GLASGOW MPs have been branded hypocrites after failing to vote for postponing post office closures.

GLASGOW MPs have been branded hypocrites after failing to vote for postponing post office closures.

That's despite three of them publicly complaining about plans to shut 19 offices across the city as part of Royal Mail's controversial cost-cutting blueprint.

Not one city MP voted for a Tory motion at Westminster urging the Government to suspend the plan to shut 2500 post offices across the UK.

Nineteen Labour MPs did revolt against the Government and many others abstained and the Opposition motion was defeated by only 20 votes.

Just two weeks ago Glasgow South MP Tom Harris slammed PO bosses for bending their own rules after he compiled a dossier showing why the latest target in his area, Pollokshaws post office, was vital to the community.

Ann McKechin, MP for Glasgow North, campaigned to save the Kelvindale and Hyndland branches, while Glasgow North West MP John Robertson fought to keep four branches in his constituency open - in Crow Road, Kingsridge, Old Drumchapel and Temple.

Neither they nor any of the other three Glasgow MPs who could have voted - Ian Davidson, David Marshall and Mohammad Sarwar - backed the bid to halt the closures.

City SNP MSPs Sandra White, Bob Doris and Bill Kidd said they should "hang their heads in shame".

Ms White said: "I cannot believe the sheer brass neck of Labour, who on the one hand have been going around telling communities they have saved their post offices and on the other have been voting to close them.

"When you consider that no Scottish Labour MP voted against these closures you have to ask the question just what and who are they representing?"

Mr Doris said: "Some Labour politicians callously mislead their constituents by pretending to campaign against post office closures, but when it comes to the crunch they vote the other way."

Mr Kidd said: "I am disgusted by the behaviour of these Labour MPs. Not one of them had the guts to do the right thing and vote for the motion which would have ensured that families, pensioners and others would not lose vital local services.

"They should hang their heads in shame. They have treated the people of Glasgow with disdain."

However, Ms McKechin defended the decision not to support the Tory position.

She said: "The motion was to postpone the closures - in Glasgow they have already shut so this would have had no effect."

Mr Robertson could not have voted as he was in hospital for a minor operation.