Following a debate in Parliament this week, MPs voted 348 to 228 in support of the Government’s scrapping of the winter fuel payments subsidy to millions of pensioners. Just one Labour Party MP voted against the Government. In the past, the seemingly callous indifference to others earned the Tories the moniker ‘nasty party’, which some amongst them blamed for their continued failure at elections. But it is surely the party of the current Government that now deserves that title.
In the House of Lords, Baroness Claire Fox observed that a broader phenomenon of spite towards Leave-voting, conservative-leaning Boomers had animated much public discussion. Old people deserved to be confronted with the high prices, according to this tendency. She was sure, she remarked, that the Government had not tapped into or indulged and exacerbated this sentiment in its decision making but cautioned Starmer and his colleagues to be aware of the risks of fuelling this nasty political scapegoating.
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CV was not duped. She was a willing participant who was, and is, too stupid, and full of Tory hatred, to analyse any situation where one of the parties is Tory. Tory bad, Orange Man bad. Brainless, over-plumped and vindictive.
But she sure can add up!
Du-du, du-du, du-du-du-dur!
New?
The last ‘real’ (Marxist Socialist ideologically) Labour Government was 1979. Most people do not become politically aware or much affected by Government until late teens. So nobody under the age of about 60 going to vote or not vote, or persist in voting Conservative last election knew what was coming.
Hence the shock at just what a bunch of evil, grubby, corrupt, debauched, poltroons now infest Government.
Blair’s outfit New Labour was a remodel based on the Thatcher years, because he and others in the Party realised Labour would never get re-elected unless it reformed and moved Right.
But… old habits.
For dumb Eco Socialists in thrall to Davos instead of Westminster as Starmer has confessed, what is important is not dead pensioners. What is important is getting a little gold star on their lapels from the UN/WEF for pretending they are saving the planet.
Actually killing pensioners would guarantee a little gold star as it would support the depopulation program.
Teresa Mao was a Labour stooge who first used the term the “Nasty Party”.
Few recall that fact, she gave the Labour party a lifeline they exploited for years and most of the population believed it. Whatever May is, she has never believed in anything but her own avarice.
Maybe they should reintroduce the phrase “Killing granny”
It is September 13th 2024, the first frost of the year hit this morning. In my 63 years I have never seen frost in September. How many Pensioners will die in this almost certain, and long overdue, bad winter?
Claire Fox still hasn’t changed, she’s still a vindictive cow who hates anything more than a fraction of a millimetre to the right of her.
She was paid £312 for her day in the Lords.
Thanks, excellent article. We could add the billions in “climate aid” sent to other countries, some of which have the space programmes we had to ditch because we are too poor.
” ‘greening’ of the financial system”
It would be great if the Daily Sceptic were to publish a research piece authored by 1 or more respected economists outlining the extent to which current cult like adherence to fashion has caused misallocation of resource on scale never seen before and far worse than past Labour/union inspired industrial policies give today, it is business, especially very large corporations, that are choosing to look fashionable and drape themselves in a haze of climate and social virtue and Government is complicit with subsidies that destroy beauty, significantly undermine food security and cause chaos further along supply chains (the grid can’t deal with changes in wind paters or cloud cover for example).
Add to this the scores and scores of ESG, DEI, Sustainability, Social Value jobs that obstruct wealth creation, distract commercial and other enterprises from there main objective of making profit or delivering services, drowning out all but their ‘virtuous’ noise within organisations.