Strathkelvin and Bearsden MSP Rona Mackay has hit out at "weak" Anas Sarwar and Scottish Labour for choosing to bow down to their Westminster bosses instead of standing up for vulnerable pensioners.
The majority of Labour MSPs this week voted against a motion at the Scottish Parliament calling for the UK government to reinstate the Winter Fuel Payment - confirming their support to remove the vital payment to 880,000 Scottish pensioners.
SNP MSPs across Scotland voted on Tuesday, October 8 in Holyrood to demand that the Labour UK government urgently reinstate the Winter Fuel Payment this winter.
Rona said: "Anas Sarwar and Labour in Scotland made their choice - it is more important for them to lie down for Sir Keir Starmer than stand up for vulnerable pensioners in my constituency and across the country.
"This shameful move shows just how weak Anas Sarwar is - the people of Scotland will see right through him and his desperate attempts to justify cruel cuts being made by Labour in Westminster.
"All Labour in Scotland offer is to rubber stamp damaging decisions made in Westminster - only the SNP is focused on standing up for the people of Strathkelvin and Bearsden and supporting those who need it most."
MSPs voted 99-14 for the motion put forward by First Minister John Swinney following a debate as part of Challenge Poverty Week.
After the vote, Mr Swinney said: “Scotland’s Parliament has spoken, and I repeat my call for the UK Government to reverse its damaging decision to restrict entitlement to Winter Fuel Payments for pensioners.”
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