Just between us: if Labour leader Keir Starmer had run in UK’s last General Elections with a platform of ‘cutting fuel subsidy for poor pensioners and releasing dangerous criminals from jail to make room’, he would never have achieved a landslide victory like he did.
But once elected, among many scandals and in parallel to other deranged Globalist policies, that’s exactly what he did.
Now, after getting crushed by Nigel Farage’s Reform UK in the latest local elections, Starmer is considering reinstating the winter fuel payment for thousands of pensioners ‘in a move to restore public goodwill.’
Everyone around him agrees that the decision last July to cut the winter fuel allowance from all but the very poorest pensioners has been a disaster.
The Guardian reported:
“Keir Starmer’s senior team has been discussing for several weeks how to handle public anger over the policy, which bubbled over in last Thursday’s local elections, when the party lost two-thirds of the council seats it was defending.”
‘Labour are liars, they’re deceivers, they’ve betrayed the country, they’ve betrayed the working class!’
Pensioner Ellen Russell shares her outrage at Labour’s winter fuel cuts, as a spokesperson confirms the policy will not be changed. pic.twitter.com/baQoH4ZZr9
— GB News (@GBNEWS) May 6, 2025
A full reversal of the cut is not in the cards, but an increase in the threshold above which pensioners cease to be eligible for the allowance is reportedly becoming likely.
“Labour MPs have been piling pressure on the government to change its mind over the winter fuel payment, as well as its plans for £5bn benefit cuts, before a vote on ‘stage one’ of its welfare plans in early June.
[…] Labour party activists say the subject of benefits was raised repeatedly on the doorstep in the local elections across England and were a key factor in the party’s loss to Nigel Farage’s Reform UK at the Runcorn and Helsby parliamentary byelection.”
You removed the winter fuel allowance from thousands of veterans and you punished grieving families of military personnel with inheritance tax – the first time ever that a UK government has done that. https://t.co/FpgcNsMzBE
— James Melville (@JamesMelville) May 5, 2025
People on Starmer’s team know the discomfort with the policy permeates all levels of the party and is rife among voters.
“’People are saying we haven’t done enough for them on the cost of living, and winter fuel is an example of it going in the wrong direction’, one source said.
Another added: ‘The winter fuel cut has become totemic and talks to us being on the wrong side of working people. We need to show that’s not the case’.”
Read more:
LABOUR MADNESS: Keir Starmer’s Upcoming ‘Tax Raid’ and Leftist Policies Are Driving Wealthy Individuals and Entrepreneurs To Leave the UK in Droves
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