Posted on 08/28/2024 9:07:38 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
Sir Keir Starmer has confirmed pensioners’ worst fears. There will be no U-turn on his decision to remove the winter fuel payment.
He has said it is a choice he “has to make”, a decision he “didn’t want” to make. But this cannot be true. Be under no illusions, this is a cold, hard political calculation.
Sir Keir is trying to dress up his political choices as “difficult decisions”, sheepishly blaming everyone but himself. He is trying to take the 10 million pensioners who will lose their annual payment for fools.
Removing the winter fuel payment is something he cannot pin on the previous administration, no matter how much he bleats.
There is a clear trade-off afoot. Even Inspector Clouseau could spot Starmer’s transparent strategy. Trade unions, who donate millions to the Labour Party every year, are being given billions in inflation-busting, no-strings attached pay rises whilst vulnerable pensioners are being left out in the cold.
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That should be “herr” starmer.
Has the King no say-so in government there?...........
is there a functioning pair of b4lls in that country?
theoretically he can refuse to sign legislation, but no monarch ever has
He does what he’s told.
Always plenty of money to pay Muslim refugees,”Asians” and Africans on the dole with perpetual “refugee” funding
Civilization is lost when liberals and conservatives are fighting over government benefits.
Always plenty of money to pay Muslim refugees,”Asians” and Africans on the dole with perpetual “refugee” funding
Exactly. And, INVADERS, in the USofA.
Coming to a country near YOU, should the commies steal another election, here.
BLAME the conservatives.
Namely Teresa May.
She signed off on the net zero policy.
This subsidy was to mitigate the pain of the policy on older folk who were traditional conservative voters.
Obviously, Karmer can count votes and the first folk he is going to throw to the curb are those not part of his political base.
He is trying to take the 10 million pensioners who will lose their annual payment for fools.
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Wow, so if you accept your annual payment, you are a certified fool?
Assume “fools” is a typo. for fuels- if it’s in the article built in humor. In olde England the only people who paid for fools were generally royalty.
A small laugh at the degraded and crumbling UK under DER Starmer the Leftist kook Labour Party clown. So now, a laser focus on where the fuel subsidy to pensioners money— will go— what, to Ukraine? What a screw up as he permits Muslims to rule the UK.
Well, guess all those pensioners will be rooting for climate change now - the sooner things warm up, the better.
I guess the pensioners will have to put coal fired stoves in their huts to stay warm during the winter.
He is trying to take the 10 million pensioners who will lose their annual payment for fuels for fools.
One third of Britain’s voters voted for him. And yet he has the ability...and the desire...to bring the nation to its knees.
It’s what they voted for
AMEN, brother!
Pigs at the trough shoving each other around.
PERFIDIOUS ALBION is living right up to its name!
I don’t think that’s what the sentence means.
It seems to mean that Starmer believes his lie about the decision being unavoidable and not political will be accepted by the people.
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