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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-29386646

The Scottish Breakdown:

MPs against

Labour

Dame Anne Begg (Aberdeen South)

Katy Clark (Ayrshire North & Arran)

Ian Davidson (Glasgow South West)

Mark Lazarowicz (Edinburgh North & Leith)

Iain McKenzie (Inverclyde)

SNP

Stewart Hosie (Dundee East) - Scottish National Party (SNP)

Angus MacNeil (Na h-Eileanan an Iar) - SNP

Angus Robertson (Moray) - SNP

Mike Weir (Angus) - SNP

Eilidh Whiteford (Banff & Buchan) - SNP

Pete Wishart (Perth and North Perthshire) - SNP

MPs in favour

Conservartive

David Mundell (Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale & Tweeddale)

Liberal Democrats

Danny Alexander (Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch & Strathspey)

Malcolm Bruce (Gordon)

Sir Menzies Campbell (Fife North East)

Alistair Carmichael (Orkney & Shetland)

Michael Crockart (Edinburgh West)

Michael Moore (Berwickshire, Roxburgh & Selkirk)

Alan Reid (Argyll & Bute)

Sir Robert Smith (Aberdeenshire West & Kincardine)

Jo Swinson (Dunbartonshire East)

Labour

Douglas Alexander (Paisley & Renfrewshire South)

Willie Bain (Glasgow North East)

Gordon Banks (Ochil & Perthshire South)

Russell Brown (Dumfries & Galloway)

Tom Clarke (Coatbridge, Chryston & Bellshill)

Alistair Darling (Edinburgh South West)

Thomas Docherty (Dunfermline & Fife West)

Gemma Doyle (Dunbartonshire West)

Tom Greatrex (Rutherglen & Hamilton West)

Tom Harris (Glasgow South)

Jim Hood (Lanark & Hamilton East)

Cathy Jamieson (Kilmarnock & Loudoun)

Michael McCann (East Kilbride, Strathaven & Lesmahagow)

Jim McGovern (Dundee West)

Jim Murphy (Renfrewshire East)

Pamela Nash (Airdrie & Shotts)

Sandra Osborne (Ayr, Carrick & Cumnock)

John Robertson (Glasgow North West)

Lindsay Roy (Glenrothes)

Anas Sarwar (Glasgow Central)

Jim Sheridan (Paisley & Renfrewshire North)

Others

Eric Joyce (Falkirk) - Independent

Abstensions

Liberal Democrats

Charles Kennedy (Ross, Skye & Lochaber)

John Thurso (Caithness, Sutherland & Easter Ross)

Labour

Gordon Brown (Kirkcaldy & Cowdenbeath)

Michael Connarty (Linlithgow & Falkirk East)

Margaret Curran (Glasgow East)

Brian Donohoe (Ayrshire Central)

Frank Doran (Aberdeen North)

Sheila Gilmore (Edinburgh East)

David Hamilton (Midlothian)

Gregg McClymont (Cumbernauld, Kilsyth & Kirkintilloch East)

Anne McGuire (Stirling)

Ann McKechin (Glasgow North)

Graeme Morrice (Livingston)

Ian Murray (Edinburgh South)

Fiona O'Donnell (East Lothian)

Frank Roy (Motherwell & Wishaw)

Thoughts? Representative of the electorate they're representing?

Edited to add Jim Murphy and to tidy it up a bit.

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Frank Roy abstained. Nice to see an MP having some balls and doing his job in Parliament by voting on big decisions.

What a fucking waste of space. :rolleyes:

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Frank Roy abstained. Nice to see an MP having some balls and doing his job in Parliament by voting on big decisions.

What a fucking waste of space. :rolleyes:

To be fair, I'm amazed my MP abstained. She's usually on the opposite side to absolutely everything I believe in. Her sitting on the fence is about the best I could possibly hope for.

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Mine did. IS are an evil organisation and the fact that there are politicians who won't actively stop them is a disgrace imo. I'd be angry if my MSP didn't vote in favour of air strikes

Sending six planes to bomb them - and undoubtedly kill innocent civilians, just as IS supposedly do - is a token effort. It may also be seen as a fairly cowardly act by some in that part of the world, as they won't fight them on the ground. Instead they prefer to play god and drop death from above.

Will bombing IS make them more or less likely to plan attacks on the UK?

Also, are they ISIS, IS or ISIL? Very confusing.

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Its not in our interests to have a strong or wealthy country outwith our influence in the middle east, another 100 years of civil unrest and funding all sides, puppet government, tribal disputes and general anarchy suits us just fine. It's easier to negotiate 'reconstruction', arms or energy deals with tinpot generals and whichever unorganised gang they happen to lead than it ever would be an elected leader of a stable or rich country. UK and US corporations have been doing well out of the region for decades so why should they do anything to change that.

Not such a good deal for those on the ground, fairly neutral for us, doesn't change our lot bombing people either way.

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Mine did. IS are an evil organisation and the fact that there are politicians who won't actively stop them is a disgrace imo. I'd be angry if my MSP didn't vote in favour of air strikes

The Scottish govt has an air forece now???

Am in two minds about this but... I do know that every missile we fire costs £1m. That's £1m we won't have, or apparently don't want to, spend on other things such as the NHS, better public transport or the environment.

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Lastly, IS are evil but is that it? What about Boku Harum (spelling?) or the other various groupings that are slaughtering people in the Middle-East, Africa or Indonesia? Are we gonna go after them all?

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Frank Roy abstained. Nice to see an MP having some balls and doing his job in Parliament by voting on big decisions.

What a fucking waste of space. :rolleyes:

He really is an absolute cretin. Somehow been MP for this area for god knows how long.
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My MP, along with every other SNP MP, voting against it I see.

I don't think this tells us as much as we'd believe. I saw a UKIP guy on the telly saying he supported airstrikes provided it didn't eventually lead to more ground troops being used.

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