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‘Does anyone know if our new Labour MP is voting for or against winter fuel payments for all OAPs’ appealed a message on a local Facebook group this week. Usually flooded with descriptions of missing cats, offers of scrap metal, a debate over the best primary school and whether the nearby motorway junction was open – up cropped a lesser-spotted political post. And yet within hours of the question being asked more than 30 other comments had waded in. Some bemoaning rising energy bills, others offering advice on how to check voting results alongside those furious at the cost to pensioners and th…