There's been over 11 million pensioners receiving that winter fuel allowance for a decade or more. From this winter just 1.2 million will receive it.
Isn't it good that all those 10 million rich pensioners wont be receiving their £200/£300 this winter. That'll teach the 10 million rich pensioners from being so rich.
There's been over 11 million pensioners receiving that winter fuel allowance for a decade or more. From this winter just 1.2 million will receive it.
Isn't it good that all those 10 million rich pensioners wont be receiving their £200/£300 this winter. That'll teach the 10 million rich pensioners from being so rich.
As a symbolic gesture of this new progressive inter-generational politics focused on caring, sharing, mutual understanding and fighting he one true common enemy (Starmer)...
As a symbolic gesture of this new progressive inter-generational politics focused on caring, sharing, mutual understanding and fighting he one true common enemy (Starmer)...
""They are casting their problems at society. And, you know, there's no such thing as society. There are individual men and women and there are families. And no government can do anything except through people, and people must look after themselves first."
It's her, it's been her since she sleazed her way in with promises of crushing the poor for eternity. Over and over again, it is "I'm alright Jack!".
Winter aint arrived yet, warm front was hammered under cameron in 2013, yet...
46% of children in families with three or more children were in poverty, up from 36% in 2011/12
The government has estimated that 4.3 million children, or 30% of all children in the UK, were living in relative low-income households after housing costs in 2022/23. This represents an increase on the previous year. The government has said unexpectedly high inflation, driven by the war in...
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Marcus Rashford went to battle over free school meals for the poorest kids, and eventually won a long protracted war where the light he and others shone onto the treatment of the most vulnerable in society eventually embarrassed the tory scum into relenting and finally feeding hungry children.
Where were the dynamic duo then though? Not a peep, as usual. To busy washing their tights and counting their money.
You missed out the very next line in her speech "It’s our duty to look after ourselves and then to look after our neighbour."
It's often used to suggest we should all be selfish arseholes, when that's not really what she's saying at all. Instead, she's saying that rather than expecting the state to care for those around us, we should also step up to the plate ourselves.
Not that Dave has ever made this point, but advocates of universal basic income would argue that the universal nature of that payment tends to work in part because the costs associated with administering a means tested system are often pretty large, so if you strip out the admin costs you have more money to go around.
As a symbolic gesture of this new progressive inter-generational politics focused on caring, sharing, mutual understanding and fighting he one true common enemy (Starmer)...