Keir Starmer - and his miserable government

im lucky i know that my MP didnt vote as he is the speaker

they are going to be means testing it only those eligable for pension credit will get it

and today was announced that pensions will go up by £360 in april due to the triple lock

i can see in the budget will be an increase in the pension credit threshhold meaning more pensioners will get it

(10-09-2024 16:19 )HannahsPet Wrote:  they are going to be means testing it only those eligable for pension credit will get it

and today was announced that pensions will go up by £360 in april due to the triple lock

i can see in the budget will be an increase in the pension credit threshhold meaning more pensioners will get it

Who ever the bright spark was who thought that tinkering with the winter payments was a clever idea need his/hers P45.The amount saved is a drop in the ocean compares to the tsunami they have created.When re election time comes around and it will.voters will remember.

It may be unfashionable but you’ve got to remember most (not all ) pensioners tend to vote Tory (not that that’s a reason to take the Winter fuel allowance off them) but maybe they think people will forget in the long run people have short memories when it suits them.

There were 53 Labour MP's who chose to abstain. And only 1 Labour MP who voted against it.

Well done to the Normanton and Hemsworth MP Jon Trickett. The only one to have any balls.

(10-09-2024 18:22 )Charlemagne Wrote:  There were 53 Labour MP's who chose to abstain. And only 1 Labour MP who voted against it.

Well done to the Normanton and Hemsworth MP Jon Trickett. The only one to have any balls.

Yes well done he showed balls, but of the other 52 Labour mps some of them will have a fanny.

BBC News - National debt set to treble over next 50 years, says OBR - BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cewlwkg82ggo

A sobering reminder of where we are as a country. A crippled social system and now this bleak forecast.

The NHS isn't the only disastrously failing part of the system. Education, social care, benefits, prisons, courts and so much else in a parlous state of disrepair and failure.
Talk of reform to our NHS is all very fine. But past experience of health professionals shows that with reform comes an expectation of staff to do more and more with less and less time, resource and money. This situation will no doubt be duplicated across the public sector that is already beyond breaking point of capacity. There are going to be more and more horrendously difficult decisions to be made by governments of all persuasions in the years to come. Partly in response to climate change, partly due to an ageing population and partly down to a burden on the state that is mighty tough to sustain if not impossible. Good luck to whichever suckers take on the job of government. It looks a forlorn task to me.

Anyone who didn't see this coming needs a good slap.

https://www.itv.com/news/meridian/2024-0...of-release

BBC: Our winter fuel payment goes into the holiday kitty

71% of disabled pensioners will lose the winter fuel payment The labour government quietly slipped out the announcement last night

https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/seven-out-of-...-payments/