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Originally Posted by ianch99
So Starmer should pay then?
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No, he shouldn’t pay them. Everybody knew what was going to happen - the fuss is all over an admin oversight which meant they were not told
officially by letter.
The issue here is simply that Starmer was supportive of the Waspi women’s case against the government while in opposition but has now abandoned them, having assumed power.
I think Labour will be only too happy to go back to opposition when they lose the next General Election. They are much happier not having to put their money where their mouths are.
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Originally Posted by Mr K
Scrap the triple lock to pay for it. Seems fair enough to me, nobody could complain  |
That would go down even worse than the scrapping of the winter fuel allowance!
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Originally Posted by Hugh
Totally agree with you…
On that point…
- The Conservative Party suspended the triple lock in 2021, breaking a Manifesto pledge
- The Conservatives broke a manifesto commitment to fix the social care crisis, and successive Conservative Governments promised to publish a plan to improve social care - Alzheimers UK found that families are being forced to shoulder 63% of the cost of dementia care (equivalent to £51,000 a year on average)
- Boris Johnson pledged in 2019 that no-one would have to sell their house to pay for social care under a Conservative government. In 2020, more than 17,000 pensioners were forced to sell their homes to pay for social care (reported in the Daily Mail).
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Is this your example of the ‘whataboutery’ that you criticise others on this forum for?
I would just make the obvious point that Covid put paid to those pledges. Labour has no such excuse - that black hole they keep alleging the Conservatives left is a con. Their unnecessary expenditure since coming into power created the black hole, not the Conservatives.