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Insane that the same people who think the welfare bill is too high and should be cut are the ones who make up most of the cost.
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Insane that the same people who think the welfare bill is too high and should be cut are the ones who make up most of the cost.
Fuck them kids, granny needs her cruise!
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There are ongoing protests in Argentina against the government of Javier Milei and his austerity measures, and low levels of pay and pensions.
"Argentinian President Milei’s government sent police to repress the elderly protesting pension cuts yesterday. The state pension, devalued by inflation, is now worth just $190 per month. Access to subsidized medicine for seniors has also been removed under his government."
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The row over Labour’s cuts to pensioners’ energy payments is about to flare up again after damning new research
Your regular reminder that this is the world's sixth largest economy and there are 165 billionaires in the UK.
five pensioners sun-bathing on Brighton beach c.1955 (photo: Bob Collins)
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Disabled pensioners rarely get the help they need or have the money to get it but some of you are not ready for that conversation
“A people that elect corrupt politicians, imposters, thieves and traitors are not victims, but accomplices.” (ANON)
They gave us Austerity.
They gave us Brexit.
They gave us Boris Johnson.
The people of Great Britain triumph again! They voted for Farage and Reform UK in their droves. With unerring skill, the working class are once more placing their faith in those that will only do them harm. But what choice did they have?
Starmer and the Blairite Labour Party have betrayed their trust by attacking pensioners and those on benefits when they should have been taxing the rich. Starmer, a man with no ideology other than “I want to be in power”, and no vision of where he wants the country to be, has been more concerned with accepting freebies – like many in his cabinet - than in looking after the interests of ordinary working people.
Poverty is rife in this country. According to Parliament’s "Poverty in the UK: Statistics", 18% of the population live in ABSOLUTE poverty when housing costs are taken into account. One in five people live in RELATIVE poverty - people living in households with income below 60% of the median in that year.
What has Starmer done for these people? Nothing. In fact he has made things worse.
An extra 50,000 pensioners were driven into relative poverty because of the withdrawal of the winter fuel allowance.
An additional 250,00 vulnerable people will be forced into relative poverty due to Starmer’s cuts to welfare payments.
On the one hand Starmer and his Blairite cronies coo over the 750 free breakfast clubs they are opening in schools, calling it a “game-changing moment" for poor families, while 50,000 additional children will be pushed into relative poverty due to welfare cuts.
Is it any wonder that the working poor are turning to Farage and Reform UK?
Unfortunately, although Farage, like Trump, is very good at identifying and exploiting the plight of poor working families, neither has the solution to these problems. As ordinary working Americans who voted for Trump are finding to their cost, turning to wealthy populist right-wing politicians to help make your life better is akin to turning to a loan shark when you are short of cash: the hidden costs are often so exorbitant you end up worse off than before.
A confronting story of pensioner poverty, isolation and loneliness in the UK, first broadcast in 1970, from the Thames Television Archive.
Some statistics on the situation around this time:
In 1966, 59% of elderly people living alone 'had particular difficulty in paying for either food, clothing, rates or fuel'.
At least 30% of elderly people were showing 'clinical evidence of undernutrition'.
During the winter prior to this broadcast, 60 000 elderly people died as a result of 'diseases associated with cold'.
39% of pensioners eligible for Supplementary Benefit did not claim it, through pride or a lack of awareness of the available support.
