Heidi Allen to lead 'Change UK'

So, Heidi Allen is to be leader of the re-branded The Independent Group (Now Change UK - really mining that vacuous, non-aligned, post-ideological, aspirational, sub-Obama seam of meaninglessness.)

At least she is guaranteed a footnote in the history books - Chukka Umuna must be sick with envy at that.

Let's remind ourselves of Allen's voting record:

Anti diversity:

•  Consistently voted against laws to promote equality and human rights.

Wants people to suffer:

• Has never voted on allowing terminally ill people to be given assistance to end their life

Warmonger:

• Consistently voted for use of UK military forces in combat operations overseas
• Voted against investigations into the Iraq war

Doesn't care about the poor and needy:

• Generally voted against paying higher benefits over longer periods for those unable to work due to illness or disability
• Generally voted for a reduction in spending on welfare benefits
• Consistently voted for phasing out secure tenancies for life
• Generally voted against greater public control of bus services

Serves the rich:

• Consistently voted for raising the threshold at which people start to pay income tax
• Consistently voted against higher taxes on banks
• Consistently voted for more restrictive regulation of trade union activity
• Consistently voted for reducing capital gains tax
• Consistently voted for reducing the rate of corporation tax

Anti-democracy, devolution and local control:

• Voted for fewer MPs in the House of Commons
• Consistently voted for reducing central government funding of local government
• Voted against a more proportional system for electing MPs
• Voted against a wholly elected House of Lords
• Voted against removing hereditary peers from the House of Lords
• Generally voted against transferring more powers to the Welsh Assembly
• Generally voted against transferring more powers to the Scottish Parliament
• Almost always voted against more powers for local councils

Contempt for young people:

• Almost always voted against a lower voting age

Little concern for refugees and immigrants:

• Consistently voted for a stricter asylum system
• Almost always voted for stronger enforcement of immigration rules

Like snooping:

• Consistently voted for requiring the mass retention of information about communications
• Consistently voted for mass surveillance of people’s communications and activities

Doesn't care about the environment;

• Consistently voted against measures to prevent climate change
• Voted against financial incentives for low carbon emission electricity generation methods
• Consistently voted against a publicly owned railway system

Oddly, used to hate the EU, but now purports to like it:

• Generally voted against a right to remain for EU nationals already in living in the UK
• Generally voted against UK membership of the EU

Ye shall know them by their fruits. Don't be fooled by her 'bubbly' exterior and her "I'm just like everyone, I eat chips at Nandos" routine.