Lewis Moonie MP
An unofficial blog for Lewis Moonie, Labour MP for Kirkcaldy.
Tuesday, June 08, 2004
About Lewis Moonie
Lewis Moonie has been Kirkcaldy's MP since 1987. In that period he's been Defence Minister (yes, during the Iraq war), aswell as being an opposition spokesperson on broadcasting and the media, trade and industry and science and technology. He is a member of the Co-operative Party, ASTMS and T&G. He is also a Non-Executive Director of AEA Technologies and Mining Scotland.

He studied Medcine at St Andrews University. He is married with two sons, and his main leisure interests include walking, fishing, golf and bridge.

Politically, Lewis Moonie grew up as a Conservative, then became a Communist before settling in to Labour. He seems to regard himself as more 'old' Labour than 'New Labour', although he rejects these terms. There is an interesting quote in his BBC News Online profile:
Lewis Moonie was unexpectedly omitted from Tony Blair's first government when Labour came to power in 1997... During his unexpected years in the cold, he exhibited some coolness towards New Labour which even membership of the government does not seem entirely to have eradicated.
More recently, the Kirkcaldy Co-operative Party condemned Tony Blair for not offering Moonie the role of Energy Minister as expected. Ever since, Moonie has been a backbencher. Despite all this, Moonie describes himself as a loyalist, saying he cannot bring himself to vote against Labour.

Lewis Moonie will be standing aside due to the boundary changes in Scotland. The Labour candidate for the new Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath constituency at the next General Election will be Gordon Brown.

There are quite a few profiles out there, but most of them are pretty out-of-date. The best one seems to be the one from the Scottish Labour website, but I've already nabbed most of the stuff from that.

You can try some of the following profiles, but take them with a pinch of salt as they are mostly out-of-date.
Guardian Unlimited Aristotle
Labour
Political Links
Scottish Politics
Wikipedia

Contact Lewis Moonie
Telephone numbers:
Constituency: 01592 564 115
House of Commons: 020 7219 4097

Fax number:
Constituency: 01592 561 085
House of Commons: 020 7219 5472

Constituency address:
Suite D
Carlyle House
Carlyle Road
KIRKCALDY
KY1 1DB

Commons address:
House of Commons
LONDON
SW1A 0AA

Email address:
lgmoonie@kirkcaldy31.freeserve.co.uk
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About this blog
This is an unofficial weblog, casting an eye over Dr Lewis Moonie, Labour MP for the Kirkcaldy constituency. This blog is not affiliated with any politician or party. As the General Election nears, this blog will be paying attention to Gordon Brown aswell. more...
About Lewis Moonie
Lewis Moonie has been Kirkcaldy's Labour MP since 1987. At one stage he was Defence Minister. He is a member of the Co-operative Party. more...
Contact Lewis Moonie
Telephone numbers:
Constituency: 01592 564 115
House of Commons: 020 7219 4097

Fax number:
Constituency: 01592 561 085
House of Commons: 020 7219 5472

Constituency address:
Suite D
Carlyle House
Carlyle Road
KIRKCALDY
KY1 1DB

Commons address:
House of Commons
LONDON
SW1A 0AA

Email address:
lgmoonie@kirkcaldy31.freeserve.co.uk

Fax him for free at FaxYourMP.com
How you're represented
They Work For You - what Lewis Moonie's been saying in Parliament.
Public Whip - Lewis Moonie's voting record.
Early Day Motions
Lewis Moonie news
Each of these links brings up the latest Lewis Moonie news from the sites listed.
BBC News
Fife Today
Google News
Guardian Unlimited
Telegraph.co.uk
Kirkcaldy
Electorate (1999): 49653

2001 General Election:
L Moonie - Lab: 54.1%
S-A Somerville - SNP: 22.2%
S Campbell - Con: 10.7%
A Weston - LibDem: 10.1%
D Kinnear - SSP: 2.9%

The constituency currently stretches along the south coast of Fife from Burntisland to Buckhaven. It reaches as far north as Thornton. more...
Useful links
Moonie-related
The Labour Party
Scottish Labour
The Co-operative Party
Marilyn Livingstone - Kirkcaldy's constituency MSP

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Clive Soley
Tom Watson

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Keith Vaz
Tim Yeo

Interesting
Labour Watch
Downing Street Says - accessible lobby briefings
Bloggerheads - big on getting politicians blogging
LangToun Online - information on Kirkcaldy
Wikipedia - Kirkcaldy
Wikipedia - Lewis Moonie

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