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11th September 2013: The world's gone mad and I'm the only one who knows
13th August 2013: Black is white. Fact. End of.
11th August 2013: Electric cars, not as green as they're painted?
18th June 2013: Wrinklies unite, you have nothing to lose but your walking frames!
17th May 2013: Some actual FACTS about climate change (for a change) from actual scientists ...
10th May 2013: An article about that poison gas, carbon dioxide, and other scientific facts (not) ...
10th May 2013: We need to see past the sex and look at the crimes: is justice being served?
8th May 2013: So, who would you trust to treat your haemorrhoids, Theresa May?
8th May 2013: Why should citizens in the 21st Century fear the law so much?
30th April 2013: What the GOS says today, the rest of the world realises tomorrow ...
30th April 2013: You couldn't make it up, could you? Luckily you don't need to ...
29th April 2013: a vote for NONE OF THE ABOVE, because THE ABOVE are crap ...
28th April 2013: what goes around, comes around?
19th April 2013: everyone's a victim these days ...
10th April 2013: Thatcher is dead; long live Thatcher!
8th April 2013: Poor people are such a nuisance. Just give them loads of money and they'll go away ...
26th March 2013: Censorship is alive and well and coming for you ...
25th March 2013: Just do your job properly, is that too much to ask?
25th March 2013: So, what do you think caused your heterosexuality?
20th March 2013: Feminists - puritans, hypocrites or just plain stupid?
18th March 2013: How Nazi Germany paved the way for modern governance?
13th March 2013: Time we all grew up and lived in the real world ...
12th March 2013: Hindenburg crash mystery solved? - don't you believe it!
6th March 2013: Is this the real GOS?
5th March 2013: All that's wrong with taxes
25th February 2013: The self-seeking MP who is trying to bring Britain down ...
24th February 2013: Why can't newspapers just tell the truth?
22nd February 2013: Trial by jury - a radical proposal
13th February 2013: A little verse for two very old people ...
6th February 2013: It's not us after all, it's worms
6th February 2013: Now here's a powerful argument FOR gay marriage ...
4th February 2013: There's no such thing as equality because we're not all the same ...
28th January 2013: Global Warming isn't over - IT'S HIDING!
25th January 2013: Global Warmers: mad, bad and dangerous to know ...
25th January 2013: Bullying ego-trippers, not animal lovers ...
19th January 2013: We STILL haven't got our heads straight about gays ...
16th January 2013: Bullying ego-trippers, not animal lovers ...
11th January 2013: What it's like being English ...
7th January 2013: Bleat, bleat, if it saves the life of just one child ...
7th January 2013: How best to put it? 'Up yours, Argentina'?
7th January 2013: Chucking even more of other people's money around ...
6th January 2013: Chucking other people's money around ...
30th December 2012: The BBC is just crap, basically ...
30th December 2012: We mourn the passing of a genuine Grumpy Old Sod ...
30th December 2012: How an official body sets out to ruin Christmas ...
16th December 2012: Why should we pardon Alan Turing when he did nothing wrong?
15th December 2012: When will social workers face up to their REAL responsibility?
15th December 2012: Unfair trading by a firm in Bognor Regis ...
14th December 2012: Now the company that sells your data is pretending to act as watchdog ...
7th December 2012: There's a war between cars and bikes, apparently, and  most of us never noticed!
26th November 2012: The bottom line - social workers are just plain stupid ...
20th November 2012: So, David Eyke was right all along, then?
15th November 2012: MPs don't mind dishing it out, but when it's them in the firing line ...
14th November 2012: The BBC has a policy, it seems, about which truths it wants to tell ...
12th November 2012: Big Brother, coming to a school near you ...
9th November 2012: Yet another celebrity who thinks, like Jimmy Saville, that he can behave just as he likes because he's famous ...
5th November 2012: Whose roads are they, anyway? After all, we paid for them ...
7th May 2012: How politicians could end droughts at a stroke if they chose ...
6th May 2012: The BBC, still determined to keep us in a fog of ignorance ...
2nd May 2012: A sense of proportion lacking?
24th April 2012: Told you so, told you so, told you so ...
15th April 2012: Aah, sweet ickle polar bears in danger, aah ...
15th April 2012: An open letter to Anglian Water ...
30th March 2012: Now they want to cure us if we don't believe their lies ...
28th February 2012: Just how useful is a degree? Not very.
27th February 2012: ... so many ways to die ...
15th February 2012: DO go to Jamaica because you definitely WON'T get murdered with a machete. Ms Fox says so ...
31st January 2012: We don't make anything any more
27th January 2012: There's always a word for it, they say, and if there isn't we'll invent one
26th January 2012: Literary criticism on GOS? How posh!
12th December 2011: Plain speaking by a scientist about the global warming fraud
9th December 2011: Who trusts scientists? Apart from the BBC, of course?
