Our charitable Tory MPs

MPs don’t get much respect these days. So it’s good to see their work with charities recognised in the ePolitix.com Charity Champion Awards. It’s also good to see Conservative MPs nominated in so many categories – thereby challenging a few stereotypes.

Among the Conservative nominations this year are Greg Clark (nominated by the Association of Garden Trusts for his high profile campaign against ‘garden grabbing’), Ed Vaizey (nominated by YoungMinds as “Children and Youth Champion” - also see his 'homeless project diary'), Jeremy Hunt (nominated by the Multiple Sclerosis Society) and Bill Wiggin (nominated by the RSPCA for his work on animal welfare).

Other Conservative nominees include David Cameron, Ann Widdecombe, Sir Patrick Cormack, Roger Gale, Angela Browning, Grant Shapps, Richard Benyon and John Bercow.

Friends of the Earth have jointly nominated Oliver Letwin and Norman Baker for their bi-partisan work on climate change.

Good to see that voting in these awards is comparatively open and democratic. Anyone with a Parliamentary e-mail address can vote here.

Comments

[Sally Roberts]

Delighted to see Jeremy Hunt nominated. Jeremy has certainly worked hard both in his shadow ministerial role and prior to that for various good causes. He has been a good friend of mine going back over several years beginning when he was my local ward chairman! To those who scoff at MPs and say that they are "all in it for themselves" I would cite Jeremy as a superb example of where that is completely untrue!

[malcolm]

I would love to vote in this but am unaware of much of the work done by these people.Is there any chance of you getting all the nominees to write a paragraph on their work Tim?

[Peter Harrison]

Malcolm - if you follow the link you will see that you can't vote unless you have a "parliament.uk" email address.

[malcolm]

You're right Peter sorry.

[Editor]

I'm not sure it's a good idea that only folk with parliamentary email addresses can vote... it kind of skews the vote towards Labour's current majority of parliamentary etc staff.