Where in the world is Lady Sylvia Hermon? (2)
Another fortnight has elapsed and the MP for North Down has still not been sighted at Westminster. Theyworkforyou still records no contribution from Sylvia Hermon since March of this year, during the last parliament.
The House of Commons is due to rise for its summer recess on 27 July and will not be recalled until 6 September. If Hermon fails to make a late appearance, she will have ignored entirely the new parliament's first session.
During the election campaign she promised to make 'every vote count' as an independent. So far more than thirty votes have taken place, with a new activist government she claims to oppose getting into the swing of its first term in office. Clearly none of these divisions has concerned Hermon or the voters of North Down.
It would be interesting to know whether she intends to start representing her constituents in September or continuing to act like quasi-nobility.
The House of Commons is due to rise for its summer recess on 27 July and will not be recalled until 6 September. If Hermon fails to make a late appearance, she will have ignored entirely the new parliament's first session.
During the election campaign she promised to make 'every vote count' as an independent. So far more than thirty votes have taken place, with a new activist government she claims to oppose getting into the swing of its first term in office. Clearly none of these divisions has concerned Hermon or the voters of North Down.
It would be interesting to know whether she intends to start representing her constituents in September or continuing to act like quasi-nobility.
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The following is Sylvia Hermon's Page from the public whip website, and shows the number of votes she has taken: Every vote counts!
The attendance rate of the other NI MPs are available from the same website and I have given them below for comparison:
Gregory Campbell 13 votes out of 31, 41.9%
Nigel Dodds 24 votes out of 31, 77.4%
Jeffrey Donaldson 22 votes out of 31, 71.0%
Mark Durkan 23 votes out of 31, 74.2%
Naomi Long 8 votes out of 31, 25.8%
William McCrea 23 votes out of 31, 74.2%
Ian Paisley Jnr 11 votes out of 31, 35.5%
Jim Shannon 10 votes out of 31, 32.3%
David Simpson 13 votes out of 31, 41.9%
Sammy Wilson 16 votes out of 31, 51.6%
Alisdair McDonnell 5 votes out of 31,
Margaret Ritchie 14 votes out of 31, 45.2%
SF/Hermon 0 votes out of 31.
I find Hermon's record a disgrace - she could at least have stood as an official Labour candidate to do unionism some good if she wasn't planning on attending parliament - it would still have spited UCUNF.
I daren't ask, but has she drawn any expenses in the new parliament?
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