7th December 2011: All in all, not a good week for British justice ...
9th November 2011: Well what d'you know, the law really IS a bit of an ass ...

 

 
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We found on the internet this list, published in The Independent in October 2004, of the expenses claimed by our MPs.
 
These are the total expenses claimed for the year 2003-04 on top of an annual MP's salary of, then, £57,485.
 

 
Diane Abbott, Labour, Hackney N & Stoke Newington - £96,366
Gerry Adams, SF, Belfast W - £109,315
Irene Adams, Labour, Paisley N - £137,094
Nick Ainger, Labour, Carmarthen W & S Pembrokeshire - £110,376
Bob Ainsworth, Labour, Coventry NE - £119,898
Peter Ainsworth, Conservative, E Surrey - £115,039
Douglas Alexander, Labour, Paisley S - £146,362
Richard Allan, Lib Dem, Sheffield Hallam - £110,140
Graham Allen, Labour, Nottingham N - £142,715
David Amess, Conservative, Southend W - £125,349
Michael Ancram, Conservative, Devizes - £112,020
Donald Anderson, Labour, Swansea E - £124,858
Janet Anderson, Labour, Rossendale & Darwen - £135,779
James Arbuthnot, Conservative, NE Hampshire - £114,838
Hilary Armstrong, Labour, NW Durham - £112,769
Candy Atherton, Labour, Falmouth & Camborne - £135,877
Charlotte Atkins, Labour, Staffordshire Moorlands - £119,702
David Atkinson, Conservative, Bournemouth E - £114,359
Peter Atkinson, Conservative, Hexham - £129,277
John Austin, Labour, Erith & Thamesmead - £110,775
Richard Bacon, Conservative, S Norfolk - £119,825
Adrian Bailey, Labour/Co-op, W Bromwich W - £120,934
Vera Baird, Labour, Redcar - £128388
Norman Baker, Lib Dem, Lewes - £113,772
Tony Baldry, Conservative, Banbury - £113,329
Tony Banks, Labour, West Ham - £122,515
Gregory Barker, Conservative, Bexhill & Battle - £117,760
Harry Barnes, Labour, NE Derbyshire - £115,391
John Baron, Conservative, Billericay - £131,455
John Barrett, Lib Dem, Edinburgh W - £127,804
Kevin Barron, Labour, Rother Valley - £126,153
John Battle, Labour, Leeds W - £116,054
Hugh Bayley, Labour, City of York - £135,638
Nigel Beard, Labour, Bexleyheath & Crayford - £111,299
Margaret Beckett, Labour, Derby S - £115,047
Anne Begg, Labour, Aberdeen S - £131,260
Roy Beggs, UU, E Antrim - £116,232
AJ Beith, Lib Dem, Berwick-upon-Tweed - £113,866
Stuart Bell, Labour, Middlesbrough - £131,346
Henry Bellingham, Conservative, NW Norfolk - £129,504
Hilary Benn, Labour, Leeds Central - £103,101
Andrew Bennett, Labour, Denton & Reddish - £125,026
Joe Benton, Labour, Bootle - £124,722
John Bercow, Conservative, Buckingham - £124,057
Paul Beresford, Conservative, Mole Valley - £109,180
Roger Berry, Labour, Kingswood - £120,405
Harold Best, Labour, Leeds NW - £116,760
Clive Betts, Labour, Sheffield, Attercliffe - £130,942
Liz Blackman, Labour, Erewash - £120,956
Tony Blair, Labour, Sedgefield - £80,836
Hazel Blears, Labour, Salford - £117,625
Bob Blizzard, Labour, Waveney - £122,486
David Blunkett, Labour, Sheffield Brightside - £111,358
Crispin Blunt, Conservative, Reigate - £113,625
Paul Boateng, Labour, Brent S - £95,004
David Borrow, Labour, S Ribble - £116,280
Tim Boswell, Conservative, Daventry - £97,658
Peter Bottomley, Conservative, Worthing W - £80,390
Virginia Bottomley, Conservative, SW Surrey - £117,093
Keith Bradley, Labour, Manchester Withington - £115,665
Peter Bradley, Labour, The Wrekin - £115,462
Ben Bradshaw, Labour, Exeter - £109,686
Graham Brady, Conservative, Altrincham & Sale W - £127,658
Tom Brake, Lib Dem, Carshalton & Wallington - £103,902
Julian Brazier, Conservative, Canterbury - £113,953
Colin Breed, Lib Dem, SE Cornwall - £116,767
Kevin Brennan, Labour, Cardiff W - £85,222
Annette Brooke, Lib Dem, Mid Dorset & N Poole - £115,311
