The backlash over UK Labour’s plan to zap Winter Fuel Payments to Pensioners continues, with 770k predicted to be losing out and the potential of seeing 4k freeze to death as a result.
The have now been dubbed The Real Nasty Party.
M+ BARONESS ROS ALTMANN: Thousands of scared pensioners have been in touch with me. Many fear they may not survive the winter at all https://t.co/Hd4L23dcIq <Even if Labour now backtrack & reinstate the WFP for all pensioners the damage is done. @UKLabour is The NASTY PARTY
— KulganofCrydee 🎗️🇮🇱🇬🇧 (@KulganofCrydee) September 10, 2024
Labour has made a MASSIVE mistake pic.twitter.com/6GHGQjDJRY
— Tim Montgomerie 🇬🇧 (@montie) September 9, 2024
‘Is Starmer now happy to kill 4.000 people?’
Jacob Rees-Mogg says there are ‘no depths to which the Labour government won’t sink’ amid tomorrow’s vote on removing winter fuel payments from pensioners. pic.twitter.com/uyLkn0bmrA
— GB News (@GBNEWS) September 9, 2024
Every single member of Parliament who votes in favour to stop the winter fuel payment for pensioners is a low-life scumbag
An oap who’s on 13 grand loses our on £300 while an mp on 90 grand gets their energy bills paid
This government is the worst in the history of Great Britain— mike erwydd. 🏴🇬🇧🇮🇱 (@mikemoves12) September 10, 2024
Things that don’t create a ‘£22bn black hole’ according to Labour:
💷 £11.6bn for international climate finance
💷 £9.4bn for above-inflation public sector pay rises
💷 £8bn for GB Energy to duplicate the £22bn UK Infrastructure Bank
💷 £9bn in lost tax receipts from…
— Mark Jenkinson 🇬🇧 (@markjenk) September 10, 2024
Reeves has explained that “There are more difficult and painful decisions to come”
Where to dig the burial pits for pensioners?
How to house the whole of Somalia in Letherhead?
Downgrading the friendship owls for Channel migrants to acquaintance pigeons?— Burnside (@BurnsideWasTosh) September 10, 2024
We’ve just passed 500,000 signatures on our petition. That’s over half a million of you who have joined us in fighting for the Winter Fuel Payment.
By sharing with your friends and family, you can help us keep pushing against this decision 👉 https://t.co/cCA3LqPHhk pic.twitter.com/FRy97nkcs7
— Age UK Campaigns (@ageukcampaigns) September 9, 2024
Any Labour MP who abstains on the winter fuel allowance vote tomorrow is a coward.
A coward who will put their job first before the pensioners.
It’s as simple as that.
And they are meant to represent those who voted for them!
Shameful!
Remove their expenses!@LabourParty
— Paul 🏴🇪🇺🇮🇪☘️ (@Paul_pawpaw) September 9, 2024
‘Is Keir Starmer happy for four thousand old people to die this winter because of a decision he’s made?!’@PatrickChristys hits out at Labour’s plan to cut winter fuel allowances for pensioners, despite defending the benefit against the Tories. pic.twitter.com/jhP1K4caX3
— GB News (@GBNEWS) September 9, 2024