ER Editor: Below we’ve got a BBC report from yesterday, with Peter Halligan giving us his take below that, on the new UK government policy to scrap a winter fuel allowance for pensioners who are particularly hard up. Remember how Labour are ‘on the side of the people’ …? People we personally know are going to hurt from this. A reminder that immigrants and illegals are getting put up at taxpayer expense in hotels that presumably have no heating limit.
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This is complete bollocks.
So “the economy could have crashed if winter fuel payments for pensioners weren’t cut”, but continue to spaff away £8m a day for hotel rooms for asylum seekers, £11,6 billion on overseas climate aid and £3bn a year to Ukraine. pic.twitter.com/2vabjITfUa
Two tier Keir and hateful Rachel will have blood on their hands this winter. Scrapping the winter fuel allowance will condemn thousands of pensioners to choose between heating or eating. That folks is the tragic reality. A despicable, callous decision by an uncaring government. pic.twitter.com/yhu6q1u94L
This imbecile is treating the British people as imbeciles saying scrapping the winter fuel allowance will balance the books while giving over £11 billion to African climate change projects,spending £9 million weekly on criminal immigrants he thinks we are as thick as he is pic.twitter.com/KMZvukI14C
Labour claims scrapping the winter fuel payment for pensioners will save 1.4 billion
At the same time they have pledged an increase in foreign aid from 6.9 billion in 2023 to 8.3 billion for 24/25
All the time, knowing Ofgem were hiking home energy costs
Beneath contempt
Again, we’re going to say we feel the wise hand of orchestration behind this. If you want people to see and VISCERALLY FEEL how government works against the public interest, what would you do? … Because the Covid bioweapon and depopulation injection were simply not enough.
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Winter fuel payments had to be scrapped, minister insists
JEREMY CULLEY for BBC
The government will not reverse its decision to scrap winter fuel payments, the leader of the House of Commons has said.
About 10 million pensioners not receiving pension credit will lose the payment of up to £300 from mid-September, with Chancellor Rachel Reeves blaming a £22bn “black hole” in public finances for the decision to restrict the allowance.
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MPs and charities have criticised the move in recent days, with the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats pushing for a Commons vote.
But Lucy Powell told BBC Breakfast she could not see a scenario in which Ms Reeves abandons her plan, and warned there could have been a “run on the pound” had the government not taken action on public finances.
Ms Powell acknowledged that losing the payment would make things even tighter for pensioners, but defended the government for taking “really difficult decisions” (ER: not for them) such as targeting winter fuel payments.
“The reason we are doing that is because the deficit was much higher than anyone thought, spending was higher than anyone thought,” she said.
“If we hadn’t taken that action we’d have seen a run on the pound, the economy crashing and the people who pay the heaviest price for that are the poorest, including pensioners and those on fixed incomes. (ER: ‘So we’ll just target them directly.’) That stability is really important for living standards.”
She said Labour’s commitment to the state pension triple lock and focus on economic stability would protect pensioners in the long term.
Asked if she could see any scenario where the winter fuel payments decision could be reversed, Ms Powell said: “I don’t.”
Winter is coming – the UK’s Labour Government is about to reveal just how appalling socialism is for everyone – tax and spend – damn the poverty and misery caused
Peter Halligan
The Labour Party in the UK “won” the general election on 4 July 2024 by maintaining its share of a very low 60% turnout, whilst support for the ruling Tory government collapsed. The Labour party has a super majority in the UK Parliament, whilst representing a super minority of the electorate. It had been in opposition for 14 years and only a handful of MPs have had any experience in government.
This has not stopped the Labour party from embarking on an agenda that will accelerate the UK’s path to turd world status based on the false premise of “net zero” targets, equality of outcome rather than of opportunity, and the censorship of ideas, thoughts and expression using the jackboot of a police force and justice system that applies a two-tier justices system, based on sectarianism/racial characteristics competing with the indigenous, mostly religiously apathetic population.
“In the financial year 2023/24, government revenue – from taxes and other receipts – was £1,095 billion (£1.1 trillion) while government spending was £1,216 billion (£1.2 trillion). The deficit was therefore £121 billion, equivalent to 4.4% of GDP. At 4.4% of GDP, the deficit was the UK’s eighteenth largest since 1948.”
Note the 121-billion-pound deficit; note also that the UK has national debt of around 3 trillion pounds already.
All this points to government spending increases by a bunch of clowns pretending they have the first clue about how to manage a modern industrial economy, already drowning in debt. They are like kids at a party on sugar highs, given scissors and told to run around, fast.
Now we have the latest rumoured wheeze.
Reduce the working week to four days for the same pay – mandated by the government.
“There have also been trials held in different countries including Iceland, Germany, Japan, Portugal, Lithuania, South Africa and Belgium.”
“We have no detail about how this will work in practice, but a consistent theme seems to be that it will not be compulsory for employers to accept such requests, and the government has said it has “no plans” to force employers to accept requests. “
Just think how happy and productive people would be if they got the same pay for a three-day week! The UK had a three-day week in the early 1970’s as a result of a coal miner’s strike. People weren’t all that happy abut that!
You really can’t make this shit up. (YCMTSU))>
People work because there is an amount of “work” to do, which has a certain value. Reducing work by 20% does not result in the same value or increase in productivity unless you make people work harder! Barring slave labour conditions, output will drop by 20%, so will the amount of goods and services sold. Employers would already be doing this if it was profitable.
Let’s take a closer look at public finances in the UK.
The outgoing Tories overspend by 22 billion??? How about by 112 billion pounds!!!
Check out those spending plans for the year to end 5 April 2025 – the current tax year end.
The interest bill is around 75 billion pounds on national debt of 3 trillion pounds – a rate of 2.5% – the Bank of England’s base rate is 5% and the ten-year Gilt is at 4%.
That interest bill is heading for well in excess of 100 billion a year in the next few years as the deficit piles more debt to the books and debt has to be refinanced at higher rates.
Check out defence spending of 66 billion pounds at a time when the UK has donated a significant portion of its equipment to Ukraine’s lost cause. That equipment has to be replaced now and also needs to be increased ahead of the UK/NATO looking to provoke war with Russia.
Other mutterings and rumours include additional spending of 6.5 billion on “the illegal immigrant” problem (for about maybe a million or two illegals each costing 25,000 pounds in direct costs and another 25,000 in indirect costs = 50 billion a year per million illegals) and ending tax breaks for “non-doms” – not illegal immigrants, but people in the UK who will leave eventually and who don’t pay much m tax).
What the socialists will do is increase taxes as well as spending. They will budget for large increases in taxes on the wealthy and on companies. The next budget will probably look to raise the corporate tax take by 50% and income taxes by at least 10%. They will learn the lesson that all socialists struggle with. If you raise taxes, you get less taxes – for the simple reason that people hate paying taxes and know how to avoid them, especially richer, smarter people and businesses.
Smart people know that “taxation is theft”.
So, “winter is coming” and the Marxists in charge of a sinking ship will put out a spreadsheet with lots of “goal seek” arithmetic on revenue and spending that will quickly founder on the rocks of economic reality.
Don’t forget, the Labour government wants to build 150,000 extra “green” houses a year over the next five years and meet “net zero” targets by 2030! The extra houses alone will cost an extra 37.5 billion pounds a year at an optimistic cost of 250,000 pounds each – and meeting “net zero” targets will cause households to pay 10 per cent more per annum – compounding!
Those 150,000 houses will, of course, be built with immigrant labour, who only have to work four days a week. The wages for builders are about to soar!
Prisons are full and room has to be made for those that post “nasty, anti-government propaganda” stuff , on social media.
Onwards!!!
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