That crucial vote

I realised that the roll-call for the telecoms package vote had in fact been published. Below the cut, I have listed the MEPs by group (since that’s what is on the parliament site) with the Brits in red, the Irish in green and the Belgians in blue. Apologies for any mistakes or omissions.

The 407 in favour:

ALDE: Alvaro, Andrejevs, Attwooll, Baeva, Beaupuy, Bowles, Budreikaitė, Busk, Busoi, Chatzimarkakis, Ciani, Csibi, Dăianu, Davies, Dičkutė, Donnici, Drčar Murko, Duff, Ek, Ferrari, Gentvilas, Griesbeck, Hall, Harkin, Hennis-Plasschaert, in ‘t Veld, Jäätteenmäki, Jensen, Juknevičienė, Kacin, Kazak, Klinz, Koch-Mehrin, Krahmer, Lambsdorff, Laperrouze, Lax, Lebech, Lehideux, Ludford, Lynne, Maaten, Manders, Matsakis, Mohácsi, Morillon, Mulder, Newton Dunn, Neyts-Uyttebroeck, Onyszkiewicz, Oviir, Panayotov, Piskorski, Pohjamo, Polfer, Prodi, Raeva, Resetarits, Ries, Riis-Jørgensen, Robsahm, Savi, Schmidt Olle, Schuth, Staniszewska, Starkevičiūtė, Sterckx, Szent-Iványi, Vălean, Van Hecke, Veraldi, Virrankoski, Watson, Weber Renate, Wielowieyski

GUE/NGL: Adamou, Agnoletto, Aita, Brie, Catania, Droutsas, Figueiredo, Flasarová, Guerreiro, Hénin, Holm, Kaufmann, Liotard, Markov, Meijer, Papadimoulis, Pflüger, Portas, Ransdorf, Remek, Seppänen, Søndergaard, Strož, Svensson, Toussas, Uca, Wurtz, Zimmer

IND/DEM: Belder, Blokland, Clark, Dahl, Farage, Goudin, Krupa, Lundgren, Nattrass, Sinnott, Titford, Tomczak, Železný

NI: Claeys, Dillen, Fiore, Giertych, Gollnisch, Knapman, Kozlík, Lang, Le Rachinel, Martin Hans-Peter, Martinez, Mölzer, Rivera, Romagnoli, Schenardi, Vanhecke, Wise

PPE-DE: Caspary, Chmielewski, David, Fjellner, Fontaine, Fouré, Gacek, de Grandes Pascual, Grosch, Handzlik, Jackson, Jordan Cizelj, Kaczmarek, Kelam, Kušėis, Luque Aguilar, Mauro, Millán Mon, Olbrycht, Pietikäinen, Pomés Ruiz, Protasiewicz, Ribeiro e Castro, Rus, Schinas, Sonik, Thyssen, Ulmer, Visser, Vlasák, Wijkman, Zahradil, Zaleski, Zanicchi, Zwiefka

