Government rethink re winter fuel payments

[Highway Man]

Said on the news that starmer is not altering or reining back on this winter fuel legislation

Basically any one who don’t like it can go and do one

He needs the money for setting up task forces and turbo charging policies

Whilst sending billions in foreign aid to help other countries pensioners, just not ours!!!!!

 

[aveatry]

Looks like Starmer is running scared of Farage

Keir Starmer announces U-turn on winter fuel payment cuts

The move follows political pressure in recent weeks after Labour losses at England's local elections.

www.bbc.co.uk

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[Notch7]

Whilst sending billions in foreign aid to help other countries pensioners, just not ours!!!!!

you don’t understand what foreign aid is, it’s not the zero sum game you think

try googling soft power.

 

[Highway Man]

you don’t understand what foreign aid is, it’s not the zero sum game you think

try googling soft power.

I understand fully what foreign aid is. It is you that is misunderstanding. Do you think it is free money? No need to promote our culture elsewhere. Charity begins at home.

 

[blup]

I understand fully what foreign aid is. It is you that is misunderstanding. Do you think it is free money? No need to promote our culture elsewhere. Charity begins at home.

More like tax cuts for the wealthy begin at home, a few billion won’t make a jot of difference. Someone has to train (and pay to train) tne foreign doctors, nurses and care workers that come over to work in the nhs and social care

 

[Highway Man]

More like tax cuts for the wealthy begin at home, a few billion won’t make a jot of difference. Someone has to train (and pay to train) tne foreign doctors, nurses and care workers that come over to work in the nhs and social care

Tell our pensioners that. A few billion wont make a jot of difference. Funny how you lefties like helping foreigners at the expense of our own.

 

[Highway Man]

1.4 billion saved by cutting the winter fuel allowance, you say a few billion doesnt make a jot of a difference. So Starmer did it out of spite then?

 

[blup]

1.4 billion saved by cutting the winter fuel allowance, you say a few billion doesnt make a jot of a difference. So Starmer did it out of spite then?

It all adds up if you’re the chancellor

 

[Murdochcat]

1.4 billion saved by cutting the winter fuel allowance, you say a few billion doesnt make a jot of a difference. So Starmer did it out of spite then?

Ha ha ha.

Once countless pensioners who used to get the WFP claim for benefits they previously didn’t I suspect there won’t be a saving AT ALL and of course it will me more civil servants needed to manage it

What they should have done is make the WFP declareable on tax returns as income

 

[Murdochcat]

It all adds up if you’re the chancellor

I don’t think she knows how to add up

 

[blup]

I don’t think she knows how to add up

She does and she is clearly treating everything in terms of its cost in the way Gordon used to.

 

[Vinty]

Looks like Starmer is running scared of Farage

Keir Starmer announces U-turn on winter fuel payment cuts

The move follows political pressure in recent weeks after Labour losses at England's local elections.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Maybe a good thing.
He needs to get real and see the world as it is and not how he would like it to be.

 

[aveatry]

The U turn is too late as the damage has already been done, people will remember when it comes to the next election. They planned it before they were elected and hoped that it will be forgotten by the next election - it wont.
They want to reduce the voting age because they think it will benefit them but I see it backfiring on them as all of those 16 year olds are all being told by grandma how Labour took away their heating over the winter.

 

[Highway Man]

The U turn is too late as the damage has already been done, people will remember when it comes to the next election. They planned it before they were elected and hoped that it will be forgotten by the next election - it wont.
They want to reduce the voting age because they think it will benefit them but I see it backfiring on them as all of those 16 year olds are all being told by grandma how Labour took away their heating over the winter.

Exactly

 

[MNW67]

1.4 billion saved by cutting the winter fuel allowance, you say a few billion doesnt make a jot of a difference. So Starmer did it out of spite then?

He wanted to look like he was serious about reducing spending. Pretty much everyone agrees that the WFP is a bad policy. He got praise from the more principled right wingers for making the decision. But doing the right thing isn't always good politics. And it was a relatively small saving. So, all round a massive own goal.