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[peteblue]

If you read my post again, you will see it's the principle of who they are 'attacking', not the amount...

This is the bit the sheeple in here don’t understand or don’t wish to admit to…..

 

[Old Blue 2]

This is the bit the sheeple in here don’t understand or don’t wish to admit to…..

It's just a surprise to me that Starmer and Reeves decided this was a good thing.

Perhaps they thought it would not, in the future, affect Labour votes too much. That's fine if they are thinking about the Home Counties and the Shires (with regard to pensioners), but appear to ignore the fact that there are a lot of Labour pensioner voters in towns and cities...

 

[Xizor]

Lock your doors tonight burglars being released everywhere...

Joined up thinking. When they start breaking into wealthier pensioners' homes this winter they'll can give them a big hug to share some body warmth, that'll make up for the WFA shortfall they're moaning about.

 

[peteblue]

Tory hypocrisy on this is breathtaking tho, especially as it was Labour government that originally brought in the payments

There is a degree of this. Politics were being played by one or two Tories in todays debate. The Labour lady from Yorkshire who wanted the help for the 880,000 who should have claimed but probably can’t for a variety of reasons including ill health, dementia etc etc, and then the million or so just above the threshold, I thought made the best input of the day. Just set a slightly higher threshold.

It’s been a shameful day for Labour, not all but most, and a shameful day for those on here defending this attack upon an easy target and whom would have gone wild had it been done by Sunak & Hunt… Shameful….

 

[peteblue]

It's just a surprise to me that Starmer and Reeves decided this was a good thing.

Perhaps they thought it would not, in the future, affect Labour votes too much. That's fine if they are thinking about the Home Counties and the Shires (with regard to pensioners), but appear to ignore the fact that there are a lot of Labour pensioner voters in towns and cities...

I think they’ve signed their own electoral suicide note. But it’s done now….

 

[Jebus_lives]

Did you not read my post? The movement in state pension is driven by the following:

Under the triple lock system, the state pension rises each April in line with whichever of these three measures is highest:

• inflation, as measured by the Consumer Prices Index (CPI) in the September of the previous year
• the average increase in wages across the UK
• or 2.5%

It's not a case of plucking a figure out of thin air. It's an increase that FOLLOWS what has already gone before. It's a catching-up exercise, not a financial lead in any way.

WFA has no role to play in it whatsoever...

It's a catching up exercise that will increase the state pension above inflation.

 

[larrygobfiend]

It's just a surprise to me that Starmer and Reeves decided this was a good thing.

Perhaps they thought it would not, in the future, affect Labour votes too much. That's fine if they are thinking about the Home Counties and the Shires (with regard to pensioners), but appear to ignore the fact that there are a lot of Labour pensioner voters in towns and cities...

Will you miss the £300?

£150 each if we’re including your wife…

 

[Jebus_lives]

There is a degree of this. Politics were being played by one or two Tories in todays debate. The Labour lady from Yorkshire who wanted the help for the 880,000 who should have claimed but probably can’t for a variety of reasons including ill health, dementia etc etc, and then the million or so just above the threshold, I thought made the best input of the day. Just set a slightly higher threshold.

It’s been a shameful day for Labour, not all but most, and a shameful day for those on here defending this attack upon an easy target and whom would have gone wild had it been done by Sunak & Hunt… Shameful….

You would have defended this had it been literally any other section of society.

 

[peteblue]

You would have defended this had it been literally any other section of society.

I most certainly wouldn’t …..

 

[Blue 1]

Should've just kicked the disableds again.

Don't remember the usual suspects complaining when the Tories spent 14 years doing that.

 

[Jebus_lives]

I most certainly wouldn’t …..

Don't talk rot. You'd have been telling everyone to calm their language, stop being so emotive, asking them to decide what benefit they'd want cut instead, talking about the need to manage hold hold budgets and individual responsibility.

Why the sudden pivot?

 

[Old Blue 2]

It's a catching up exercise that will increase the state pension above inflation.

Not according to the first bullet point. Read again...

 

[Old Blue 2]

Will you miss the £300?

£150 each if we’re including your wife…

My financial affairs are none of your business. Equally, I will not pry into your financial affairs. OK? Butt out...

 

[Jebus_lives]

Not according to the first bullet point. Read again...

6.7%

The state pension has increased by 8.5%

 

[larrygobfiend]

My financial affairs are none of your business. Equally, I will not pry into your financial affairs. OK? Butt out...

So no then…

You and possibly millions of others don’t need this benefit, but you’re crying about it.