Gordon Brown, Labour, Dunfermline E - £130,292
Nick Brown, Labour, Newcastle E & Wallsend - £137,354
Russell Brown, Labour, Dumfries - £129,036
Des Browne, Labour, Kilmarnock & Loudoun - £118,060
Angela Browning, Conservative, Tiverton & Honiton - £129,487
Malcolm Bruce, Lib Dem, Gordon - £133,957
Chris Bryant, Labour, Rhondda - £132,104
Karen Buck, Labour, Regent's Park & Kensington N - £108,905
Richard Burden, Labour, Birmingham, Northfield - £119,900
Colin Burgon, Labour, Elmet - £121,935
John Burnett, Lib Dem, Torridge & W Devon - £138,502
Andy Burnham, Labour, Leigh - £123,248
Simon Burns, Conservative, W Chelmsford - £120,236
David Burnside, UU, S Antrim - £127,050
Paul Burstow, Lib Dem, Sutton & Cheam - £107,964
Alistair Burt, Conservative, NE Bedfordshire - £120,697
John Butterfill, Conservative, Bournemouth W - £117,509
Stephen Byers, Labour, N Tyneside - £128,454
Vincent Cable, Lib Dem, Twickenham - £117,249
Richard Caborn, Labour, Sheffield Central - £125,944
David Cairns, Labour, Greenock & Inverclyde - £133,608
Patsy Calton, Lib Dem, Cheadle - £120,110
David Cameron, Conservative, Witney - £119,829
Alan Campbell, Labour, Tynemouth - £121,295
Anne Campbell, Labour, Cambridge - £137,913
Gregory Campbell, DU, E Londonderry - £127,871
Menzies Campbell, Lib Dem, NE Fife - £117,010
Ronnie Campbell, Labour, Blyth Valley - £126,558
Ivor Caplin, Labour, Hove - £129,133
Alistair Carmichael, Lib Dem, Orkney & Shetland - £140,999
Roger Casale, Labour, Wimbledon - £128,621
William Cash, Conservative, Stone - £115,299
Martin Caton, Labour, Gower - £105,775
Ian Cawsey, Labour, Brigg & Goole - £113,150
Colin Challen, Labour, Morley & Rothwell - £114,435
Ben Chapman, Labour, Wirral S - £142,358
Sydney Chapman, Conservative, Chipping Barnet - £114,718
David Chaytor, Labour, Bury N - £128,053
David Chidgey, Lib Dem, Eastleigh - £123,002
Christopher Chope, Conservative, Christchurch - £104,741
Michael Clapham, Labour, Barnsley W & Penistone - £98,305
James Clappison, Conservative, Hertsmere - £108,387
Helen Clark, Labour, Peterborough - £123,426
Lynda Clark, Labour, Edinburgh, Pentlands - £112,842
Paul Clark, Labour, Gillingham - £119,929
Charles Clarke, Labour, Norwich S - £120,816
Kenneth Clark, Conservative, Rushcliffe - £103,486
Tom Clarke, Labour, Coatbridge & Chryston - £125,724
Tony Clarke, Labour, Northampton S - £116,527
David Clelland, Labour, Tyne Bridge - £124,750
Geoffrey Clifton-Brown, Conservative, Cotswold - £114,412
Ann Clwyd, Labour, Cynon Valley - £108,811
Vernon Coaker, Labour, Gedling - £112,104
Ann Coffey, Labour, Stockport - £121,300
Harry Cohen, Labour, Leyton & Wanstead - £123,718
Iain Coleman, Labour, Hammersmith & Fulham - £95,434
Tim Collins, Conservative, Westmorland & Lonsdale - £123,918
Tony Colman, Labour, Putney - £82,936
Michael Connarty, Labour, Falkirk E - £134,450
Derek Conway, Conservative, Old Bexley & Sidcup - £131,867
Frank Cook, Labour, Stockton N - £122,616
Robin Cook, Labour, Livingston - £125,050
Yvette Cooper, Labour, Pontefract & Castleford - £129,488
Jeremy Corbyn, Labour, Islington N - £102,929
Patrick Cormack, Conservative, S Staffordshire - £124,568
Jean Corston, Labour, Bristol E - £120,850
Brian Cotter, Lib Dem, Weston-Super-Mare - £125,437
Jim Cousins, Labour, Newcastle upon Tyne Central - £130,252
Tom Cox, Labour, Tooting - £106,124
James Cran, Conservative, Beverley & Holderness - £88,524
Ross Cranston, Labour, Dudley N - £108,083
David Crausby, Labour, Bolton NE - £125,561
Jon Cruddas, Labour, Dagenham - £132,555
Ann Cryer, Labour, Keighley - £122,734
John Cryer, Labour, Hornchurch - £109,611
John Cummings, Labour, Easington - £128,325
