Chancellor Rachel Reeves scraps some winter fuel payments as she reveals cuts to fill 'black hole' in public finances
Ms Reeves tells MPs she is taking the "first step to clean up" what the Conservatives left behind - but the Tories brand her Commons statement a "shameless attempt to lay the ground for tax rises".
The chancellor said those not in receipt of pension credit will no longer receive the extra money as she repeatedly told MPs: "If we cannot afford it, we cannot do it."
Of course it's a "shameless attempt to lay the ground for tax rises", we knew this would be the plan before the election. A major managerialist expansion can't occur without the expansion and Starmer was never going anywhere else but managerialist expansion. It's all he knows.
It will be interesting if Ed Miliband brings the brick wall a little closer though.
3 comments:
It's a smart move. Now that we're all getting those extra-toasty but inexpensive heat pumps, everybody will be able to keep warm, and they can phase out those anachronistic cold weather payments. Joined-up thinking, see!
I probably wont get any further winter fuel payments as a result of this Labour change, but I can console myself that I will burn a bit more coal in retaliation. Tee hee!
Sam - that's it, the cold weather payments are anachronistic now we have heat pumps. We also need to make way for the hot weather payments which are likely to replace them if the heat pumps don't work.
Tammly - we won't get any either, but we'll burn more wood to raise global temperatures. Tee hee here too!
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