Tag: Winter Fuel Payment

Keir Starmer has handed prisoners a 6.6% pay rise at a cost of £4.4 million despite depriving 10 million pensioners of their winter fuel allowance because money is so tight.

Meet 72 year-old retired teacher Lynn Emm, who, because of Rachel Reeves, is now forced to choose between warmth and survival, heating her home for only two hours a day while struggling to make ends meet.

Labour’s raid on winter fuel payments has already cost the taxpayer £380m after a surge in benefits claims, analysts have warned, substantially eating into the £1.4 billion saving claimed by Chancellor Rachel Reeves.

The BBC is under pressure to play a Christmas number one contender parodying Keir Starmer’s winter fuel cuts by 'Sir Starmer and the Granny Harmers'.

In place of cheap, reliable energy, Ed Miliband has been busy summoning up green unicorns with taxpayers' cash, says Ben Pile. The latest non-solutions are carbon capture and flywheels. No, they aren't going to work.

Why are well-off EV owners, swanning around in their £65,000 Teslas, getting off-peak electricity at half the price paid by little old ladies shivering in poorly insulated social housing, asks Nick Rendell.

Labour MP Rosie Duffield has quit the party over the freebies scandal, accusing Keir Starmer of presiding over "sleaze, nepotism and apparent avarice" that is "off the scale".

In a gaffe-prone conference speech, Keir Starmer called for the return of "sausages" from Gaza and suggested he had to cut pensioners' winter fuel allowance or "risk" a Liz Truss-style market meltdown.

Why has Labour hypocritically taken away pensioners' warmth this winter while its favoured policy areas are hosed with cash? It's simple, says Ben Pile. Because it can. Labour is the 'nasty party' now.

The Government has cancelled the Winter Fuel Payment for millions of pensioners but still plans to splurge £12bn on international 'climate aid'. And that's not even the half of it, says Ben Pile.