Again, why are pensioners special in terms of not being subjected to complex means testing like the rest of the population?
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Could she start her own gardening company?
davek
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The Starmer elite are now squabbling among themselves to claim the plushest 'grace and favour' houses.
Reeves has been handed the 21 bedroom Dorneywood mansion in Buckinghamshire - a mansion eyed up by Deputy PM Angela Rayner.
www.theguardian.com
The winter fuel payments on that mansion will be staggering though, so it could be a bullet dodged by Ange - who'll have to make do with maybe Chevening House in Kent, just 15 bedrooms there though. That said, that's usually reserved for the Foreign Secretary, so probably Lammy is on that one.
File under 'hard choices'.
Reeves has been handed the 21 bedroom Dorneywood mansion in Buckinghamshire - a mansion eyed up by Deputy PM Angela Rayner.
Angela Rayner passed over as Reeves given use of Dorneywood mansion
Chancellor preferred for 21-room mansion, in contrast to Tony Blair’s choice of offering it to his deputy John Prescott
The winter fuel payments on that mansion will be staggering though, so it could be a bullet dodged by Ange - who'll have to make do with maybe Chevening House in Kent, just 15 bedrooms there though. That said, that's usually reserved for the Foreign Secretary, so probably Lammy is on that one.
File under 'hard choices'.
StDomingosGringo
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I’m wondering if they had a career that afforded them that level of private pension why they never prioritised house repairs.
Probably too many smashed avocados
StDomingosGringo
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Where in the article does it say there is any sort of “squabble” between ministers?The Starmer elite are now squabbling among themselves to claim the plushest 'grace and favour' houses.
Reeves has been handed the 21 bedroom Dorneywood mansion in Buckinghamshire - a mansion eyed up by Deputy PM Angela Rayner.
Angela Rayner passed over as Reeves given use of Dorneywood mansion
Chancellor preferred for 21-room mansion, in contrast to Tony Blair’s choice of offering it to his deputy John Prescott
The winter fuel payments on that mansion will be staggering though, so it could be a bullet dodged by Ange - who'll have to make do with maybe Chevening House in Kent, just 15 bedrooms there though. That said, that's usually reserved for the Foreign Secretary, so probably Lammy is on that one.
File under 'hard choices'.
Is Rayner on record eyeing up Dorneywood for years like Osbourne was or refusing to share a grace & favour residence like Johnson?
Window cleaning round
davek
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If you couldn't pick up on the clues: 'passed over', 'turbulent relationship'...
I'd say using the word squabbling might be an understatement.
StDomingosGringo
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So it doesn’t then.
The journalist decided she was “passed over” for a residence which in more recent times has been given to the Chancellor…because she was inspired by John Prescott.
We all know Rayner & Starmer don’t exactly see eye to eye but there is no news story here unless you invent one.
Sean Ashley
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I appreciate some will not have a comfortable living standard once the winter fuel payment is removed. But you have to set a limit where most who need it get it. And most that don't need it don't.
The only other way I could see the government doing it is by council tax bands. But would that really stop people moaning?
Mate, there's a large swathe of people who have said nothing whilst kids have gone hungry, bedroom taxes imposed, benefits claimants mean tested/subjected to stasi style interrogation and monitoring...
Now they're sharing memes on Facebook about pensions not being benefits, why can't we look after own when we fund asylum seekers etc.
Britain in a nutshell. The older version of the sorts who loudly argued for a smaller state, self reliance etc... until covid and they all screamed for support.
*sigh*
Sean Ashley
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Your right, but that's just nature of most not to worry until it impacts them.
When you run the country like a joke, like the Tories did for at least the last two/three years and it needs fixing for Tory voters to blame Labour for actively trying to resolve it, is a little rich really.
peteblue
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The ‘rest of the population’ are means tested when they applied for benefits. No pensioner has ever applied for the WFA. That is the way the last Labour government set it up, and supported by successive governments until Sir Freebie came along. Can any of you honestly claim that he is holding up Labours socialist beliefs in doing this. I know you will defend him, but deep inside do you really believe in doing it. If you do, you are more far right than any Tory and should be ashamed of yourselves…..
beergate, stopthegangsgate, twotiergate, deficitgate, childcapgate, cpssexoffendergate,
you're slipping.
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