Letter to Editor: Is our new Labour MP Chris Vince just “continuity Halfon”?
Your Say / Wed 24th Jul 2024 at 09:15am
Dear Editor,
HARLOW’S new Labour MP Chris Vince has voted in favour of retaining the two-child limit on child tax credits, and in doing so he has demonstrated that on this issue he could be described as the “continuity Halfon”.
For both the former Conservative MP for Harlow and the new Labour MP for this constituency voted to further impoverish hundreds of thousands of families. Hundreds of families in Harlow affected by this regulation might have expected someone standing under the “Labour” label to act in their interests, but no, it was not to be.
Mr Vince has failed his first moral test as a Member of Parliament.
Meanwhile, seven Labour MPs with a moral compass have been suspended by the Parliamentary Labour Party for daring to vote in favour of immediately alleviating the poverty of 422,000 families in this country. The Starmer leadership of the Labour Party and its loyal servants like Chris Vince insult the principles of the founders of the Labour Party.
Yours sincerely
John Wake
Ex-Member, Harlow Constituency Labour Party
David Forman
2024-07-24 09:40:25
Chris Vince put party and career before the needs of vulnerable children. I thank the seven Labour Party MPs who had a conscience in voting to try to rid this country of a despicable Tory policy.
David Forman
2024-07-24 09:44:58
A section from a House of Commons research paper on this topic in 2024 said: "The Work and Pensions Committee has published two reports on the two-child limit – in January 2019 and November 2019. In its second report, the Committee recommended scrapping the two-child limit, stating that the policy “not only fails to achieve the Government’s own objectives but has evident, unintended consequences that no Government should be willing to accept.” The Committee concluded that the policy was based on assumptions that “simply do not hold true”, and on a distinction between families that are in work and those in receipt of benefits that is “crude and unrealistic”. See https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-9301/
Nostradamus
2024-07-24 10:41:04
The population is falling not enough children being born to support an elderly population. The alternatives are to raise the retirement age even further or import labour from around the world ( the Conservatives strategies). Lifting the cap and building 10 new ultra green towns as hubs for new green industries with good quality affordable social rents Council housing, echos the highly successful new town building programme that built Harlow. Chris Vince anf the labour government need to remember this.
Brian Aston
2024-07-24 11:16:21
Perhaps we need YourHarlow to ask Mr Vince if he truly voted with his conscience, believing that the two child cap is moral and fair, or whether he was just following the 3 line whip from the party leadership. Remember it is early days, he is still learning the ropes as a newbie in parliament.
Guy Flegman
2024-07-24 11:34:55
Did not mr Starmer say “ country first and party second “. You are very restricted on what you can do when the cupboard is bare.
Andrew S.
2024-07-24 12:04:17
Is our new Labour MP Chris Vince just “continuity Halfon”? Let’s hope so! I didn’t vote for him but he seems good so far
clare
2024-07-24 12:20:18
they are out of touch with normal people ive got 5 kids and none of there dads pay anything so how am i suposed to feed them and also buy necessities like nappies or cigarettes?
David Forman
2024-07-24 12:32:40
A dreadful consequence of the two child benefit cap was exposed by Labour MP Stella Creasey in parliament yesterday. She revealed: "The Minister will have heard the concern across the House about the Conservatives’ two-child cap on benefits. Because it exists, in the past year alone 3,000 women have had to fill in a form to admit to the Department for Work and Pensions that they have been raped and had a child that was non-consensual. That is more than the number of rape convictions under the last Government." See Hansards report just after 6.50pm at https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2024-07-23/debates/C133D2F0-7130-4DE8-BA4D-6E04AD0F5703/ImmigrationAndHomeAffairs#main-content
gary roberts
2024-07-24 12:34:01
"I will tell you.......and you WILL listen" [Neil Kinnock circa 1985] How did that work out? It achieved nothing except headlines for the right wing press to hammer him with. So now Starmer is doing the same slogan with seven fewer MP's and a membership in revolve come the conference. And of course he insulted proper socialists by suggesting he was one. The idea that a Labour party leader could choose the triple lock over child poverty just makes me angry and says that I made the correct decision to vote Green on 4th July. Hopefully Angela Rayner will start the race to relieve him of his duties so he can join his Conservative mates across the isle. Change will hopefully mean he will be gone this time next year!
View from Afar
2024-07-24 14:03:52
I think the majority of MPs whatever party they represent put themselves first
gary roberts
2024-07-24 17:12:18
It is clear to me that my political "hero'" did more in six years with little or no money than any other UK government. It was led by a man of few words but many actions to improve the lives for children and everyone else after the war. Starmer couldn't lick his boots. Child poverty is growing and apparently getting worse and Starmer sits on his hands: A disgrace.
Pedro
2024-07-24 20:40:06
If you can't feed em don't breed em
Colleen Morrison
2024-07-28 01:26:05
I would like to address another question to Chris Vince MP. Ms Reeves, the Chancellor, has declared on her official website that during the c 3 months between 1 March 2024 and 29 May 2024, that she accepted c £422,000 worth of donations and gifts, on top of her c £300,000 annual parliamentary expense allowance. Most of this sum was made up of donations of cash. The Chancellor also accepted gifts, which included a designer handbag and cosmetics valued at £1,250, numerous tickets for Wimbledon, tickets for The National Theatre and various other theatres, Leisure accommodation, a number of meals, including one costing over £800 and tickets for the first and last nights of the Proms. If the Chancellor of the Exchequer were to continue accepting gifts and donations of such extraordinarily high value, she could presumably receive c £2 million in such gifts and donations in this financial year. I am shocked that the Chancellor would accept such substantial sums and benefits: has the Chancellor lost control of her budget and judgement? Ms Reeves stated in a recent interview that she struggled to live on her Shadow Chancellor's salary of c £90,000 pa, however, her recent salary increase to c £163,000 presumably relieved this issue. Does the Chancellor foresee herself continuing to accept items of such huge value?
Fact or Fiction
2024-08-02 15:29:00
Clare - is 5 kids, various dad's who shirk their responsibilities and cigarettes being a necessity, normal? Also noting Pedro's comment...
Dan Long
2024-08-06 14:46:50
He is not my MP. That's for sure.
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