orN Wednesday, Keir Starmmer indicates that he can be U-turn Last year’s trimming fuel cuts in winter. The Prime Minister informed the Commons he would look at the £ 11,500 threshold which the pensioners are no longer eligible for payment, which is more than the pensioners can also be obtained for good. As a Labor MP voting against cut, I think the government has to go further.
During the election, I promised that I would protect the community that I represented, fighting for people who worked in class and standing my principles. And so I am not able to do all the voting of conscience The removal of winter fuel payments From 10 million pensioners as one of the first actions of the new labor government in September. Approximately 17,000 people in my Constitution are lost in their winter fuel payments. Similar numbers are found in fires around the country.
If I think of the pensioners now, I remember the great generation of people who work in the class rebuilding the country after World War II. I work at Leeds clothing factories when I left school, and the Yorkshire building industry. I find that generation work hard to make the wealth we can see today. Have others served in the armed forces. I represent a lot of pensioners working in coal. Some work is dangerous. It’s hard and dirty. They help make light, heat and power for our homes and industries.
Debt throughout generation is a thanks gratitude. It is right that we try to get a decent pension for everyone by keeping triple lock. Right as well as Gordon Brown’s first budget in 1997, working Voted by introducing winter fuel pay to lighten the burden on cold winter days. I’m proud of that day to vote for it.
The point is made that payment – of £ 200 or £ 300, paid each year in the autumtion of all pensioners – the irrational given money to rich people. That can be in a small number of cases. But the fact is that £ 11,500 cut-off point is very low that it throws at least 100,000 people in difficulty In the hardest time of the year, as autumn in autumn slowly goes to winter. It is violent to implement it because the pensioners are not having their home adjustment pensioners before the frosts arrive.
Some say we need to return the fee to save the Labor Party with the wrapped wrap. I say something different. Government policy must be guided by real labor values, not only election calculations. Respect to pensioners, and accept that cutting to pay is an error in judgment. Cutting benefits of illness and disability should also be fully cared.
But all it brings a larger question. Why did the government make these mistakes? The answer is simple. Last year, the country voted for the change, not the continuity of insanity. However the government has defeated a stale economic economic economicoxy made by treasury of treasury and the Bank of England. We need to get rid of this narrow mind. We have to build a fiscal framework that deals with the realities of the Food Bank Britain, the deeper inequalities, broken public services and reducing infrastructure.
Some say we can’t endure our pensioners. But it is one of the world’s richest countries. This week, we know that the richest 50 UK families own many wealth than half of the population (34 million people). Do families in real help helping the generation helping make the wealth they own today? And if they do this answer this, should we consider opinions? I believe that we have time we pay for the wealth of the richest people in the country.
There are two final questions that the government should answer. First, when will the pensioners know if and if their winter fuel payments will be restored? The Prime Minister says he will make a notice to the next fiscal activity – but that is not suitable until autumn. It cannot be case that pensioners will be left unsecured what will happen in winter.
And my second question is: Prime Minister and Chancellor apologize for anxiety and stress that many people have experienced in cold winter nights?
It’s time for Labor MPs to erect and count. Let us continue to continue faith in central values to British people – above all things – like a country based on fairness. Justice for pensioners can be a good place to start.
