This is the list: Cashman, Honeyball, Howitt, Hughes, McAvan, Moraes, Skinner, Stihler, Vaughan, Willmot. I suspect it is because of a kiddie porn scare story put about by the absentee MEP Arlene McCarthy and by the Internet Watch Foundation through Vicky Ford MEP. These people as well as a prominent Conservative are likely to be re-elected in the May 2014 poll due to the falling apart of the Coalition vote...scary. The need for a legal basis for blocking should be clear?
P.S. Comment below makes clear what Euro-watchers know very well: the ALDE Liberal group and ECR rightwing group in the EP have VERY different politics, unlike the marriage of unequals in the UK coalition government. By 'falling apart', I refer to the fact that the Con-Dem vote will be butchered in the Euro-elections, with consequent election of UKIP and Labour MEPs.
PPS. Extremely cool votewatch graphic shows that these were the only 10 members of their political grouping to vote against net neutrality.
P.S. Comment below makes clear what Euro-watchers know very well: the ALDE Liberal group and ECR rightwing group in the EP have VERY different politics, unlike the marriage of unequals in the UK coalition government. By 'falling apart', I refer to the fact that the Con-Dem vote will be butchered in the Euro-elections, with consequent election of UKIP and Labour MEPs.
PPS. Extremely cool votewatch graphic shows that these were the only 10 members of their political grouping to vote against net neutrality.
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Just for the sake of accuracy, there is no such thing as a "Coalition vote" in the European Parliament. The two parties' MEPs belong to different groups between which there is no special relationship (ALDE and ECR), and are campaigning completely separately in the forthcoming election.
Just for the sake of accuracy, there is no such thing as a "Coalition vote" in the European Parliament. The two parties' MEPs belong to different groups between which there is no special relationship (ALDE and ECR), and are campaigning completely separately in the forthcoming election.
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