So here's a list of Labour MPs who voted enthusiastically for the smoking ban but would probably have cried out for smoker support last Thursday.
Roger Berry (Kingswood) -10.6% LOSTBwaaaaaahahahahahahahaha.
Dawn Butler (Brent South) -8.9% LOST
Paul Clark (Gillingham) -13.1% LOST
Charles Clarke (Norwich South) -8.7% LOST
Parmjit Dhanda (Gloucester) -12.4% LOST
Andrew Dismore (Hendon) -3% LOST
David Drew (Stroud) -1.5% LOST
Michael Foster (Hastings & Rye) -3.5% LOST
Dr Ian Gibson (Norwich North) -15.7% LOST
Linda Gilroy (Plymouth Sutton) -9% LOST
Patrick Hall (Bedford) -5.7% LOST
Phil Hope (Corby) -4.5% LOST
Sally Keeble (Northampton North) -9.4% LOST
Ann Keen (Feltham & Heston) -5.4% LOST
David Kidney (Stafford) -10.2% LOST
Jim Knight (Dorset South) -11.4% LOST
Stephen Ladyman (Thanet South) -8.1% LOST
David Lepper (Brighton Pavilion) -7.5% LOST
Martin Linton (Battersea) -5.6% LOST
Sarah McCarthy-Fry (Portsmouth North) -10.8% LOST
Tony McNulty (Harrow East) -7.9% LOST
Shahid Malik (Dewsbury) -8.4% LOST
Judy Mallaber (Amber Valley) -9% LOST
Rob Marris (Wolverhampton South West) -4.5% LOST
Eric Martlew (Carlisle) -9.6% LOST
Chris Mole (Ipswich) -8.2% LOST
Julie Morgan (Cardiff North) -1.9% LOST
Dan Norris (Wansdyke) -7% LOST
Nick Palmer (Broxtowe) -3.4% LOST
Gordon Prentice (Pendle) -6.2% LOST
Gwyn Prosser (Dover) -11.8% LOST
Bill Rammell (Harlow) -7.7% LOST
Andy Reed (Loughborough) -6.7% LOST
Terry Rooney (Bradford North) -11.3% LOST
Martin Salter (Reading West) -14.5% LOST
Jonathan Shaw (Chatham & Aylesford) -12.7% LOST
Angela Smith (Basildon) -9.7% LOST
Jacqui Smith (Redditch) -13.4% LOST
Anne Snelgrove (Swindon South) -6.2% LOST
Phyllis Starkey (Milton Keynes South West) -8.6% LOST
Howard Stoate (Dartford) -15.5% LOST
Dari Taylor (Stockton South) -9.4% LOST
Desmond Turner (Brighton Kemptown) -4.1% LOST
Lynda Waltho (Stourbridge) -10.4% LOST
Anthony Wright (Great Yarmouth) -12.7% LOST
Good riddance to the stinking lot of them.
Interestingly, in Scotland where there was already a ban imposed by Holyrood not Westminster (but Scottish MPs were allowed to vote on an English ban nonetheless), the trend was reversed. Of the 26 Scottish Labour MPs who voted for the Health Act 2006, only Jim Devine (-2.6) and Ann Begg (-0.2) experienced a reduction in their share of the vote. The average increase between them all was 3.4%.
Funny, that.
