Lucy Powell has been the Labour MP for Manchester Central since 2012 and is currently Deputy Leader of the Labour Party.
Where to begin? The Gorton & Denton by-election? My abiding memory is not so much Hannah Spencer causing a significant upset but the abysmal, negative campaign run by Labour. A campaign that was coordinated by Lucy Powell.
I don’t recall seeing the Labour candidate, Angeliki Stogia, say anything but I do remember the bitter, petulant and negative tweets that Lucy was posting every day, primarily about
@ZackPolanski and
@TheGreenParty.
Lucy does seem to court controversy. There was her dismissive ‘dog whistle’ comments in respect of grooming gangs. And Lucy has recently been found to have rented her flat to a fellow MP and claimed expenses (approx £30,000) - to cover the rent.
Lucy is member of the lobby organisation Labour Friends of Israel and was very much involved in the plots, coups and leadership bids aimed at taking down Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership of The Labour Party.
The
@ElectoralCommUK website shows that Lucy has personally been given £84,004 in donations. These include:
£15,000 from Electricity Group Ltd.
£5,000 from the Trevor Chinn, Gary Lubner funded/Morgan McSweeney run consortium @LabourTogether
£10,000 from Martin Taylor.
£9,500 from
@Opal_RealEstate
£5,016 in tickets & hospitalityfrom
@Google &
@bpi_music for two
@BRITAwards ceremonies.
£1,988 in tickets & hospitality from
@CricketAus for an Ashes match at Lords. 🏏
£333.60 in tickets from
@Channel4 for a rugby super league match. 🏉
£1,047 in tickets & hospitality from the
@EFL for the Carabao Cup Final. ⚽️
£1,600 in tickets & hospitality from
@global to attend Capital’s Summertime Ball. 🌞🍹
£2,600 in tickets & hospitality from
@PRSforMusic for the Glastonbury Festival. 🎸
£582 in tickets & hospitality from
@bpi_music to attend the Mercury Music Prize. 🎸
£990 in tickets & hospitality from Camelot to attend the Rugby League World Cup Final. 🏉
£3,432 in tickets & hospitality from
@PinewoodStudios to attend the BAFTAs 🎭
£2,741. 42 from
@unitetheunion
£1,303.40 in tickets & hospitality from
@ITV for the National Television awards. 📺
£3,440 in tickets & hospitality from
@Channel4 for the
@BAFTA awards. 🎭
£6,088 in tickets and hospitality from
@SilverstoneUK for the British Grand Prix. 🏎️
£1,050 from the
@the_LTA for
@Wimbledon tickets. 🎾
£2,860 in tickets & hospitality from
@ManCity for matches at the Ethiad.⚽️
£595 in tickets & hospitality from the
@IvorsAcademy for The Ivor Novello Awards. 🎶
£900 in tickets & hospitality from the
@premierleague for a match. ⚽️
£1,100 in tickets & hospitality from
@englandcricket for a match at Lords. 🏏
£600 in tickets & hospitality from the
@FootballAssoc for the FA Cup Semi-Final. ⚽️
£3,477.60 in tickets & hospitality from
@TheJockeyClub for the Grand National at Aintree. 🐴
£402 in tickets & hospitality from
@SOLTnews for The Olivier Awards. 🎭
£694 in tickets & hospitality from
@the_LTA for Davis Cup matches. 🎾
£470 in tickets & hospitality from
@SkyBet for the Carabao Cup Final. ⚽️
£340 in tickets & hospitality from the
@WPBSAofficial for the snooker World Championships. 🤵
With her £170,000 salary, expenses (£42,410.65 claimed in the last year), generous donations, shareholdings, rental income, housing allowances, TV and radio appearance fees and perks, Lucy is sitting very nicely in her career as an MP.
And as an MP, Lucy initially voted to retain the two-child benefit cap, voted to scrap the winter fuel payment to pensioners, voted for the welfare changes that will impact people who are disabled and unwell, voted against an inquiry into grooming gangs and voted to restrict trials by jury.
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