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.

The magnanimous £460 pensioner rise that @Labour MPs are promoting. If you are on basic SP and lost £300 #WinterFuelPayment it will give you an extra £1 a week paid from eight months after you lost the £300. Prem Sikka Paul Lewis Martin Lewis

Re £900 pension rise that @Labour keep repeating. A result of inflation in 2023 that was 8.5% in Sept 23. Only 13% rec'd £900. Basic SP rise was £690, £13 pw. Only 73% of pensioners receive full basic SP. From April 2024 MPs were paid £91,346, plus exps and now deny us #WFP

#WinterFuelPayment I urge people to write to Daniel Greenberg CB Office of the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards House of Commons London SW1A 0AA about the lies The Labour Party are spreading.

What is this £1300 of extra support that The Labour Party now via Tracy Brabin, Mayor of West Yorkshire Tracy Brabin is talking about on #politics live. Is this more of the £900 plus £460 that is being said over and over? 87% of pensioners do not get this level of SP or anything like it. #WinterFuelPayment

#PMQs @rishisunak pressing again and again for sight of impact assessment re #WinterFuelPayment and @KeirStarmer ducking the question. Chris Bryant looking serious. Does it exist? Why does Speaker of the HoC not make KS answer the question? Prem Sikka

#PMQ Keir Starmer says pension increases will outstrip loss of #WinterFuelPayment As only 73% of pensioners receive SP at only the level of basicSP & the number being bandied around for ppl on newSP is £460 or 4% then it's barely a rise and possibly not at all. Paul Lewis

Will Maeve Sherlock Baroness Sherlock, The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (Labour) in the HoL please, please slow down. You are exhausting to listen to. For anyone elderly, slower of cognition, poor hearing it is very, very stressful. 1/

What is going on here? Neil Duncan-Jordan MP Bryn Davies @PremnSikka Ros Altmann

Just to add. I have tried asking the MInisters - it is a ongoing complaint with DWP about underpaid state pension but they say they cannot help as protocol demands I must go via MP Ed Davey

Jeremy Corbyn : “if we ignore whats happening to the Palestinian people then we become complicit" Retweet if you agree with him

How about #LordAlli also offers his Covent Garden penthouse as a community warm space this winter? ca.news.yahoo.com/inside-18-35-m…

This needs to be heard again. #PensionCredit #WinterFuelPayment #ChildPoverty #Starmer Jeremy Corbyn

Over 70% of Labour MPs want the UK to rejoin the EU. So why is Starmer now such a part of the crackpot - and of course financially ruinous - Brexit cult , and why don’t the MPs change his mind - they do have that power. Please repost if you would like them to do that.

And yet those successful women are hanging back from doing the right thing for 3.6million #WASPI women. We need to see The Labour Party women supporting justice for the #1950swomen who fought for the equality they now enjoy.

It’s old , and Australian , but it’s the same BS that will cost us £22billion . . . and all our futures .

Thanks to those reposting about up to 70% reduction in 50% inherited aSP for young #widows when they reach own #StatePension age. #DWP refusing to say what legislation allows this, refusing to issue written Statement of Reasons or allow Mandatory Reconsideration. Paul Lewis

Britain does not have an immigration problem. Britain has a racism problem. RT if you agree.

If BBC More or Less Paul Lewis the average successful #pensioncredit claim were to result in a payment of £51 pw bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00… is anyone collating stats on why losing £200/£300pa #WFP has finally made people claim and why they didn't claim before?

Compare and contrast what SI removing univeral #WFP says and this headline: Essex hospitals monitoring number of elderly patients after winter fuel cuts. essexlive.news/news/essex-new… #WinterFuelPayment