When Keir Starmer said ‘painful’, he meant it. Prepare for years of ‘austerity’. Starmer before election: "There will be no return to austerity" ... “I'll be as bold as Attlee" He must be held to that. No austerity. Public ownership of essential services independent.co.uk/voices/keir-st…

Shouldn't MPs be means tested before they can claim their heating bills on expenses, or does that logic apply only to poor pensioners?

At least 28 covid contracts, worth £4.1bn, went to people with known political connections to the Tories. Remember that one next time a politician bangs on about 'benefit scroungers gaming the system'.

The whip used to be removed for misconduct. Now it's removed for voting against child poverty and caring about vulnerable pensioners. Authoritarian and unsustainable long-term.

Rachel Reeves can make changes to capital gains tax, inheritance tax and national insurance to easily raise more than £20bn a year. Punishing poor pensioners, children, cutting public services, inflicting austerity is a political choice. theguardian.com/business/artic…

Today the overwhelming majority of 650 men and women who can each claim £3400 towards their heating costs will vote against pensioners being able to claim £300 towards their heating costs

Signing an EDM, a sad face or abstaining today won’t cut it Labour MPs . You represent your constituents and you are meant to have a moral compass. Vote with your conscience #WinterFuelAllowance

The Labour Party introduced the Winter Fuel Payments under Gordan Brown to protect pensioners' health, to choose to revoke them today would be an absolute disgrace. I will represent the pensioners in my constituency today and vote against the government's plans to punish them.

I just voted against the means-testing of Winter Fuel Payments. I cannot stand idly by and see austerity 2.0 implemented. This is not the change people voted for.

I just voted against cutting the Winter Fuel Allowance. For me, this was a matter of conscience. This cut is not only going to cause even greater hardship for so many pensioners in my constituency who are already living in poverty, but it will also cost lives.

I voted against cuts to winter fuel payments. Politics is about choices, and the government has chosen to push pensioners into poverty. What’s next for means testing? The NHS? I will always defend the principle of universalism. That is how we build a fairer society for all.

• One of the very first acts of the 1997 Labour Government was to introduce a new Winter Fuel Allowance for all over 60. • One of the very first acts of the 2024 Labour Government was to scrap Winter Fuel Allowance for 10 million Pensioners.

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The Blairite Right have had the exact same plan for our NHS for the last 17 Years. Today’s report is contrived. A sham. There is zero causation behind their motivation it is entirely ideological. Privatising the NHS is their lifelong goal.

This Govt analysis of Winter Fuel Payment cut was not released before vote in parliament. Why not? 2.7m of aged 80+ will lose out, compared to 7.3m of those aged 66 to 79. 1.6m people with disability will lose WFP. 5.2m women and 4.8m men to lose WFP. assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/66e479bf…

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Anyone remember Johnson’s wallpaper? What’s the difference? One ex PM, one sitting PM, collecting freebies while huge swathes of population live in poverty. Lammy with his ridiculous narrative about President and First Lady being given a budget for clothes. And? Hypocrites 😡

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