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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