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Originally Posted by Pierre
It may do, But I was referring to the removal of the winter fuel payment + the increase in the energy cap, which will result in thousands of pensioners being too terrified to put the heating on.
Strange, well not really, that you ignore that………
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Hard to ignore something that wasn't there in the first place.
The winter fuel allowance is now only being given to those pensioners who need it. The Conservatives cynically used it to buy the grey vote and would never have risked curbing it. The country's debt is 96% of GDP, the country's spend on benefits is high and the NHS is struggling so reallocating resources to where they're needed most seems logical.
Not followed the increase in the energy cap.
The changes to the winter fuel allowance were handled poorly and the government should have been honest that the tax burden would need to rise. I've always said that winning the election was a poisoned chalice and nothing I've read since then has changed my view. But I'd be the first to say Starmer's not given himself the smoothest of starts.