Monday, December 04, 2006

Freezing pensioners



The cost of living for many British households is up to four times the Government's published rate of inflation, The Daily Telegraph can reveal.

Pensioners are the hardest hit, with inflation rates of almost nine per cent, as record gas and electricity bills take a massive slice out of their budgets.

The revelation comes only days after the Government said there were no plans this year for extra cash for pensioners' winter fuel payments.

Does the government not realise that if our pensioners don’t get the money that they need 10% of them could literally freeze to death? In a country like ours this should not be happening. It is a national disgrace when we have one of the worst winter death records in Northern Europe.

1 comment:

alanorei said...

Pensioners are not a source of many nulab votes and if they freeze to death, it will save the Treasury money.

Go for the meanest and most callous explanation where nulab non-support is concerned and I think you will be right 90% of the time.

Then apply the reverse where voter support and MPs' personal wealth is perceived to be in the offing; e.g. more money to the EU, which may lead eventually to Commissioner appointments (Kinnock etc.), MP expense accounts, Muslims, asylum invaders, taxpayer-funded 'diversity' employent schemes (scams) with minority ethnic targets by local councils, especially those that are nulab controlled.