Jack Cummings, Labour, Copeland - £122,788
Jim Cummings, Labour, Coventry S - £111,861
Tony Cummings, Labour, Workington - £119,990
David Curry, Conservative, Skipton & Ripon - £113,701
Claire Curtis-Thomas, Labour, Crosby - £168,889
Tam Dalyell, Labour, Linlithgow - £82,376
Alistair Darling, Labour, Edinburgh Central - £112,729
Edward Davey, Lib Dem, Kingston & Surbiton - £108,628
Valerie Davey, Labour, Bristol W - £108,564
Wayne David, Labour, Caerphilly - £120,640
Ian Davidson, Lab/Co-op, Glasgow Pollock - £144,665
Denzil Davies, Labour, Llanelli - £92,604
Geraint Davies, Labour, Croydon Central - £127,938
Quentin Davies, Conservative, Grantham & Stamford - £124,592
David Davis, Conservative, Haltemprice & Howden - £115,328
Terry Davis, Labour, Birmingham Hodge Hill - £108,729
Hilton Dawson, Labour, Lancaster & Wyre - £135,082
Janet Dean, Labour, Burton - £112,671
John Denham, Labour, Southampton Itchen - £114,201
Parmjit Dhanda, Labour, Gloucester - £134,584
Andrew Dismore, Labour, Hendon - £147,650
Jonathan Djanogly, Conservative, Huntingdon - £115,535
Jim Dobbin, Lab/Co-op, Heywood & Middleton - £117,769
Frank Dobson, Labour, Holborn & St Pancras - £100,576
Nigel Dodds, DU, Belfast N - £136,442
Pat Doherty, SF, W Tyrone - £104,064
Jeffrey M. Donaldson, DU, Lagan Valley - £115,814
Brian Donohoe, Labour, Cunninghame S - £141,112
Frank Doran, Labour, Aberdeen Central - £144,317
Stephen Dorrell, Conservative, Charnwood - £91,336
Sue Doughty, Lib Dem, Guildford - £112,664
Jim Dowd, Labour, Lewisham W - £101,670
David Drew, Labour/Co-op, Stroud - £127,846
Julia Drown, Labour, S Swindon - £114,894
Alan Duncan, Conservative, Rutland & Melton - £116,099
Peter Duncan, Conservative, Galloway & Upper Nithsdale - £144,655
Iain Duncan Smith, Conservative, Chingford & Woodford Green - £104,222
Gwyneth Dunwoody, Labour, Crewe & Nantwich - £110,053
Angela Eagle, Labour, Wallasey - £111,849
Maria Eagle, Labour, Liverpool, Garston - £112,022
Huw Edwards, Labour, Monmouth - £127,243
Clive Efford, Labour, Eltham - £105,213
Louise Ellman, Labour/Co-op, Liverpool, Riverside - £130,633
Jeff Ennis, Labour, Barnsley E & Mexborough - £102,998
Bill Etherington, Labour, Sunderland N - £126,585
Nigel Evans, Conservative, Ribble Valley - £141,910
Annabelle Ewing, SNP, Perth - £124,280
Michael Fabricant, Conservative, Lichfield - £113,726
Michael Fallon, Conservative, Sevenoaks - £109,768
Paul Farrelly, Labour, Newcastle-under-Lyme - £135,764
Frank Field, Labour, Birkenhead - £118,505
Mark Field, Conservative, Cities of London & Westminster - £100,287
Mark Fisher, Labour, Stoke-on-Trent Central - £116,078
Jim Fitzpatrick, Labour, Poplar & Canning Town - £102,787
Lorna Fitzsimons, Labour, Rochdale - £129,451
Howard Flight, Conservative, Arundel & South Downs - £120,154
Caroline Flint, Labour, Don Valley - £127,167
Adrian Flook, Conservative, Taunton - £120,842
Paul Flynn, Labour, Newport W - £116,349
Barbara Follett, Labour, Stevenage - £118,214
Eric Forth, Conservative, Bromley & Chislehurst - £114,579
Derek Foster, Labour, Bishop Auckland - £132,883
Don Foster, Lib Dem, Bath - £114,295
Michael Foster, Labour, Worcester - £131,512
Michael Jabez Foster, Labour, Hastings & Rye - £114,680
George Foulkes, Labour/Co-op, Carrick, Cumnock & Doon Valley - £134,311
Liam Fox, Conservative, Woodspring - £126,920
Hywel Francis, Labour, Aberavon - £121,617
Mark Francois, Conservatives, Rayleigh - £108,478
Roger Gale, Conservative, N Thanet - £125,760
George Galloway, Respect, Glasgow, Kelvin - £107,593
Mike Gapes, Labour/Co-op, Ilford S - £124,410
Barry Gardiner, Labour, Brent N - £135,451
Edward Garnier, Conservative, Harborough - £112,043
Andrew George, Lib Dem, St Ives - £143,773
