Erm, winter fuel payments haven’t stopped. They’re means tested as they should have been in the first place. This first year could be difficult, but let’s see what Labour do in subsequent years about the boundaries of entitlement. At the moment around 1m of 13m are around the boundaries and it’s a sharp cutoff, but may be tapered in subsequent years.
Just remind them - correlation isn’t causation.
Labour are trying to unpick 14y of mismanagement and failed policies - did the Tories/UKIP/Brexit manage to do ANYTHING about immigration even with the fuel payment? No they just made us poorer and then tried to buy their way out of the mess they made in the first place. Had they not shafted the exchange rate for gas and oil imports, the WFP might not have been required by so many. Had they invested properly in energy, the Ukraine crisis might not have led to such sharp swings in domestic energy prices. Had they properly kept green energy prices detached from gas prices in contracts, perhaps energy prices wouldn’t have been so volatile.
Rubbish, rubbish, rubbish. Good riddance to them and their 7% following.
Erm, winter fuel payments haven’t stopped. They’re means tested as they should have been in the first place.
Quite rightly - and I say that as a pensioner who won't be getting the payment this year.
As bigblackshed said.
It requires no effort to form an opinion, we literally do it without thinking, but once someone has formed ‘an opinion’ for whatever reason they’ll often then work really quite had to defend, justify, and rationalise it.
One thing I've caught myself doing in recent times is reading things and instinctively reacting with "no it isn't," the reason being that I read another opinion piece which said something different about two minutes ago. I'm trying really hard not to do this but it's alarmingly difficult.
Both mainstream media and social media knows this. You can plant an idea in someone's head and once it's there inertia takes hold even if you subsequently recant the statement.
How many cover versions are better than the original song? Why? Because you heard it first.