PSE: Andersson, Antochi, Arnaoutakis, Assis, Attard-Montalto, Ayala Sender, Badia i Cutchet, Barón Crespo, Battilocchio, Batzeli, Bedingfield, Beňová, Berès, Berman, Bösch, Bono, Bostinaru, Botopoulos, Boursier, Bozkurt, Bulfon, Bullmann, van den Burg, Busquin, Carlotti, Carnero González, Casaca, Cashman, Cercas, Chiesa, Christensen, Corbett, Corbey, Corda, Cottigny, Cremers, CreŃu Gabriela, De Keyser, De Rossa, Désir, De Vits, Dobolyi, Douay, Dührkop Dührkop, El Khadraoui, Estrela, Ettl, Evans Robert, Färm, Fava, Fernandes, Ferreira Anne, Ferreira Elisa, Ford, Fraile Cantón, França, Garcés Ramón, García Pérez, Gebhardt, Geringer de Oedenberg, Gierek, Gill, Glante, Gomes, Gottardi, Grabowska, Grau i Segú, Grech, Gröner, Groote, Gurmai, Guy-Quint, Hänsch, Harangozó, Hasse Ferreira, Hedh, Herczog, Honeyball, Howitt, Hughes, Hutchinson, Iotova, Jacobs, Jöns, Jørgensen, Juri, Kinnock, Kirilov, Koppa, Kósáné Kovács, Koterec, Krehl, Kreissl-Dörfler, Kuhne, Lambrinidis, Le Foll, Lefrançois, Leinen, Lévai, Lienemann, Locatelli, Lyubcheva, McAvan, McCarthy, Madeira, Maňka, Marini, Martin David, Martínez Martínez, Masip Hidalgo, Matsouka, Medina Ortega, Menéndez del Valle, Miguélez Ramos, Mikko, Moraes, Moreno Sánchez, Morgan, Myller, Napoletano, Neris, Obiols i Germà, Öger, Paasilinna, Paleckis, Panzeri, Paparizov, Patrie, Peillon, Pinior, Pleguezuelos Aguilar, Podimata, Poignant, Prets, Pribetich, Rapkay, Rasmussen, Riera Madurell, Rodust, Roth-Behrendt, Rothe, Rouček, Roure, Sacconi, Sakalas, Sánchez Presedo, dos Santos, Sârbu, Schaldemose, Schapira, Schulz, Segelström, Severin, Simpson, Siwiec, Skinner, Sornosa Martínez, Soulage, Stihler, Swoboda, Tabajdi, Tarand, Teychenné, Thomsen, łicău, Titley, Trautmann, Van Lancker, Vaugrenard, Vergnaud, Vigenin, Weiler, Westlund, Wiersma, Willmott, Yañez-Barnuevo García, Zani

UEN: Aylward, Bielan, Borghezio, Boso, Camre, Crowley, Foltyn-Kubicka, Krasts, Kristovskis, Kuc, Libicki, Masiel, Muscardini, Ó Neachtain, Pęk, Podkański, Robusti, Roszkowski, Speroni, Szymański, Tomaszewska, Vaidere, Wojciechowski Janusz, Zapałowski, Zīle

Verts/ALE: Aubert, Auken, Beer, Bennahmias, Breyer, Cohn-Bendit, Evans Jill, Flautre, Frassoni, Graefe zu Baringdorf, Hammerstein, Harms, Hassi, Horáček, Hudghton, Irujo Amezaga, Isler Béguin, Jonckheer, Kallenbach, Kusstatscher, Lagendijk, Lambert, Lichtenberger, Lipietz, Lucas, Onesta, Romeva i Rueda, Rühle, Schlyter, Schmidt Frithjof, Schroedter, Smith, Staes, Trüpel, Turmes, Voggenhuber, Ždanoka

The 57 who voted against were:

ALDE: Cavada, Cocilovo, Cornillet, Costa, Deprez, Fourtou, Gibault, Susta

IND/DEM: Wojciechowski Bernard

PPE-DE: Ashworth, Berend, Bowis, Březina, Brok, Bulzesc, Callanan, Casini, Chichester, De Veyrac, Ehler, Elles, Esteves, Gaľa, García-Margallo y Marfil, Garriga Polledo, Graça Moura, Grossetête, Guellec, Harbour, Heaton-Harris, Hieronymi, Hoppenstedt, Jarzembowski, Karim, Lamassoure, McMillan-Scott, Mathieu, Mavrommatis, Mayer, Mladenov, Morin, Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou, Papastamkos, Pinheiro, Purvis, Saïfi, Sanz Palacio, Schöpflin, Sudre, Toubon, Van Orden, Vatanen, Vlasto, von Wogau

PSE: Rosati

UEN: Basile, Rutowicz

The 171 abstainers were:

