Quote Originally Posted by ramAnag View Post
Okay Tricky…I’ve not been on here for several days and haven’t been in the country or had access to what’s going on since last Thursday but it was a simple observation…the winter fuel allowance, though very welcome, should not really be targeted at people like me…so you won’t find me complaining.
Such ‘benefits’, for want of a better word, need, in my opinion, to be properly means tested so that the money is available to those most in need.
As a matter of fact, in the village I live in, where average house prices are probably in excess of £650k, there are a lot of people of pensionable age and they actually don’t NEED the winter fuel allowance. It was very welcome, particularly when oil was so horrendously expensive a couple of winters ago, but compared with those experiencing genuine hardship we don’t NEED it.
That is my one and only point. I’m not knowledgeable enough about all the other complexities to comment, but if relatively well off pensioners have to go without their winter fuel payment that’s not the end of the world imo, providing the money saved is targeted properly.
Of course people like you will moan endlessly, as you have done ever since July 5th trying to make immediate political capital, but at the end of the day if, as you say, the ‘kitty is empty’…whose fault is that?
the kitty is empty............ what goes around comes around. Its probably the first time a Labour gov has walked into this, its ususlly them leaving a smashed piggy bank on the floor.
COVID being your main answer. Yes Tories guilty of wasting buckets loads on it, but also Labour for screaming for lock downs, that as proven since. Wouldn't have made a blind bit of difference to the end result. I know that upsets you, but the price of those lock downs, as I said at the time, would cripple the economy.

My point is that your hero, is a pathetic liar. He twists and turns and never gives a straight answer.
His answer is to hit every pensioner not on credit, who are not as well off as you, but barely above the bread line. Peoples party my ass.
Taxes are next my friend, thats a dead cert.
So all the moaning and promises are flying out the window fast and we are weeks in. They had access to the OBR and think we are all too stupid to swallow their propaganda.

Here let this refresh your memory, whilst you relax.

https://order-order.com/2024/07/30/f...-in-the-world/