Posted on 09/05/2024 4:16:50 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Sir Keir Starmer is facing mounting criticism from Labour MPs and party grandees over his plans to scrap £1.5bn in winter fuel payments for pensioners, ahead of a Commons vote on the issue next Tuesday.
In a sign of the problem facing the prime minister, 10 Labour MPs have signed a non-binding early-day motion calling for the measure to be delayed, while peers have also criticised the policy that would end support for 10mn pensioners.
“When we won the election, there was a lot of hope, and that sense of hope is being chipped away,” said Clive Lewis, MP for Norwich South who is on the left of the party and is one of the signatories of the motion.
Labour peers also attacked the plan at a private meeting on Wednesday, according to people who attended. Lord David Blunkett, a former home secretary, was “very strong” in his criticism, they added.
Blunkett declined to comment, but another Labour peer said: “They have mishandled this badly.”
The Conservatives hope to exploit the growing tensions in the governing party over the issue in a House of Commons vote grudgingly conceded by the government on Thursday.
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Will they bring back Drawn and Quartered for the Starman ?
The Brits can ‘thank’ their decades of ‘mainstream’ government for shutting down their cheap energy plants (electricity is now 50 cents/kwh) and their more recent ‘conservative’ government for cutting them off from very cheap Russian energy. Neither of which would have happened if the Globalists hadn’t seized control of their government.
He needs money for Ukraine and for 3rd world migrants. And maybe even for conflict with China! The sun only sets on British people, not the former empire.
How are the Tories even relevant at all anymore? They teed up this rogue Labor government. They are responsible for it. The only actual opposition in Britain is Reform.
No worries. Starmer will just order his lapdogs (the British police) to arrest anyone who complains for breach of the peace.
And then the tyrant MET police chief Mark Rowley will threaten to arrest anyone overseas who complains.
I’d like to say more, but I’m reinforcing my front door in case Rowley decides to cross the pond to arrest me.
Think of how much less the carbon foot print will be. And too bad pensioners. The NEW British need that energy anyway.
They are gonna have to do something with these nitwits. Tar and feathers perhaps?
Jya. Eff the ones that gave you life Kier. Smh.
He was asked who he thought was more important Westminster or Davos and he straight up said Davos with no hesitation. He warned them and they voted for him anyway.
A cold winter will see thousands of pensioners dead from the effects of hypothermia, but as Ebenezer Scrooge would ld say it will decrease the surplus population.
I’m sure he was planning on making a corresponding cut to taxes too. /s
Fortunately, a British Prime Minister has no power to order the police to do anything.
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