“Sir Keir Starmer wants to do away with the “untargeted” payments – worth up to £300 – from 10 million pensioners, when energy bills rise by 10%, to save the Treasury £1.4bn. This is mean, unjust and politically inept. There is widespread disquiet in Labour, which traditionally argues that universalism matters for poverty prevention because it generates public support for welfare spending. The Guardian Editorial Board”
The Western democracies are all headed for bankruptcy and what this far left editorial is advocating here is to not even take pensioner Mick Jagger’s 300 pound check away from him so he can still pay his own fuel bills with government money! I wonder if the Mick can use this dough to fuel up one of his jets?
And that is all I’m going to say about that!
Drain the Cesspool 