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Originally Posted by Kursk
Agreed. In the meantime the benefit from pensioner bonds is a drop in the ocean imho.  |
Which isn't, in any way, the point. As far as I'm aware never has been so I apologise for the confusion if I did make it.
It may be a 'drop in the ocean' but it's more than the combined savings of reducing the welfare cap from £26k to £23k and removing housing benefit from 18-21 year olds on JSA.
I rarely do this but I go along with the Tory MP on this one as he put his thoughts in a more erudite way than I can. Giving the impression of taking from the young and poor to give to the older and wealthier isn't good.
It seems an odd position to be against welfare for the poor but be fine with welfare for the relatively wealthy, so long as they are the right age, but each to their own.