Two Labour MPs in came under attack from the Plaid Cymru at the last parliament over their voting records.
Llanelli and Anglesey candidates Nia Griffith and Albert Owen were criticised by Plaid on such issues as the post office closures and bingo taxation.

Ms Griffith claimed that Labour had tried to keep many post offices open with additional funding.

Plaid claimed: "many Welsh Labour MPs have misled their constituents over important local issues, from post office closures to high levels of bingo taxation, by saying one thing to their constituents and voting the opposite way in Westminster".

Plaid's parliamentary leader Elfyn Llwyd added: "MPs are elected to listen to their constituents and represent their needs in Westminster.

It was claimed that Ms Griffith had "voted against an opposition amendment halting the closures" of post offices and claimed the two had continued "toeing the whips' line" on other issues.

He said neither were with "the rebels" over what he called the "desperately unfair" bingo tax in last year's Budget.

The duty was initially raised from 15% to 22%, but was later cut by the chancellor to 20%.

"How then is it acceptable for the last MPs for Llanelli and Ynys Mon, Labour's Nia Griffith and Albert Owen for example, to claim to oppose the closure of post offices, yet their records prove otherwise?"


Ms Griffith commented on the post office issue: "What we in Labour have done is put in funding so that whereas the market place would have reduced the number from 14,000 to 4,000 we put up funding to keep 11,500 open.

"There is no way I could ever have supported a Tory motion which did not promise any additional funding, which was simply an opposition day motion with no real meaning."

She suggested that post offices had closed because people had retired, and that the government had committed significant funding to keep them open.

On bingo tax, she claimed that she had lobbied the Treasury minister, there had been negotiations with the Bingo Association. The original tax increase from 15 percent to 22 percent had since been reduced to 20 percent.

"In the real world you have to negotiate and make compromises," she added.

On the Plaid attack, she called it negative abuse and said: "I quite frankly think it's very sad they haven't got any positive policies they could put forward."