This is a fun little exercise...
My red wall MP (Jenkinson) is in the top 6% of 'additional income'... which was a bit of an eye-opener as most of it was 'gifts' from some random bloke. Not even public speaking or a 'book advance'.
How much does yours get?
I gave up. The site is horrible, doesn’t work in landscape and what’s with the Topsy and Tim slideshow?
Google the "random bloke" I'll bet my house its a legalised bribe from someone who wants something from him
The three donations, gifts, payments and other benefits [Anna] McMorrin has declared so far are worth the equivalent of approximately £2,390.
I'm astonished that my MP, Theo Clarke, is in the bottom 26%. A £5000 donation from JCB is her biggest, and considering the factory is only 15 miles away is understandable.
She's a Tory, the niece of Jacob Rees Mogg, and pretty much invisible around here. I'd always assumed she'd be raking it in.
@tjagain The guy is a 'local made good' but who now lives on Cornwall. The amusing bit is he apparently supports local food banks etc whereas Jenky is on record as saying locals swap vouchers for drugs... Not an obvious fit 🤣.
But good enough to give an extra £67 0000/yr as a gift...
About £45K for mine (Newbury). Top 26%. Donations from previous MP and Sir Chris Gent (ex-Vodafone CEO, local to Newbury as it was founded here). £10K from a property development company, that looks the most dodgy.
71k for mine (top 15%), Aaron Banks being one of the donors, but JCB is the biggest one (Andrea Jenkyns)
A mere 14 grand for my ex-Conservative now Indy MP. Looks like he likes being taken to cricket matches.
Zero for mine much to my surprise as I have a very low opinion of her.
No 2. Geoffrey Cox, £2.1 million.
Mary Robinson, Cheadle. £15000 puts her in top 50%. So average, must try harder.
Isn't gifts mainly to support them as the tory candidate, i.e. going into the local funding for them, rather than going into their pockets?
Mine is Sir John Hayes (South Holland & The Deepings)
The 61 donations, gifts, payments and other benefits Sir John has declared so far are worth the equivalent of approximately £349,800
Sounds like a lot!!
My tory MP has declared £10k, which is bottom 40%. Half of that was from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Kingdom of Bahrain.
Robert jenrick - total of £10,340 so he's in bottom 40%.
Two sources - Bahrain foreign ministry and Ambitions Personnel - which suggest he's either indiscriminate or needy.
I'm very surprised he's taken or been offered so little.
Bottom 22% for mine (Graham Stringer), not bad... mostly from Ipsos Mori & YouGov, anyone know why they'd be paying out to MPs?
Alan Campbell in bottom 19% though I was lost trying to work out what that actually meant 🤷🏼♂️
Only £7k for my Tory MP, including a £2k donation from a local industrialist and philanthropist who lives up the road from me. I think Damian Hinds is one of the few who's not in it to line his pocket (at least yet).
Tom Tugendhat, £289,400. In the top 3%.
My MP just seems to spend his time filling out surveys for YouGov at £200 a pop.
Toby Perkins, only 16.5k, doesn't seem a crazy amount.
Thanks Slowoldman that’s marginally better.
The two donations, gifts, payments and other benefits Ms Trevelyan has declared so far are worth the equivalent of approximately £15,000.
Surprisingly low until you check her surname and the wealth of her ex.
Dan Jarvis. Top 6% in one of the
more deprived areas of the country. £210,000. Hmmm. He was doubling up as mayor of Sheffield and surrounding area for a few years. Never answered my query on how he could do both jobs without spreading himself to thinly.
1/4 million for Wes Streeting. corrupt as hell
Rishi Sunak's had a hundred grand off "Chris Rea" - assume not "that" one, as he's a leftie isn't he ?
Why the **** would Rishi even bother his arse pocketing that little a bung? 🤪
Mine is top 31% Tory. But he's rubbish, couldn't even get on the news as a "body bag",
Seems to get £10k a year from the same guy though.
