‘We shouldn’t forgive or neglect Labour’s bitter betrayal of Britain’s pensioners’ | Politics | News | EUROtoday

Unlike the unions, pensioners don’t donate handsomely to the Labour Party. Nor do they bring about the nation’s infrastructure to a halt.

It isn’t any shock, then, that they’ve acquired nothing however skinny gruel from this authorities, which is socialist at coronary heart.

Dress it up how they like, Labour’s political priorities are clear. After 14 years of rising residing requirements below the Conservatives, pensioners have been shoved to the again of the queue.

By the Government’s personal admission, this coverage will throw 100,000 pensioners into poverty. That is clearly not proper.

Many of these even eligible for the £300 cost will miss out on this cost. Hundreds of 1000’s of pensioners will not be claiming pension credit score and will probably be omitted within the chilly with out the winter gasoline cost they’re entitled to.

Worse nonetheless, the Government has been taking on 10 weeks to course of pension credit score functions, which means many received’t even get their cost till the top of winter.

Cutting the winter gasoline cost from pensioners will save the Government round £1.4billion.

Setting up Labour’s new vitality quango alone will price roughly six instances that. Abandoning our plans to shrink the Civil Service headcount will price roughly the identical.

When Labour was courting your vote, they allegedly had “no plans” for this precise coverage.

It has since turned out to be certainly one of many damaged guarantees. Now we all know their new pensions minister doesn’t even imagine within the Conservatives’ triple lock coverage, issues seem like they are going to worsen earlier than they get higher.

Pensioners who’ve labored arduous all their lives should be pretty handled in return, not simply as low-hanging fruit for a spendthrift socialist authorities.

Many at the moment are having to make the inconceivable selection between heating and consuming. We shouldn’t forgive, nor ought to we neglect, Labour’s bitter betrayal of Britain’s pensioners.

Helen Whately is the Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary