-Removed-Because you are going off on tangents. What do I care if a labour politician has resigned over the issue.
The winter fuel payment, especially in the current economic climate, should be means tested. It is not right that more affluent pensioners receive the payment simply because they are pensioners. Only pensioners who struggle to heat their homes in the winter should receive the payment. - Your focus should be on such pensioners being helped to apply for pension credit (if they are not already receiving it) as it is a means tested benefit and an immediate gateway to the winter fuel payment.
The government, past and present, have not done enough to support pensioners to apply for pension credit. (Nearly a million of entitled claimants haven't claimed). That's where the failure is. - And while the fuel payment is a one off annual payment, Pension credit is an ongoing benefit and far more significant and impactful.
-Removed-My decision to favour a means tested winter fuel allowance isn't arbitrary and is the rational choice to make in the current economic climate, irrespective of who the government is. Again, rather than (bizarrely) dismissing pension credit as the solution (Hello! it is an immediate gateway to the winter fuel payment for vulnerable pensioners) you should be advocating for better awareness of how to apply.
But if we are going to talk about awful decisions, perhaps you better review you own in jumping ship to the Reform party and all the nastiness that entails.
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@A-Unique-Nickname saidSuzi is not British and does not know anything about the current argument, and so has elected to stay out of it.
Dive and ghost going at it like the good old days... Where's Suzi?
My politics however, is in support of the elderly and I feel they should get an allotment to defray the cost of heat during the winter in their dwellings. I do not, however, support this assistance for those who are fully able to pay this cost themselves without difficulty.
I also do not wish to sit here and argue about it endlessly.
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@Suzianne saidThey actually agree with each other, pretty much the same as you have said but other personal differences lead have led to the usual fighting.
Suzi is not British and does not know anything about the current argument, and so has elected to stay out of it.
My politics however, is in support of the elderly and I feel they should get an allotment to defray the cost of heat during the winter in their dwellings. I do not, however, support this assistance for those who are fully able to pay this cost themselves without difficulty.
I also do not wish to sit here and argue about it endlessly.
I remain neutral as I am from another Country. What happens in England doesn't have as an impact on me as what happens in the U.S.....Man I Pray that the Trumpster doesn't get back in the Oval Office. He should actually be locked up with the rest of his supporters that stormed the Capital on Jan 6., I date that will be remembered for Decades to come. The whole World watched in horror something they didn't think they would see in this more modern times. I am sure Russia, China, and North Korea enjoyed it.
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