I was lost trying to work out what that actually meant 🤷🏼♂️
It means that we the average Brit are screwed.They can engage in what some term as corruption, because they write those rules for themselves to suit themselves.
Pauline Latham, 3 declared totalling £2,370, £1660 from an all party committee on malaria? Few hundred from Ipsos Mori, a couple of hundred from the nice golf course/hotel that is just down the road.
She might be an idiot, but I never thought she was in it for the money and I appear to be correct.
My local gammony Tory is ranking a cool £3000. Must try harder.
Angela Raynor 300 grand, I would like to know where that money go's. She has never struck me as someone who would just pocket it so I assume that it is given for a reason other than enhancing her lifestyle, but it wouldn't shock me to find that it did.
Angela Raynor 300 grand, I would like to know where that money go’s. She has never struck me as someone who would just pocket it so I assume that it is given for a reason other than enhancing her lifestyle, but it wouldn’t shock me to find that it did.
Based on what assumptions? Every politician is about self promotion
£300 from Royal & Ancient Golf Club for Sir Roger Gale.
Angela Raynor 300 grand, I would like to know where that money go’s. She has never struck me as someone who would just pocket it so I assume that it is given for a reason other than enhancing her lifestyle, but it wouldn’t shock me to find that it did.
Again, looking at the numbers, apart from £1600 earned from broadcasting, the rest is donations from unions, companies, etc who are pretty much labour supporters, i'm pretty sure this is for supporting the labour office in the area, re-election costs, etc, rather than in the back pocket.
As you say, i don't see her pocketing any of it, i can see her using it to pay for staff for labour activities outside of MP claims.
Top 8% for mine, John Stevenson Carlisle MP. £115000 in total.
I can't put into words my experience of the man.
I've got Stephen Doughty (Labour). Only big ones are from the GMB and The Musicians Union, both for £4k. A decent amount of £1-200 ones from the British Army and a few randoms, noting that looks dodgy or excessive IMO.
More surprising is that his £16k total puts him in the top 49%, thought the average would be higher than that.
Is Raynor still deputy leader? IIRC the leader and deputy do have extra expenses but is that not reflected in the allowances they get?
I'd be prepared to bet that she does benefit from some of that indirectly if not directly by not having to spend her salary and wages if nowt else but my guess would be that much of it is used to employ folk to deal with constituency matters as she will have little time
its a fairly obscene amount IMO. I haven't looked into who the companies are
£2550 for my local Tory MP, Nigel Huddlestone. Far less than I was expecting.
What a hideous effort of a webshite.
Mine's another one that got donation from JCB. Nowhere near the JCB factory afaik, but it does have Diggerland.
Also 10 grand from Lord wotsit of Watford.
The rest seems to be mainly from the brewing/pub industry.
£10k for my SNP MP. Disappointed to see the biggest donor is a pretty horrible religious group that have campaigned against LGBT rights, abortion, stem cell research.
The others are different organizations representing countries. No idea why a Scottish MP needs donations from Qatar, Israel, San Marino and Switzerland 🤔
Wasn't the JCB owner a big advocate of Brexit? Could funding from JCB be funding for political support of that project?
Again, looking at the numbers, apart from £1600 earned from broadcasting, the rest is donations from unions, companies, etc who are pretty much labour supporters, i’m pretty sure this is for supporting the labour office in the area, re-election costs, etc, rather than in the back pocket.
As you say, i don’t see her pocketing any of it, i can see her using it to pay for staff for labour activities outside of MP claims.
But if we are "happy "to make that assumption about Raynor, we should also give others from differing backgrounds the same benefit. This is why this is such a bad piece of journalism, without knowing what the donations are for and were spent on it is really just gossip and insinuation.
Wasn’t the JCB owner a big advocate of Brexit? Could funding from JCB be funding for political support of that project?
yes and yes
I can't stand Raynor. However I have never seen any evidence that she is corrupt unlike say Streeting who clearly is IMO
