Sir - There were two votes in the House of Commons in January that received less media attention than they deserved. The first was signing off £32 Billion of additional cuts to public expenditure proposed by the Coalition Government. Some people may be surprised to know that the vast majority of Labour Party MPs followed the Conservative and Lib Dem MPs into the 'Aye' lobby to support these huge cuts to services.

We have no idea where these cuts will fall and neither do the MPs who voted for them. What amazes me is that Labour MPs can simply fall in line with cuts that could adversely affect some of the most vulnerable people. Only 18 MPs voted against, including the Green Party MP Caroline Lucas and SNP and Plaid Cymru MPs

The second vote was on whether or not Government should support a £100 Billion replacement to the Trident missile programme. The debate was called by Green, SNP and Plaid Cymru MPs and was an ideal opportunity to agree to stop wasting public money on a useless expensive relic of the Cold War and instead use that money to support local services and the NHS. Yet again the vast majority of Labour MPs voted for the Trident replacement programme and against the motion to scrap it, which was lost.

What is Labour for any more? If Labour MPs can't stand up for public services or oppose nuclear weapons what makes them fundamentally any different from a Lib Dem or a Tory MP?

Over the next few months we will see a lot of sound and fury from Labour saying how terrible the Coalition Parties are, but in reality they are little different.

Peter Nielsen

Worcester