Rachael Maskell says its with her conscience that she cannot vote for the govts measures (to scrap the universal winter fuel allowance for pensioners)

No moral high ground for cowardice and enabling the bill to pass!

Abstaining is sitting on the fence, you are either for or against something.

Only one Labour MP actually voted against it, and it wasn't her. Abstainers are just cowards, frightened of losing the whip.

Abstaining is as bad as voting for the government it shows it’s Party before Pensioners. And political career before Pensioners

If she has abstained then that is an act of cowardice and her words just empty rhetoric.

So abstained. Jon Trickett was the only Labour MP to vote against apparently.

Maskell has no conscience - words have no value - only voting AGAINST makes a difference.

When you join a neoliberal party you know full well that they will be working for the rich and not for the poor. These theatrical performances won’t wash any longer.

But she still took the cowards way out & abstained! Thats just as bad as voting for her govt imo

There no joined up thinking, NHS will be hit as people cannot go back to an unheated home.