SAGREER ‚WIRTSUNGS „bekannt“ für die Senkung des Winterbrennstoffs für Rentner, sagt Top Economist

Youtube does do that: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQrvmY5s2mo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQrvmY5s2mo)

Top economist = part of the Institure for Fiscal Studies

It’s pretty sad as a leftie to see Starmer target the poor and vulnerable while sending billions of our taxes to fund the military industrial complex.  Having a titled leader rubbed me up the wrong way from the start, he’s literally part of the 1%. 

I hope everyone remembers how crazy you all went on Labour means testing winter fuel payments when Reform get in and slash the hell out of benefits across the board, before then going after the minimum wage and workers rights…

Hey, does anyone remember when we shut down the economy, borrowed 400bn and young people gave up a year of their lives to protect the elderly?

We were told its because we were all in it together, so surely the elderly don’t mind taking a hit due to financial situation we now find ourselves in, there’s no way they’re hypocrites that only meant „we’re all in this together“ when it was about other people making sacrifices for them, and not the other way round

Or in other words, stopped giving free money to around 3.1 million (27%) over 65 who are millionaires or 6.8 million (53%) over 65 who have wealth exceeding £500,000

Whist still allowed the poorest people in society, including those over 65 to keep the fuel payment.

I very much doubt this is true. I live in the UK and had already forgotten that his government did that.
He is probably known for supporting Ukraine and for not speaking out against Israel. For not speaking out against Trump when he threatens the sovereignty of Canada and Greenland.

Amazing how the right can just cause absolute havoc, reap utter devastation, be involved in constant scandals, run every public service into the ground, cut all funding and budgets whilst still crippling the economy, push absurd blundering unlikeable caricatures of human beings to the most important jobs in the land who achieve literally nothing, take backhanders, asset strip the country selling off everything to rich foreigners, do literally nothing about the topics their base care about like migration, ruin our position in global trade, decimate the UK’s global standing and soft power, but then still somehow be able to turn around and devastatingly label the opposition over something like means assessed benefits for the wealthiest generation in history and get it to stick.

Reform can literally push a generationally wealthy, privately educated, City of London stockbroker, whose father was also a City of London stockbroker, as a man of the people. A man who openly lied to Brexit voters about NHS getting an additional £350 million a week, only to then openly say he wants to scrap the NHS. Then they claim Starmer, a man whose dad made tools and mum was a nurse, whose spent his life grafting as a human rights lawyer, however, is out of touch.

This country does my fucking head in. The right just lie and lie and lie, contribute absolutely nothing, then scream like victims.

And to add, no one outside the UK knows anything about our winter fuel allowances. This article is just more dog shit intending to further entrench the right that Starmer makes us look bad, is a bad PM, everyone disagrees with him etc etc. what actually made us look like morons to the world was Brexit.

Known around the world for cutting winter fuel payments? I am a Brit living outside the UK, I can confidently say that for the vast majority of non-Brits it would probably come near the bottom of the list of things he is known for, if they had heard of it at all.

Well worth noting that the opposition didn’t have an issue with the threshold. They had an issue with means testing in the first place. I don’t remember anyone in opposition calling for a higher threshold.

To be fair, the *Margot Thatcher Milk-Snatcher* style slight being welded against him in some quarters isn’t entirely fair..

He didn’t strip away or remove the winter fuel payment, he applied a degree of means testing to it to ensure only those who need the help receive it. Those who are sufficiently affluent and in a position to manage can no longer claim it and deprive others of the help through doing so..

I can’t really fathom him politically, judging him by his previous pre prime-ministerial life.. The heartless blanket snatcher thing seems kinda disingenuous, unfair and cynical tbh..

Scary the billionaire backed ( purported) glove puppet of a certain leader – with no discernible evidence of social conscience.. is gaining ground through these right-wing tropes and smears.

But in Starmers defence, being told a list of dead and dying pensioners is the only way he can get an erection these days……

Cut benefits to the worst off in the country ✅

Means test the wealthiest group of individuals from getting benefits ❌

No doubt he’s ’known around the world’ by the conservatives as opposed to everyone globally.

‘The World’ pub, near Slough, just off the A34, turn left at the doggers lay-by, look for the St George’s crosses.

Yeah I’m sure he’s known around the world for that 😂

What the fuck is journalism now..

Good. People with properties worth millions should not be getting enabled by exploiting the working class.

Sell your investments like adults.

It was the right thing to do. Imagine any other benefit not being means tested.

If there’s one lesson to take fron this, it’s that pensioners are untouchable politically.

Considering the push back on this, there’s no way that something like the triple lock will ever be touched.