Starmer ‘known around the world’ for cutting winter fuel payments for pensioners, top economist says
Sir Keir Starmer is known around the world for taking winter fuel payments from millions of pensioners, a top economist has said.
The prime minister’s decision to means test the payment, which affected around 10 million pensioners, has had a “much bigger” reputational effect than expected, Paul Johnson added...
Polling firm More in Common has found that Sir Keir’s winter fuel cuts are Labour’s most damaging policy in government.
More of the public are aware of the change than any of Labour’s other policies, while around two thirds of voters dislike the policy.
One of the politically absurd decisions which makes it so easy to describe Starmer and his Cabinet as stupid and go no further than that. There is no need to go further - the consequences of the decision were so easily foreseen, the savings so trivial, possibly even zero.
There is much more of course, but the imbecility began early and never improved. It's almost ironic, the globalist's decision seems to have a global audience. Good grief it's bad.
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On the other hand his dad was a toolmaker, y'know. Sort of.
I like your point about the globalist and his global audience!
Overall, though, I'm a bit worried with commentators focusing on the winter fuel issue, as it risks becoming a single topic which Starmer can redeem himself with to regain lost ground. He's too stiff-necked and weak to simply reverse last year's decision. But he might bring in some other policy that benefits pensioners, and couple that with the undoubted fact that no pensioners were found frozen in what was a mild winter. Then, "lessons learned", he can go on importing hundreds of thousands of third-worlders, banning gas boilers and proper cars, penalising free speech, and destroying farming, fishing, and Brexit.
I rather wonder whether m many years down the line, ‘Starmerism’ will come to be the term used for finding out the hard way that the people really don’t like what you are doing and responding by vowing to do more of it and more quickly.
dearieme - I'm sure I've heard that too, somewhere.
Sam - that's a point, but there are other major blunders such as National Insurance, the farm debacle, "smash the gangs" and the useless team he chose.
He has become known as a liar too, as have his Cabinet members. He could put one or two things right, but he could have done that months ago and seems incapable of compromise. His party needs to be rid of him eventually, but the chalice is poisoned so they may be happy for him to carry on for a few years.
Macheath - I hope so, it would be a fitting epitaph. "Starmerist" would work as a variant of Einstein's quote -
"The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."
When you are up to your neck in criticism, it is difficult to recall that the first objective was to promote class warfare.
I have long considered that the Winter Fuel Allowance will be Labour's equivalent to University Tuition fees from the Coalition.
DJ - his notion of class seems to be floundering around in the past too, so much so that it isn't easy to see which class he's waging war on unless it's everyone already living here.
Peter - I think you may be right, it was such a blunder, one that hardly anyone else would have made.
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