Well she has got form for it hasn’t she, having previously decided not to turn up for a vote on the Gaza ceasefire. Well this time she’s left Tamworth pensioners in the cold, literally. Having decided to save face and stay away from the vote on the winter fuel payment in parliament this afternoon, it remains to be seen what excuse she uses for not being there. She was in good company with 52 of her Labour colleagues deciding not to catch the hot potato either. Unlike the last time, where she had been voting earlier that same day, she appears to have completely kept away this time.
Naturally we can draw two conclusions on this, one that she didn’t dare to vote against her party and was told to stay away (after all their majority means they get anything they want through now) or two she didn’t want to show her true cold hearted colours to the pensioners of Tamworth by voting with them. So what to do? Stay away that’s what. Plausible deniability, she was probably having her nails done.
As we can see above, Edwards believes her government are ‘for the people’, but that doesn’t sit well with today’s vote which leaves many thousands of pensioners just short of getting the help they need. Of course a lot of pensioners generally vote Tory, and Labour know it. Those that turned their backs on the Tory party for fly by night con merchants like Reform are probably wishing they hadn’t now. You got what you voted for, and as Starmer said “Its going to be painful“. So come the budget, be prepared to bend over and take some more from the socialists who no doubt will piss the money they ‘save’, away on some hair brained scheme, such as, ooh, renationalising the railways maybe, much like our local labour party are in reopening Marmion House.
Take heart though, Sarah’s going to be cosy at home in Moseley. She and many other politicians forget that one day they will be pensioners too. And whilst you don’t get prizes for reaching retirement, you at least deserve a little warm comfort in your old age from a government you’ve worked for all of your life, surely?