Bruce George, Labour, Walsall S - £114,634
Neil Gerrard, Labour, Walthamstow - £92,228
Nick Gibb, Conservative, Bognor Regis & Littlehampton - £117,198
Ian Gibson, Labour, Norwich N - £119,094
Sandra Gidley, Lib Dem, Romsey - £119,985
Michelle Gildernew, SF, Fermanagh & S Tyrone - £115,420
Cheryl Gillan, Conservative, Chesham & Amersham - £121,206
Linda Gilroy, Labour/Co-op, Plymouth, Sutton - £117,652
Roger Godsiff, Labour, Birmingham Sparkbrook & Small Heath - £128,493
Paul Goggins, Labour, Wythenshawe & Sale E - £121,867
Paul Goodman, Conservative, Wycombe - £96,026
James Gray, Conservative, N Wiltshire - £130,464
Chris Grayling, Conservative, Epsom & Ewell - £119,721
Damian Green, Conservative, Ashford - £119,084
Matthew Green, Lib Dem, Ludlow - £127,693
John Greenway, Conservative, Ryedale - £129,328
Dominic Grieve, Conservative, Beaconsfield - £110,719
Jane Griffiths, Labour, Reading E - £119,171
Nigel Griffiths, Labour, Edinburgh S - £135,282
Win Griffiths, Labour, Bridgend - £107,463
John Grogan, Labour, Selby - £142,490
John Gummer, Conservative, Suffolk Coastal - £108,938
William Hague, Conservative, Richmond - £129,075
Peter Hain, Labour, Neath - £127,626
Mike Hall, Labour, Weaver Vale - £133,706
Patrick Hall, Labour, Bedford - £111,094
David Hamilton, Labour, Midlothian - £109,427
Fabian Hamilton, Labour, Leeds NE - £126,009
Philip Hammond, Conservative, Runnymede & Weybridge - £107,325
Mike Hancock, Lib Dem, Portsmouth S - £118,914
David Hanson, Labour, Delyn - £127,824
Harriet Harman, Labour, Camberwell & Peckham - £107,649
Evan Harris, Labour, Oxford W & Abingdon - £121,685
Tom Harris, Labour, Glasgow, Cathcart - £123,448
Nick Harvey, Lib Dem, N Devon - £126,591
Alan Haselhurst, CWM, Saffron Walden - £105,718
Dai Havard, Labour, Merthyr Tydfil & Rhymney - £120,301
Nick Hawkins, Conservative, Surrey Heath - £120,646
John Hayes, Conservative, South Holland & The Deepings - £133,950
Sylvia Heal, DCWM, Halesowen & Rowley Regis - £107,474
Oliver Heald, Conservative, NE Hertfordshire - £119,886
John Healey, Labour, Wentworth - £122,164
David Heath, Lib Dem, Somerton & Frome - £119,209
David Heathcoat-Amory, Conservative, Wells - £99,278
Doug Henderson, Labour, Newcastle upon Tyne N - £142,977
Ivan Henderson, Labour, Harwich - £119,851
Mark Hendrick, Labour/Co-op, Preston - £129,447
Charles Hendry, Conservative, Wealden - £125,811
Stephen Hepburn, Labour, Jarrow - £130,583
John Heppell, Labour, Nottingham E - £119,795
Lady Hermon, UU, North Down - £121,354
Stephen Hesford, Labour, Wirral W - £136,274
Patricia Hewitt, Labour, Leicester W - £121,598
David Heyes, Labour, Ashton-under-Lyne - £122,482
Keith Hill, Labour, Streatham - £98,898
David Hinchliffe, Labour, Wakefield - £117,090
Mark Hoban, Conservative, Fareham - £116,781
Margaret Hodge, Labour, Barking - £103,778
Kate Hoey, Labour, Vauxhall - £81,103
Douglas Hogg, Conservative, Sleaford & North Hykeham - £102,791
Paul Holmes, Lib Dem, Chesterfield - £138,129
Jimmy Hood, Labour, Clydesdale - £134,110
Geoff Hoon, Labour, Ashfield - £86,713
Phil Hope, Labour/Co-op, Corby - £125,559
Kelvin Hopkins, Labour, Luton N - £86,135
John Horam, Conservative, Orpington - £103,930
Michael Howard, Conservative, Folkestone & Hythe - £126,658
Alan Howarth, Labour, Newport E - £92,149
George Howarth, Labour, Sefton E - £129,983
Gerald Howarth, Conservative, Aldershot - £112,215
Kim Howells, Labour, Pontypridd - £111,156
Lindsay Hoyle, Labour, Chorley - £144,398
Beverley Hughes, Labour, Stretford & Urmston - £128,000
Kevin Hughes, Labour, Doncaster N - £97,981
Simon Hughes, Lib Dem, N Southwark & Bermondsey - £104,160
Joan Humble, Labour, Blackpool N & Fleetwood - £117,083
