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[Rita_Poon]

Well in Reevsey, make those millionaire pensioners look hard for that golf club membership.

 

[NilSatisOptimum]

They didn't publish them, they were forced to acknowledge them when the media published them and highlighted Freebiegate.

There's nothing correct about Free Gear Keir.

Oh yes, trial by media bastions of truth and non doms and tax havens.

So, by all accounts Reeves will announce a load of investment in industry and infrastructure in the budget because she's going to change the definition of debt to allow more borrowing to the tune of £40B-£50B, apparently.

The only problem is that it will just underscore the viciousness of the winter fuel payments cuts.

Means testing winter fuel payments to target and support the poorest is now, viciousness?

 

[Xizor]

The only problem is that it will just underscore the viciousness of the winter fuel payments cuts.

Tired material. Try something new, away from what you're reading in the Telegraph.

 

[davek]

Oh yes, trial by media bastions of truth and non doms and tax havens.




Means testing winter fuel payments to target and support the poorest is now, viciousness?

Starmer took £100,000 in free gifts and hospitality...that isn;t created by a journalist...and the rest of the Red Tory lot with their snouts in the trough did the same. That cant be excused or 'contextualised'.

Means testing when it leaves millions who were above the line and who are now falling into fuel poverty is viciousness, yes. Or maybe you think it's not a problem for those pensioners?

 

[Rita_Poon]

how are 'free gifts and hospitality' akin to 'the trough'?

the first item/s get declared, the latter got lost in the cost of covid and then ppe fraud.

I realise someone has a very chequered history surrounding covid and it's many ills, but this seems a bit of a reach.

 

[Rita_Poon]

Pensioners hit by winter fuel payment cuts could benefit from £200,000 fund

Money could be diverted to help pensioners who will miss out on the payments for fuel bills

www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk

 

[NilSatisOptimum]

how are 'free gifts and hospitality' akin to 'the trough'?

the first item/s get declared, the latter got lost in the cost of covid and then ppe fraud.

I realise someone has a very chequered history surrounding covid and it's many ills, but this seems a bit of a reach.

Cant really trying to link two as moral equalivance is the sincerest form of cap doffing.

 

[peteblue]

Oops…another sausages moment for the Freebie King at PMQ’s when he claimed that his uncle had been torpedoed in the Falklands. Now no British ships were torpedoed only one Argentine ship. Anyway No.10 have again had to clarify his comments saying he meant bombed. The man is rapidly losing touch with reality…I’m sure the papers will give him a kicking tomorrow though…..

 

[Rita_Poon]

Does/did he have an uncle on a ship in the falklands hit by explosive ordinance? Shot from ship, sub or airplane?

If he's telling rager porkies about an imaginary uncle in the line of fire he's probably finished. It's why I don't reckon he is.

peppa pig world indeed.

 

[Hinchcliffe's Corner]

Oops…another sausages moment for the Freebie King at PMQ’s when he claimed that his uncle had been torpedoed in the Falklands. Now no British ships were torpedoed only one Argentine ship. Anyway No.10 have again had to clarify his comments saying he meant bombed. The man is rapidly losing touch with reality…I’m sure the papers will give him a kicking tomorrow though…..

At least he didn't try to invade the Netherlands though.

 

[peteblue]

At least he didn't try to invade the Netherlands though.

Via submarine ?…..

 

[Hinchcliffe's Corner]

Via submarine ?…..

 

[NilSatisOptimum]

Oops…another sausages moment for the Freebie King at PMQ’s when he claimed that his uncle had been torpedoed in the Falklands. Now no British ships were torpedoed only one Argentine ship. Anyway No.10 have again had to clarify his comments saying he meant bombed. The man is rapidly losing touch with reality…I’m sure the papers will give him a kicking tomorrow though…..

If you don't get hard ons about war, bomb and torpedo are pretty much the same thing to laymens of war.

 

[NilSatisOptimum]

Looks like Winter fuel Allowance being means tested has garnered response and encouraged some of the poorest in society to seek out pension credit. Simply going to be better off claiming pension credit rather just waiting for Winter Fuel Allowance to drop.

Pension Credit claims eat into Winter Fuel Payment savings - Policy in Practice

Our new analysis finds that the rise in Pension Credit claims is likely to eat into the government's savings earlier than expected

policyinpractice.co.uk

 

[davek]

Looks like Winter fuel Allowance being means tested has garnered response and encouraged some of the poorest in society to seek out pension credit. Simply going to be better off claiming pension credit rather just waiting for Winter Fuel Allowance to drop.

Pension Credit claims eat into Winter Fuel Payment savings - Policy in Practice

Our new analysis finds that the rise in Pension Credit claims is likely to eat into the government's savings earlier than expected

policyinpractice.co.uk

Sorry, are you trumpeting the fact that 45,000 pensioners can now get pension credit and that offsets the millions of pensioners now denied the winter fuel payment each year from now on?

You're clearly just spinning for Red Tory.