Aside from the original picture coming from an article about Starmer taking private jets, when the mode of transport was neither private nor a jet.
very droll* ho ho ho.
You're welcome.
Let's see how Kathleen feels when Reform make her pay to use the NHS and strip away all her council services.‘The joy went out of my life’: the pensioners struggling after loss of winter fuel payment
Many readers back the government’s decision to cut payment, saying they didn’t need the money, but others say it has made life harderwww.theguardian.com
“I’m frightened to put the heating on,” said Sandra, 69, who lives alone in Merseyside, and is just ineligible for the payment thanks to a small pension from her previous work in local government.
“My house is freezing. I have layers and throws on me, obviously, but I have arthritis badly, and the cold does make it worse.” It was 11C in her house as she spoke. “I’m trying to keep it off, and then I’m thinking, well, it’s cold. I’ve got to put it on for a little more. But I’m really using it so sparsely.”
She feels bitterly let down by the Labour government, she said. “I’ve been a Labour supporter all my life, I’ve never voted anything else but Labour. I will never, ever vote Labour again, because I feel like they’ve sold us out.”
Kathleen in Middleton, Manchester, has a similar story. As a retired teacher who lives alone with her two dogs, she said she stays in bed late, showers less and has stopped using her tumble dryer and oven in an effort to keep her bills low. Her thermostat is set at 10 so her pipes don’t freeze. She too is aggrieved at the government and says she is now tempted to vote Reform.
“I didn’t last time, I thought it was too extreme. But I actually think we need somebody that’s out of the mainstream and prepared to do something a bit different, because Labour are just the Tories in another name.”
‘The joy went out of my life’: the pensioners struggling after loss of winter fuel payment
Many readers back the government’s decision to cut payment, saying they didn’t need the money, but others say it has made life harder
“I’m frightened to put the heating on,” said Sandra, 69, who lives alone in Merseyside, and is just ineligible for the payment thanks to a small pension from her previous work in local government.
“My house is freezing. I have layers and throws on me, obviously, but I have arthritis badly, and the cold does make it worse.” It was 11C in her house as she spoke. “I’m trying to keep it off, and then I’m thinking, well, it’s cold. I’ve got to put it on for a little more. But I’m really using it so sparsely.”
She feels bitterly let down by the Labour government, she said. “I’ve been a Labour supporter all my life, I’ve never voted anything else but Labour. I will never, ever vote Labour again, because I feel like they’ve sold us out.”
Kathleen in Middleton, Manchester, has a similar story. As a retired teacher who lives alone with her two dogs, she said she stays in bed late, showers less and has stopped using her tumble dryer and oven in an effort to keep her bills low. Her thermostat is set at 10 so her pipes don’t freeze. She too is aggrieved at the government and says she is now tempted to vote Reform.
“I didn’t last time, I thought it was too extreme. But I actually think we need somebody that’s out of the mainstream and prepared to do something a bit different, because Labour are just the Tories in another name.”
They have caps on the percentage increase a landlord can raise rent by in other countries. Still doesn’t stop people being greedy but at least puts a cap on it.
Good for him. Others (2 million of them who just landed in fuel poverty) cant afford to be without it.
