That’s five Labour MPs who backed retaining a benefit for people who absolutely don’t need it. Well done boys. Good process. 
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I’m finding it exasperating how fucking stupid the left is being, including large swathes of the Labour Party, over the Winter Fuel Payments.
They seem to have fallen into the trap of thinking that all benefits are good and any benefit cut is a betrayal of socialist principles.
Not when it’s funnelling money to people who don’t need it.
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I think it’s worth noting that the principle is very different from the implementation. I think only 66% of eligible people were claiming pension credit. In some cases, some people are ineligible to do so, but are living in situations where heating costs can be really high. It’s not hard to see how this could tip some over the edge into having to choose between food and heating.
You never had Conservative MPs abstain.
Ever.
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They have a system of pairing off, so that if an MP has a prior engagement then they will be allowed to miss a vote if an opposition MP is also missing.
Given the size of Labour’s majority, it is possibly difficult to find pairs, but also less necessary.
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They are gutless self preserving twats also.
They defined it.
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Hmmm.
Remember the 70’s when this mob allowed the unions to run the country and bring it to it’s knees.
They’re ALL cunts, Tories and Labour
Sigh
Nail on head.
It’s got boring very quickly regardless of how much truth there is in it. Just shut the fuck up and do what you were elected to do.
Maybe stick your hand down the back of the couch like the Tories did to find the 70 odd billion to fund the furlough scheme.
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Almost as lame as the default “But the Tories” excuses?
Disgusting cowardice.
Kim Johnson (@KimJohnsonMP) posted at 4:37 pm on Tue, Sept 10, 2024:
Please see my statement on today’s Winter Fuel Payment vote 
https://twitter.com/KimJohnsonMP/status/1833515108565188726/photo/1
(x.com)
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Setting aside the question of the validity of the rest of your post, if they were MPs then, how old must they be now?
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Golly gosh Dane. You aren’t even trying to hide your bias now.
Whereas for the Tories it was one thousand and twenty-five strikes and you’re out; For Labour it’s one.
You truly are a classic. You make @klopptimist seem rational.
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I dont remember the 70’s, plus Iived in Australia.
But fair play to the tories, they didnt need the unions, they brought the country to its knees all on their own.
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I’m the only bastion of sanity in this mad world. The crazed left has taken over the asylum now, god (or whatever passes for one) help us.
The key difference is that at least the Conservatives are not closet Marxists.
Neither are this government if they’re taking on a tory policy of removing the WFP.
But the Mail says…