LONDON, June 9 (Reuters) - Britain will make winter fuel payments to millions of older people this winter, in a major U-turn of deeply unpopular cuts after months of political pressure on Prime Minister Keir Starmer.
After taking office last July Starmer’s Labour government cut winter fuel payments for all but the poorest pensioners in England and Wales as part of wider spending reductions which it said were necessary to fix a hole in the public finances left by the previous Conservative administration.
Yeah. They took benefits from working age people with physical and/or mental health problems to pay for it. I’m kind of glad I got rejected in the first place for the one they’ve cut, because that probably means I would have been one of those to lose it and it would have severely messed me up.
Am I annoyed anyway? Yes. But I try to remind myself that the current administration inherited a financial black hole.
Keeping the old folks onside might prevent them from voting for the fascists the next time around. Assuming they’re willing to forgive the slight, anyway.