John Hume, SDLP, Foyle - £94,867
Andrew Hunter, Independent Conservative, Basingstoke - £123,676
Alan Hurst, Labour, Braintree - £88,077
John Hutton, Labour, Barrow & Furness - £128,862
Brian Iddon, Labour, Bolton SE - £100,755
Eric Illsley, Labour, Barnsley Central - £107,572
Adam Ingram, Labour, E Kilbride - £108,974
Huw Irranca-Davies, Labour, Ogmore - £138,329
Michael Jack, Conservative, Fylde - £129,042
Glenda Jackson, Labour, Hampstead & Highgate - £99,361
Helen Jackson, Labour, Sheffield, Hillsborough - £11,1680
Robert Jackson, Conservative, Wantage - £123,818
David Jamieson, Labour, Plymouth, Devonport - £130,563
Bernard Jenkin, Conservative, N Essex - £119,881
Brian Jenkins, Labour, Tamworth - £112,756
Alan Johnson, Labour, Kingston upon Hull W & Hessle - £98,815
Boris Johnson, Conservative, Henley - £117,373
Melanie Johnson, Labour, Welwyn Hatfield - £110,775
Helen Jones, Labour, Warrington N - £125,924
Jon Owen Jones, Labour/Co-op, Cardiff Central - £117,936
Kevan Jones, Labour, N Durham - £121,180
Lynne Jones, Labour, Birmingham Selly Oak - £116,958
Martyn Jones, Labour, Clwyd S - £128,898
Nigel Jones, Lib Dem, Cheltenham - £115,039
Tessa Jowell, Labour, Dulwich & W Norwood - £101,100
Eric Joyce, Labour, Falkirk W - £152,861
Gerald Kaufman, Labour, Manchester Gorton - £115,538
Sally Keeble, Labour, Northampton N - £119,912
Alan Keen, Labour/Co-op, Feltham & Heston - £119,434
Ann Keen, Labour, Brentford & Isleworth - £112,457
Paul Keetch, Lib Dem, Hereford - £129,158
Ruth Kelly, Labour, Bolton W - £108,507
Fraser Kemp, Labour, Houghton & Washington E - £124,539
Charles Kennedy, Lib Dem, Ross, Skye & Inverness W - £121,630
Jane Kennedy, Labour, Liverpool, Wavertree - £97,707
Robert Key, Conservative, Salisbury - £105,269
Piara Khabra, Labour, S Ealing Southall - £112,910
David Kidney, Labour, Stafford - £113,480
Peter Kilfoyle, Labour, Liverpool Walton - £125,347
Andy King, Labour, Rugby & Kenilworth - £124,540
Oona King, Labour, Bethnal Green & Bow - £106,408
Julie Kirkbride, Conservative, Bromsgrove - £127,878
Archy Kirkwood, Lib Dem, Roxburgh & Berwickshire - £114887
Greg Knight, Conservative, E Yorkshire - £114,563
Jim Kirkwood, Labour, S Dorset - £120,985
Ashok Kumar, Labour, Middlesbrough S & E Cleveland - £143,796
Stephen Ladyman, Labour, S Thanet - £111,812
Eleanor Laing, Conservative, Epping Forest - £109,638
Jacqui Lait, Conservative, Beckenham - £132,797
Norman Lamb, Lib Dem, N Norfolk - £120,413
David Lammy, Labour, Tottenham - £114,390
Andrew Lansley, Conservative, S Cambridgeshire - £115,414
Jackie Lawrence, Labour, Preseli Pembrokeshire - £126,729
David Laws, Lib Dem, Yeovil - £128,922
Bob Laxton, Labour, Derby N - £117,558
Mark Lazarowicz, Labour/Co-op, Edinburgh N & Leith - £126,174
Edward Leigh, Conservative, Gainsborough - £116,446
David Lepper, Labour/Co-op, Brighton Pavilion - £111,385
Christopher Leslie, Labour, Shipley - £118,329
Oliver Letwin, Conservative, W Dorset - £121,734
Tom Levitt, Labour, High Peak - £124,104
Ivan Lewis, Labour, Bury S - £117,517
Julian Lewis, Conservative, New Forest E - £112,741
Terry Lewis, Labour, Worsley - £88,735
Helen Liddell, Labour, Airdrie & Shotts - £112,349
Ian Liddell-Grainger, Conservative, Bridgwater - £117,536
David Lidington, Conservative, Aylesbury - £121,522
Peter Lilley, Conservative, Hitchin & Harpenden - £116,860
Martin Linton, Labour, Battersea - £106,471
Tony Lloyd, Labour, Manchester Central - £110,027
Elfyn Llwyd, PC, Meirionnydd Nant Conwy - £130,458
Michael Lord, DCWM, Central Suffolk & N Ipswich - £117,212
Tim Loughton, Conservative, E Worthing & Shoreham - £124,857
Andrew Love, Labour/Co-op, Edmonton - £123,949
