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The first was signing
off £32 Billion of additional cuts to public expenditure proposed by the
Coalition Government. Some people may be surprised to know that the vast
majority of Labour Party MPs, including Huddersfield MP Barry Sheerman,
followed the Conservative and Lib Dem MPs into the 'Aye' lobby to support these
huge cuts to services. We have no idea where these cuts will fall and neither do the MPs
who voted for them, but given what has already cut then services like Adult Social care must be under threat. What amazes me is that Labour MPs can simply
fall in line with cuts that could adversely affect some of the most vulnerable
people. Only 18 MPs voted against including the Green Party MP Caroline Lucas
and SNP and Plaid Cymru MPs
The Second vote was on whether or not Government should
support a £100 Billion replacement to the Trident missile programme. The debate was called by
Green, SNP and Plaid Cymru MPs and was an ideal opportunity to agree to stop
wasting public money on a useless expensive relic of the Cold War and instead
use that money to support local services and the NHS. Yet again the vast
majority of Labour MPs, including Barry Sheerman, voted against and the motion
was lost.
What is Labour for any more? If Labour MPs can't stand up for public services
or oppose nuclear weapons what makes them fundamentally any different from a
Lib Dem or even a Tory MP. Over the next few months we will see a lot of sound
and fury from Labour saying how terrible the Coalition Parties are, but in
reality they are little different. They will rely on amnesia from the
electorate of their reprehensible actions in government such as joining the
disastrous and destabilising US war in Iraq and people desperately wanting an
end to this right wing government. Surely we should have higher expectations of
our politicians than this?
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