Ot government cuts

[frogmiller]

She was on itv news last night. Sad affair when the ones voted to give the people's a voice are keeping quiet just to fit in.

Very sad indeed.

I've just watched them read out the results. Some Labour MPs cheered

The Labour Party said themselves in a report that it could cost the lives of 4000 elderly. So in effect they'd cheered that as if it's a great victory.

[UlleyMiller]

Very sad indeed.

I've just watched them read out the results. Some Labour MPs cheered

The Labour Party said themselves in a report that it could cost the lives of 4000 elderly. So in effect they'd cheered that as if it's a great victory.

I'd hope they're cheering the degree of unity they found to get a vote through, but it's massively distasteful given what it's about.

They've got the optics of this very wrong from the start. The pension triple lock (*******s name, but anyway) has thankfully meant that pensioners are better off in real terms by about £800 per annum against what a standard uplift would have given them since the triple lock was introduced (and rising slightly more next year because of one of the levers), and that needed to be front and centre of their rhetoric around this.

They also failed by allowing this to become a standalone point and not as part of a well-articulated series of changes.

First real test of the government and they've messed up pretty badly, whilst targeting what should have been a far easier sell if done correctly.