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The new government – good accomplishments and bad?

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Imagine the uproar and accusations of the wicked Tories literally killing pensioners if the previous government had cut winter fuel allowances. There really is no limit to the depths that the Left's hypocrisy plumbs.
 
It is deliberate, to prevent take-up, and the pension credit boost to take-up will not result in successful claims unless the rules are changed.

It is not a popular benefit as the rate is too low, but it does open the door to other benefits.

Linking pension credit to housing benefit is a possible way out.

An inept, clumsy peformance targeting the have-nots.

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The thing is, what does Starmer get to lose? OAP's don't vote for Labour anyway. Most Labour activists see OAP's as being the reason Brexit happened and given the majority, then any rebellion is just pissing in the wind and actually helps them flush out the potential trouble makers for later on.

Starmer literally does not give a single s*** about old people. It's rather brutal but also indicative of how he will be ruling. Politically there are almost zero downsides to this. It sends a message of how tough they are willing to be.

And it primarily impacts on white people. For Labour, the perfect policy.
 
It will simply deliver more austerity misery and division. It will blight working-class communities the most and be a gift to the far right, fostering yet more anger and disillusion with the political process.

The new government has to grasp the nettle and, imo, ask those who have profited most from decades of deregulation and privatisation to now pay to rebuild Britain.

The entire (estimated) £1.3bn saved on the fuel allowance this year will barely cover eight weeks’ spending on white elephant HS2 – spending that is set to continue for the next five years.

One could find any more examples.

People are looking at Labour and already wondering if they have made a mistake.

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steeleye20 said:
People are looking at Labour and already wondering if they have made a mistake.
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Did people ever vote for Labour in 2024 and think they were a solution? One stat that staggers me is that Corbyn got more votes in 2019 than Starmer did. Literally Labour lost votes. Nobody voted for Labour because they thought they offered anything.

We live in a bloody strange country at the moment.
 
steeleye20 said:
It will simply deliver more austerity misery and division. It will blight working-class communities the most and be a gift to the far right, fostering yet more anger and disillusion with the political process.

The new government has to grasp the nettle and, imo, ask those who have profited most from decades of deregulation and privatisation to now pay to rebuild Britain.

The entire (estimated) £1.3bn saved on the fuel allowance this year will barely cover eight weeks’ spending on white elephant HS2 – spending that is set to continue for the next five years.

One could find any more examples.

People are looking at Labour and already wondering if they have made a mistake.

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Always a great spectacle watching the Left attack each other - happening much sooner than expected though.
 
Matov said:
The thing is, what does Starmer get to lose? OAP's don't vote for Labour anyway. Most Labour activists see OAP's as being the reason Brexit happened and given the majority, then any rebellion is just pissing in the wind and actually helps them flush out the potential trouble makers for later on.

Starmer literally does not give a single s*** about old people. It's rather brutal but also indicative of how he will be ruling. Politically there are almost zero downsides to this. It sends a message of how tough they are willing to be.

And it primarily impacts on white people. For Labour, the perfect policy.
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I don’t know about there being no political downsides to removing the winter fuel allowance.

There’s being tough and there’s being tough on the wrong things. When old folk start dying and the total number of casualties is reported all over the front pages at the end of winter he’s in for a rough ride.
 
I think that it's an indictment of just how bad the Tories had performed in recent years that Keir and Co were voted in, and by some distance.

In isolation, the decision to cut the pensioners fuel allowance was bad enough, but hot on the heels ( pardon the pun ) of capitulating to the rail union is quite disgusting.

And while pensioners may not form the majority of Labour voters, their families and friends may well do - would they want to support a government that is causing this distress ?

The only words that have come out of Starmers mouth so far that I actually believe is that '' things are going to get worse before they get better ''
 
Rudi Hedman said:
I don’t know about there being no political downsides to removing the winter fuel allowance.

There’s being tough and there’s being tough on the wrong things. When old folk start dying and the total number of casualties is reported all over the front pages at the end of winter he’s in for a rough ride.
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Starmer is only interested in passing legislation. The majority he has is so large, with a significant amount of MP's who are literally incapable of pissing without being told to by the Whips, that he could pass a law ordering the murder of every first born child and it would sail through.

And killing old people, who are still predominantly white, is again all wins for him. He wants us back in the EU. We left because of the elderly voting. Its win win for him.

With zero hyperbole to this either. Starmer does not care about the fate of people who will not vote in the way he wants them to. All politicians are to some extent sociopaths but Starmer is in a league of his own.
 
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