Post Office closures - See how your Labour MP voted.

The Conservative motion to suspend the Post Office closure program was beaten by 288 to 268 votes on Wednesday. Over 90 Labour MPs and seven Cabinet Ministers campaigned in their local constituencies to keep their Post Offices open. Nineteen of those Labour MPs disobeyed the whip and voted for the Conservative motion. Of course this means that at least seventy one of those Labour MPs campaigning to keep Post Offices open, voted to continue with the Post Office closure program.

Did your Labour MP tell you they were pulling out all the stops to keep your Post Office open? To find out if they were full of crap, click HERE.

Note: If you want to know the real reason why Gordon Brown must shut down our Post Offices click HERE. (Hat Tip: Jeremy Jacobs for pointing this out in a comment).

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Post Office closures - MPs are voting now.

MPs have just gone to division to vote on the Conservative's motion to suspend Post Office closures. The vote follows and Opposition Day debate in the House of Commons. It was amazing to see Business Secretary John Hutton defend the indefensible in the latter stages of the debate. You could tell his heart was not in it - probably because he is aware that he was more than likely committing electoral suicide.

The result follows shortly.

Votes for a suspension to the closures = 268

Votes against = 288

Can you believe it? The public are betrayed once again by their Labour MPs.

Note: I will of course publish a full list of those Labour MPs who voted for the closure program to go ahead. 90 Labour MPs, seven of whom are in the Cabinet, had been campaigning against the post office closures. What a bunch of stinking hypocrites.

Post Office closures - How will Labour MPs vote?

Don't miss tomorrow's Opposition Day debate in the House of Commons, it's going to be a beauty. The Conservatives are to call for a vote to suspend Post Office closures (they believe that the time given for people to complain is too short). This vote will be a huge embarrassment for Gordon Brown and Labour MPs. Many of those Labour MPs have campaigned to keep their local Post Offices open, and now they must put their money where their mouths are and vote against the closures. What to do? - Vote against Gordon Brown and the Cabinet who are pushing for the closures, or face the wrath of their constituents? Oh what joy!

From the Daily Telegraph: 20 Government ministers - including seven members of the Cabinet, were battling to save their local post offices prompting accusations of "rank hypocrisy".

The Telegraph claims that Labour Party insiders say that they relaxed about the vote because even though it may embarrass the government - it is not legally binding. I think they are trying to say "So what?". I wonder how low the Labour party can sink. First they break their manifesto promise to give us a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty, and now they are campaigning for the Post Offices that THEY are closing to stay open. I swear most of these Labour MPs have more faces than Big Ben (I know it's not called Big Ben).

In case you are interested, here is a list of Labour Ministers who have campaigned to keep THEIR local Post Office open:

Geoff Hoon, Chief Whip
Paul Murphy, Welsh Secretary
Andy Burnham, Culture Secretary
Tessa Jowell, Olympics Minister
Jack Straw, Justice Secretary
Jacqui Smith, Home Secretary
John Denham, Innovation, Universities and Skills Secretary
Kitty Ussher, Treasury Minister
Kim Howells, Foreign Office Minister
David Lammy, Innovation, Universities and Skills Minister
Jim Knight, Children, Schools and Families Minister:
Joan Ruddock, pictured, Environment, Fisheries and Rural Affairs Minister
Gillian Merron, International Development Minister
Parmjit Dhanda, Communities and Local Government Minister
Anne Keen, Health Minister
Diana Johnson, Whip
Sadiq Khan, Whip
Bob Blizzard, Whip
Wayne David, Whip
Sarah McCarthy, Whip's office

Don't forget, seven of these wonderful people are members of the cabinet that took the decision to close our Post Offices.