Random musings and general banter.

[Duke of Cheese]

Oh sh….

 

[Dr Quincy MkII]

A variation is "now, what do I mean by that...", it's like he's preaching to a classroom of 6 year olds.

you forgot his illegal business ideas for Glastonbury

 

[Dr Quincy MkII]

Oh sh….

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[Lord Helpus]

Nope. It’s the cruel thing about this government. They deliberately set the cut off just higher than a single person on only a state pension would get. They could’ve set it anywhere - higher rate taxpayers, for example.
But no.
Any single pensioner, living alone on just a state pension is about £100 above the pension credit cutoff, and therefore gets nothing.

I’m ashamed that Labour have done this.

Absolutely right Prof. This vindictive piece of legislation was aimed squarely at standard pensioners because the majority voted against Labour. Quite rightly they didn't trust them. I thought they were pledged to support the poor, sick and elderly? The I.2 billion is a drop in the ocean compared to what the train drivers and doctors got and the whole policy is a disgrace. The 22 billion black hole is mostly due to what the new government splurged on settling pay disputes.

Still, as long as the cabinet get free designer clothes, luxury holidays and show tickets as well as claiming all sorts of expenses including fuel allowance for their London homes that's OK isn't it?

Disgraceful.

 

[Hammy60]

Nope. It’s the cruel thing about this government. They deliberately set the cut off just higher than a single person on only a state pension would get. They could’ve set it anywhere - higher rate taxpayers, for example.
But no.
Any single pensioner, living alone on just a state pension is about £100 above the pension credit cutoff, and therefore gets nothing.

I’m ashamed that Labour have done this.

I would agree with that, if it's to be means tested then do it right and investigate where a decent cut off (not causing hardship) point should be, of course this is to much like hard work for them so took the easy option of using Pension Credit/benefits as the means test,, which will leave as you've said those just outside of qualifying for benefits losing out and some will be finiacially worse off than than those receiving pension credit plus winter fuel allowance.

Although they state 880,000 folks can apply for pension credit, no way they will be able to process that number of pensioners before winter, probably take a year or two to get through those sort of numbers. So this process should have been completed before stopping the WFA.

It's also a strange policy to make savings as if those 880,000 apply and get pension credit it'll cost more than the savings from cutting WFA, £1.4 billion saving as against £3.4 billion to fund 880,000 extra receiving pension credit.

The reason i think this was done in this stupid fashion is, it's a long standing aim/ideology of Reeves (prob labour as well) to hit well off pensioners (non labour voters on the whole), so as soon as they are in power swing the hatchet without thinking through the consequences. Their dislike of well off pensioners blinded them from seeing they were affecting the lower income pensioners as well, or maybe they just don't care as long as they get their free clothing, holidays etc from rich friends/donors/business and thousands in energy allowances/expenses courtesy of tax payers.

 

[Scraping the barrel]

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" And I'll be honest with you..."

This 100%. He should never have to say this as we ‘trust’ that he is honest all the time!
My opinion is that if when he says this then he obviously isn’t being honest at other times(or this time)…it translates as “I’ll be honest with you on this occasion “ but probably not.

Awful deceitful presenters.

Another problem they have is the gushing praise for every item.They are all ‘Terrific(Peter),brilliant(Mike) best ever(all of them) Fantastic,wonderful blah blah’
This poses a big problem for them in that if ‘ever’ they do have a genuinely decent product we(the gullible public..not us) then whatever praise they dish out will NOT be believed by anyone.