i wish people had got 1% as angry about the tories saddling young people with insane student debt; reducing benefits from the poorest people; and the constant stagnation in wages in this country, as they are getting over rich pensioners losing £200 they don’t need

Two facts re winter fuel allowance: 1) At £200 it's same in cash terms as in 2000 - a real terms cut of 45%. Slow drift into irrelevance. 2) Pensioners much better off than they were then - poverty rate down from 26% to 16%, median income up 38% (only up 19% for non-pensioners)

The framing of this as Pensioners benefits v workers pay, is why the UK media is very right wing. A ridiculous narrow perspective. #Politicslive

The 'Union paymasters' line is a very tired and lazy one The only people who have a problem with unions, are those who believe the elite should have the right to exploit working people Enter John Whittingdale & Inaya Folarin Iman, stage left #politicslive

I think we all agree that poorer pensioners should be included in any govt campaign to encourage Pension Credit sign up but can we also agree that 13 million pensioners aren't all going to freeze this winter by losing the WFA. 13m UK pensioners don't all live on state pension.

I’ve elderly parents & most of my patients are elderly. However, I find it tough to sympathize with a demographic that’s been fortunate to see kids & grandkids grow up; voted for Brexit; got free education; triple lock pensions; and kept the Tories in power #WinterFuelPayment

Lee Anderson helped kill THOUSANDS of pensioners during Covid under Boris Johnson, made households £1000/year poorer via Brexit, then told them they could cook meals for 30p... And now he's moaning at ME for the £300 #WinterFuelPayment being cut!?! Lee Anderson MP

I don’t recall the BBC having a reporter and camera crew at prisons when the Tories released TEN THOUSAND prisoners early. Lisa Nandy MP #bbcnews

The Conservative Party were in power for 14 years. They trotted out pantomime ‘tough on crime’ soundbites without funding the underlying infrastructure. They made cuts and forgot about consequences. The prison population soared on their watch. They, quite literally, caused this.

This is the same membership that chose Liz Truss.

The Tories are fucked

However much you oppose only giving the winter fuel allowance to those on pension credit, pause to gasp at jaw-dropping hypocrisy of Tory crocodile tears in the Commons today: no tears when Osborne cut benefits for the very poorest children by £37bn

The Tories are finished. They continue to LIE, pretend they did nothing wrong, and everything is everyone else's fault. This is why they lost the election so badly. Who is advising them? Don't get me wrong, I'm delighted. But how stupid are they?

I cannot agree with this more. The pay negotiations were for the workers not the unions. Anyone condemning that, is condemning public sector workers to lower pay. Don't you dare say you can't see a doctor when you won't even pay them properly

For the last time. The pay deals Labour did was for public sector workers, NOT the Unions If you condemn that pay increase, you are against our workers. Don't you dare say you can't see a doctor when you won't even pay them properly!

Please explain to me where all these Tory MPs and right wing shills and grifters were when the Tories were cutting Universal credit knowing it would put children in to poverty? Where were they resolving the strikes so doctors and nurses could be paid properly? Absolute liars

If I were American and STILL considering voting for Trump after that, I’d feel profoundly embarrassed and deeply ashamed.

Does anyone remember the Express doing this every time the Opposition opposed a Conservative policy in the last 14 years? Me neither #ToriesAreOut #StarmerIsPM68 #farrightfails #TopTierKeir

The most unhinged political statement of all time... "They're eating the dogs, the people that came in, they're eating the cats, they are eating the pets'' America can not have a mad POTUS

Helen Whateley refers to a pensioner who only heats one room during the winter. They did this under the Tories Helen. You’re to blame for this mess and the £22 billion black hole. Own it. #politicslive