Ian Lucas, Labour, Wrexham - £115,188
Peter Luff, Conservative, Mid Worcestershire - £119,410
Iain Luke, Labour, Dundee E - £120,008
John Lyons, Labour, Strathkelvin - £141,435
Thomas McAvoy, Labour/Co-op, Glasgow Rutherglen - £130,235
Stephen McCabe, Labour, Birmingham Hall Green - £70,516
Chris McCafferty, Labour, Calder Valley - £129,469
Ian McCartney, Labour, Makerfield - £104,184
Siobhain McDonagh, Labour, Mitcham & Morden - £139,988
Calum MacDonald, Labour, Western Isles - £134,393
John McDonnell, Labour, Hayes & Harlington - £131,388
John MacDougall, Labour, Central Fife - £127,717
John McFall, Labour/Co-op, Dumbarton - £137,597
Eddie McGrady, SDLP, South Down - £118,895
Martin McGuinness, SF, Mid Ulster - £110,653
Anne McGuire, Labour, Stirling - £123,605
Anne McIntosh, Conservative, Vale of York - £117,624
Shona McIsaac, Labour, Cleethorpes - £113,538
Andrew Mackay, Conservative, Bracknell - £114,061
Ann McKechin, Labour, Glasgow, Maryhill - £113,410
Rosemary McKenna, Labour, Cumbernauld & Kilsyth - £123,957
Andrew Mackinlay, Labour, Thurrock - £120,261
David Maclean, Conservative, Penrith & The Border - £124,316
Patrick McLoughlin, Conservative, West Derbyshire - £125,340
Kevin McNamara, Labour, Kingston upon Hull N - £121,747
Tony McNulty, Labour, Harrow E - £107,639
Denis MacShane, Labour, Rotherham - £126,943
Fiona Mactaggart, Labour, Slough - £102,271
Tony McWalter, Labour/Co-op, Hemel Hempstead - £126,486
John McWilliam, Labour, Blaydon - £130,654
Khalid Mahmood, Labour, Birmingham Perry Barr - £125,30
Alice Mahon, Labour, Halifax - £125,966
Humfrey Malins, Conservative, Woking - £117,750
Judy Mallaber, Labour, Amber Valley - £105,405
Seamus Mallon, SDLP, Newry & Armagh - £116,311
Peter Mandelson, Labour, Hartlepool - £98,898
John Mann, Labour, Bassetlaw - £132,792
John Maples, Conservative, Stratford-on-Avon - £109,059
Rob Marris, Labour, Wolverhampton SW - £104,427
Gordon Marsden, Labour, Blackpool S - £114,075
Paul Marsden, Lib Dem, Shrewsbury & Atcham - £136,869
David Marshall, Labour, Glasgow, Shettleston - £107,170
Robert Marshall-Andrews, Labour, Medway - £114,911
Michael Martin, SPK, Glasgow, Springburn - £98,025
Eric Martlew, Labour, Carlisle - £112,742
Michael Mates, Conservative, E Hampshire - £121,654
Francis Maude, Conservative, Horsham - £115,949
Brian Mawhinney, Conservative, NW Cambridgeshire - £85,248
Theresa May, Conservative, Maidenhead - £92,331
Michael Meacher, Labour, Oldham W & Royton - £109,270
Alan Meale, Labour, Mansfield - £132,122
Patrick Mercer, Conservative, Newark - £123,380
Gillian Merron, Labour, Lincoln - £136,706
Alun Michael, Labour/Co-op, Cardiff S & Penarth - £101,762
Alan Milburn, Labour, Darlington - £139,734
David Miliband, Labour, South Shields - £118,493
Andrew Miller, Labour, Ellesmere Port & Neston - £122,201
Andrew Mitchell, Conservative, Sutton Coldfield - £125,641
Austin Mitchell, Labour, Great Grimsby - £134,789
Laura Moffatt, Labour, Crawley - £92,133
Chris Mole, Labour, Ipswich - £121,184
Lewis Moonie, Labour/Co-op, Kirkcaldy - £112,560
Michael Moore, Lib Dem, Ettrick & Lauderdale - £130,912
Margaret Moran, Labour, Luton S - £139,132
Julie Morgan, Labour, Cardiff N - £112,373
Elliot Morley, Labour, Scunthorpe - £109,231
Estelle Morris, Labour, Birmingham Yardley - £101,029
Malcolm Moss, Conservative, NE Cambridgeshire - £121,215
Kali Mountford, Labour, Colne Valley - £134,325
George Mudie, Labour, Leeds E - £120,696
Chris Mullin, Labour, Sunderland S - £95,228
Meg Munn, Labour/Co-op, Sheffield, Heeley - £134,573
Denis Murphy, Labour, Wansbeck - £128,426
Jim Murphy, Labour, Eastwood - £133,821
Paul Murphy, Labour, Torfaen - £107,777
Andrew Murrison, Conservative, Westbury - £107,733
