</p>
<h4>Scottish National Party</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>1</strong> SNP MP voted <strong>For</strong> the DE Bill</li>
<li><strong>0</strong> SNP MPs voted <strong>Against</strong> the DE Bill</li>
<li><strong>6</strong> SNP MPs were <strong>Absent</strong> or <strong>Abstained</strong>.</li>
</ul>
<p>Yet another high-profile absentee here with Alex Salmond nowhere to be seen, though he is stepping down from his Westminster seat to concentrate on his duties as First Minister of Scotland after the forthcoming election. Pete Wishart was surprisingly absent after robustly engaging with the debate during the Bill&#8217;s Second Reading the previous evening.</p>
<h4>Conservatives</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>0</strong> Conservative MPs voted <strong>For</strong> the DE Bill</li>
<li><strong>0</strong> Conservative MPs voted <strong>Against</strong> the DE Bill</li>
<li><strong>1 </strong>Conservative MP was <strong>Absent</strong> or <strong>Abstained</strong>.</li>
</ul>
<p>The Conservative Party&#8217;s only Scottish MP fails to turn up for the vote. I bet his constituents are <em>thrilled</em>.</p>
<p>In total, far less than half of Scotland&#8217;s MPs &#8211; a pitiful 38% &#8211; bothered to turn up and vote on the Digital Economy Bill.</p>
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