ALDE: Degutis

IND/DEM: Coûteaux, Louis, de Villiers

NI: Belohorská, Bobošíková, Hannan, Helmer, Mote

PPE-DE: Albertini, Andrikien÷, Angelakas, Atkins, Audy, Ayuso, Barsi-Pataky, Bartolozzi, Bauer, Beazley, Becsey, Belet, Bodu, Böge, Braghetto, Brejc, Burke, Bushill-Matthews, Busuttil, Casa, del Castillo Vera, Cederschiöld, ChiriŃă, Daul, De Blasio, Dehaene, Demetriou, Descamps, Deß, Deva, Díaz de Mera García Consuegra, Doorn, Dover, Doyle, Duka-Zólyomi, Dumitriu, Ebner, Fajmon, Ferber, Fernández Martín, Florenz, Fraga Estévez, Freitas, Friedrich, Funeriu, Gahler, Gál, Gaubert, Gauzès, Gawronski, Gewalt, Gklavakis, Glattfelder, Goepel, Gomolka, Gräßle, Hennicot-Schoepges, Higgins, Hökmark, Hudacký, Ibrisagic, Iturgaiz Angulo, Jałowiecki, Jeleva, Kamall, Karas, Kastler, Kirkhope, Klamt, Klaß, Koch, Konrad, Korhola, Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou, Landsbergis, De Lange, Langen, Lauk, Lechner, Lehne, Liese, Lulling, McGuinness, Mann Thomas, Manole, Marinescu, Marques, Martens, Matula, Mitchell, Nassauer, Nicholson, Niebler, Novak, Olajos, Oomen-Ruijten, İry, Pack, Parish, Peterle, Petre, Pieper, Pīks, Pirker, Pleštinská, Popa, Posdorf, Posselt, Queiró, Quisthoudt-Rowohl, Rack, Reul, Roithová, Rovsing, Rübig, Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, Sanzarello, Schierhuber, Schmitt, Schnellhardt, Schröder, Schwab, Seeber, Siitonen, Silva Peneda, Škottová, Sógor, Sommer, Spautz, Šťastný, Stauner, Stavreva, Stevenson, Stolojan, Sturdy, Szájer, Tannock, Trakatellis, Urutchev, Varvitsiotis, Veneto, Vidal-Quadras, Weber Manfred, Weisgerber, Wieland, Winkler, Wortmann-Kool, Záborská, Zappalà, Zatloukal, Zdravkova, Zieleniec, Zvěřina

PSE: Goebbels, Haug, Kindermann, Mann Erika, Walter

UEN: Chruszcz, Maldeikis

Verts/ALE: van Buitenen, Tıkés

After the vote the following MEPs wished it to be recorded that they were really in favour though recorded otherwise or not at all:

Alejo Vidal-Quadras, Vladimir Urutchev, Gérard Deprez, Juan Andrés Naranjo Escobar, José Manuel García-Margallo y Marfil, Dariusz Rosati, Pilar Ayuso, Salvador Garriga Polledo, Carmen Fraga Estévez, Antonio López-Istúriz White, Gerardo Galeote, Carlos José Iturgaiz Angulo, Eija-Riitta Korhola, Gianluca Susta, Florencio Luque Aguilar, José Ignacio Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, Zuzana Roithová

the following wished it to be recorded that they were really against though recorded otherwise or not at all:

Marie-Hélène Descamps, Jean-Paul Gauzès

and the following wished it to be recorded that they would have abstained though recorded otherwise or not at all:

Marianne Thyssen, Daniel Caspary

Sorry, Ms Thyssen, you may be my neighbour but you’ve lost any chance you might have had of my voting for you; I’m all the happier to support Annemie Neyts-Uyttebroeck with my vote come June 7th.

The British MEPs who voted against or abstained were all Tories or ex-UKIP.
The Irish MEPs who voted against were all Fine Gael.
The Belgians who voted abstained were CD&V, and the one who voted against is MR (though he now says this was a mistake).

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  1. I don’t do formal number proofs, but this one seems obvious: N^4 is N times itself four times, thus it is inherently divisible by itself and four, and adding four to it leaves the resulting number still divisible by four (and an even number, thus divisible by two), at least.

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