Doug Naysmith, Labour/Co-op, Bristol NW - £118,395
Archie Norman, Conservative, Tunbridge Wells - £102,212
Dan Norris, Labour, Wansdyke - £140,811
Mark Oaten, Lib Dem, Winchester - £127,691
Bill O'Brien, Labour, Normanton - £117,144
Mike O'Brien, Labour, N Warwickshire - £123,605
Stephen O'Brien, Conservative, Eddisbury - £128,262
Edward O'Hara, Labour, Knowsley S - £125,300
Bill Olner, Labour, Nuneaton - £108,418
Martin O'Neill, Labour, Ochil - £135,575
Lembit Öpik, Lib Dem, Montgomeryshire - £119,537
Diana Organ, Labour, Forest of Dean - £121,117
George Osborne, Conservative, Tatton - £128,852
Sandra Osborne, Labour, Ayr - £124,755
Richard Ottaway, Conservative, Croydon S - £113,553
Albert Owen, Labour, Ynys Môn - £118,784
Richard Page, Conservative, SW Hertfordshire - £99,251
James Paice, Conservative, SE Cambridgeshire - £113,847
Ian Paisley, DU, North Antrim - £79,010
Nick Palmer, Labour, Broxtowe - £131,079
Owen Paterson, Conservative, N Shropshire - £130,461
Ian Pearson, Labour, Dudley S - £117,984
Linda Perham, Labour, Ilford N - £121,719
Anne Picking, Labour, E Lothian - £148,818
Eric Pickles, Conservative, Brentwood & Ongar - £106,316
Colin Pickthall, Labour, W Lancashire - £124,295
Peter Pike, Labour, Burnley - £153,989
James Plaskitt, Labour, Warwick & Leamington - £122,578
Kerry Pollard, Labour, St Albans - £114,537
Chris Pond, Labour, Gravesham - £130,642
Greg Pope, Labour, Hyndburn - £106,271
Michael Portillo, Conservative, Kensington & Chelsea - £89,644
Stephen Pound, Labour, Ealing N - £111,601
Bridget Prentice, Labour, Lewisham E - £102,500
Gordon Prentice, Labour, Pendle - £123,419
John Prescott, Labour, Kingston upon Hull E - £107,299
Adam Price, PC, Carmarthen E & Dinefwr - £120,491
Dawn Primarolo, Labour, Bristol S - £110,098
Mark Prisk, Conservative, Hertford & Stortford - £114,757
Gwyn Prosser, Labour, Dover - £118,427
John Pugh, Lib Dem, Southport - £117,434
Ken Purchase, Labour/Co-op, Wolverhampton NE - £117,662
James Purnell, Labour, Stalybridge & Hyde - £139,195
Joyce Quin, Labour, Gateshead E & Washington W - £107,707
Lawrie Quinn, Labour, Scarborough & Whitby - £133,922
Bill Rammell, Labour, Harlow - £139,218
John Randall, Conservative, Uxbridge - £105,803
Syd Rapson, Labour, Portsmouth N - £95,737
Nick Raynsford, Labour, Greenwich & Woolwich - £84,502
John Redwood, Conservative, Wokingham - £111,532
Andy Redwood, Labour/Co-op, Loughborough - £128,326
Alan Reid, Lib Dem, Argyll & Bute - £95,569
John Reid, Labour, Hamilton N & Bellshill - £88,925
David Rendel, Lib Dem, Newbury - £115,309
Andrew Robathan, Conservative, Blaby - £106,123
Angus Robertson, SNP, Moray - £147,975
Hugh Robertson, Conservative, Faversham & Mid Kent - £115,326
John Robertson, Labour, Glasgow Anniesland - £131,755
Laurence Robertson, Conservative, Tewkesbury - £131,404
Geoffrey Robinson, Labour, Coventry NW - £101,678
Iris Robinson, DU, Strangford - £139,129
Peter Robinson, DU, Belfast E - £121,410
Barbara Roche, Labour, Hornsey & Wood Green - £116,005
Marion Roe, Conservative, Broxbourne - £122,082
Terry Rooney, Labour, Bradford N - £109,991
Andrew Rosindell, Conservative, Romford - £139,277
Ernie Ross, Labour, Dundee W - £124,968
Frank Roy, Labour, Motherwell & Wishaw - £123,717
Chris Ruane, Labour, Vale of Clwyd - £122,564
Joan Ruddock, Labour, Lewisham & Deptford - £99,548
David Ruffley, Conservative, Bury St Edmunds - £121,521
Bob Russell, Lib Dem, Colchester - £110,447
Christine Russell, Labour, City of Chester - £129,052
Joan Ryan, Labour, Enfield N - £146,424
 

 
Unfortunately we couldn't locate the figures for surnames beginning S - Z.
 
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