Thursday 15 August 2024

Pensioner's Revolting

With a £22bn black hole left courtesy of the Conservative Party, Labour have been plotting ways to plug the gap and one of them was to start means testing the Winter fuel payments to pensioners, worth between £100 and £300 to help them pay their fuel bills .
The Labour Government has said this will save the economy £1.4bn as only those on Pension Credits will receive it rather than everyone over 67 and since it was announced my Facebook has been flooded with pensioners complaining about how they are now going to 'freeze to death'.  
State pension has gone up by 6.7% in 2024, 10.1% in 2023 and 3.1% in 2022 so the pensioners, who largely vote Conservative, have done rather well when wages have been squeezed elsewhere.
I assume by the outcry over the new Government trying to make up the shortfall left by the previous Government, all those pensioners also went on Facebook rants over the decade of austerity, the slashing of public services, the economic suicide of Brexit, disability benefits cut, the two-child benefit cap, the food banks, impoverished children, the Liz Truss inspired cost-of-living crisis, freezing working-age benefits and the tripling of student tuition fees.
Obviously they must not have continued voting for the Conservatives in protest and posted things on Facebook about the hardship of the Conservative government on society then as well. Mustn't they?

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