Where was MP in vital debate?

Dear Editor,

Here we go again. I watched the debate on Mhairi Black’s bill on benefit claimant sanctions.

MPs on the opposition side, SNP and Labour, as well as a handful of Tories, gave terrible examples of hardship and brutality at the hands of the present government as they run the Department for Work and Pensions.

They told us what we know: that people are suffering badly.

At the end commentators told us that the bill was“talked out” and has no chance of going through.

So where was our MP Philip Boswell? Again he was nowhere to be seen.

The Tory government got away with their heartless policies and the“stronger voice for Scotland” was once again silent, as though Coatbridge has no problems.

Our former MP Tom Clarke was a man widely admired for campaigning on behalf of the disabled.

I am not alone in being shocked at Boswell’s lack of interest in the most vulnerable.

If the SNP carry on putting up with this behaviour voters will reach the conclusion I did a long time ago: that their obsession with independence is all that matters.

The fact that working-class people are suffering from the Tory government they helped to elect is of no interest to them.

What did the people of Coatbridge do to deserve this? Have the nationalists no shame when we see that they planted Phil Boswell on a lot of families who need help as he arrogantly ignores us?