UK pensioner’s winter fuel update

You may remember that the incoming UK Labour goverment’s very first fiscal decision was to cut the winter fuel payment to pensioners. You may also remember certain posters such as Ghost of a Duke defending the policy decision by claiming it had been means tested via the arbitary selection of wider benefit claimants being entitled. But this is NOT means teasing!
Well it hadn’t been means tested and here is a Holy Guardian article (for lefty balance) revealing that the Goverment had not means tested it…

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/sep/12/no-winter-fuel-payments-impact-assessment-was-carried-out-no-10-admits

Secondly you may remember that I claimed that tens of thousands of pensioners will be plunged into life threatening poverty. Well the Labour Goverment have finally released a report on the impact and guess what …

Government analysis of the impact of its decision to restrict the payment was published by the House of Commons Work and Pensions Committee on Tuesday.

A letter to the committee from work and pensions secretary Liz Kendall said: “The latest modelling shows that compared to the numbers that would have been in poverty without this policy, it is estimated that in each year in question there will be an additional 50,000 pensioners in relative poverty after housing costs in 2024-25, 2025-26 and 2027-28, instead.

“The modelling also shows that an additional 100,000 pensioners are estimated to be in relative poverty after housing costs in 2026-27, 2028-29 and 2029-30.

“For all other measures of poverty, it is estimated that there will be an additional 50,000 pensioners in poverty each year from 2024-25 to 2029-30.”

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/winter-fuel-payments-pensioners-poverty-dwp-b2649951.html

Pensioners being put into poverty
Farmers being put out of business
Taxes up to the highest levels for 40 years
Borrowing rules changed and borrowing increased
Inflation rising again after being brought under control
Grow predictions been brought down
Defence spending cut
Above inflation pay hikes for public sector (union rewards)
Illegal immigration numbers up
Free speech being restricted
Cover up of information of terror related murders of children
Billions and billions committed to net zero madness
Goverment debt bonds pressure
Reverend Starmer now more unpopular than Liz Truss

4 months in … jeez.

@divegeester said
You may remember that the incoming UK Labour goverment’s very first fiscal decision was to cut the winter fuel payment to pensioners.

@divegeester said
Farmers being put out of business

@spruce112358 said
Inefficient freeloaders expecting bailouts. Disgusting! 😆

@divegeester said
Western farming is super efficient 🤷‍♂️

YouTube

@spruce112358 said
Western agriculture is chemical based and has SERIOUS problems!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4R7mX6pChSA

@divegeester

Whether you vote Blue Clown, Red Clown, Yellow Clown, Green Clown, Light Blue Clown, Yorkshire Clown, Scottish or Welsh Clown, you inevitably get a clown and it may not even be the clown you voted for!

@Ragwort said
@divegeester

Whether you vote Blue Clown, Red Clown, Yellow Clown, Green Clown, Light Blue Clown, Yorkshire Clown, Scottish or Welsh Clown, you inevitably get a clown and it may not even be the clown you voted for!

@divegeester said
Western farming is super efficient 🤷‍♂️

@A-Unique-Nickname said
Have you even ever been on a farm? 😂

@Ragwort said
@divegeester

Whether you vote Blue Clown, Red Clown, Yellow Clown, Green Clown, Light Blue Clown, Yorkshire Clown, Scottish or Welsh Clown, you inevitably get a clown and it may not even be the clown you voted for!

@divegeester said
I’m all for stopping or reducing chemicals in farming and happy to pay the increased costs of food as a result. Are you? Btw this is irrelevant to what’s happening in the UK.

Any thoughts on the OP or is there something else you would prefer to talk about?

@spruce112358 said
You brought up farmers going out of business, right after the OP complaining about reduced payments to pensioners.

So if it was irrelevant, why bring it up? 😆

@divegeester said
You don’t value farmers, I do.

What would you like to talk about now 😆