I was shocked and disgusted on Wednesday to find out about our local MP’s outrageous attack on local families in Elmet and Rothwell. Alec Shelbrooke obviously has far too much time on his hands – probably because of his lack of activity to help people in this constituency – as he’s found time to dream up a ludicrous scheme to give the poorest families a ‘Welfare Benefit Card’ to stop them frittering away what little money they receive on ‘non-essentials’.
I was so outraged by this that I’ve written my first article for the national LabourList website. You can read the article: ‘My local MP and his vicious attack on welfare claimants’ here.
