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Tuesday, September 10, 2024

Chattingham Pensioners, 89, Dreading Christmas Without Winter Fuel Payments

Sid and Elsie Dreadful: condemned to death by Labo*r government...
Two elderly pensioners are dreading the Christmas period as they are set to lose hundreds of pounds in government support.

Sid and Elsie Dreadful, from Chattingham, say they will now find it more difficult to buy expensive Christmas presents for their grandchildren when the festive season comes.

It comes as the evil Labo*r government is stopping winter fuel payments for OAPs who are not on pension credit or other means-tested benefits.

Tory newspapers say that tens of thousands of older people in Kent will now have to choose between eating or heating - with one newspaper screaming: “IT’S A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH!!!”

Up until now, all pensioners, regardless of income received up to £300 a year in winter fuel payments, including Sid and Elsie.

They say they now don’t know how they are going to buy nice Christmas presents for their grandchildren now.

“That 300 quid was my bloody Christmas money,” said Elsie (89).

“I don’t think you should have those worries at our age,” added Sid (89). “It shouldn’t just be for people on pension credit, there are well-off pensioners just like us who find that £300 really handy.”

“Now we’re going have to use our own money to buy our little Darren and Mandy expensive tat for Christmas.”

The Tory party, who have been bribing pensioners for years with inflation-proof benefits and other hand-outs, say the changes will lead to the most pensioners voting Tory in future.

Ex Tory MP Kylie Trollhouse; "all Labo*r's fault"
Kylie Trollhouse, former Tory MP for Stroochester, said: “We’re absolutely delighted that Labo*r have shot themselves in the foot with this one, so early in their term of office.”

“We’ve never really cared about society’s vulnerable, because people like that tend to vote Labo*r. That’s why we made so many vicious and short-sighted cuts to benefits and public services for the disabled, disadvantaged and long-term sick over the past 14 years, because those people don’t matter to us. But well-off pensioners are usually absolute Tory vote fodder and we’re over the moon that St*rmer’s mob have pissed them off so soon.”

“Our chums in the right-wing media are having a field day with this one. Cheers, Rachel!”

A spokesperson at the Department for Work and Pensions said: “We are absolutely committed to supporting pensioners and giving them the dignity and security they deserve in retirement.”

“But given the dire state of the public finances we have inherited, it’s right that we target the easy savings first, such as grabbing a few quid off rich old Tory pensioners. Of course, they’ll be a bit of collateral damage for those just outside of the pension credit safety net, but our focus group said that it won’t cost us a lot of votes in five years time.”

“Hitting pensioners is much easier than taxing the super-rich because those bastards have clever accountants and friends in high places.”

Though the changes won’t be enforced until September 16, Tories are urging those concerned to make up as many unfounded scare-stories as possible for us and all the other right-wing rags to pick up and blow them up out of all proportion.

 

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Kent’s Greatest Prick Ever wrote:

So Take the Knee St*rmer shows his true credentials by penalising the poorest in society. I use my £300 heating allowance to give my domestic servants a bonus at Christmas. Now they will receive nothing. Well done Sir Keir!

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Grey Mondeo Man replied:

I thought a true Tory like you was all in favour of robbing the poor to give to the rich? You could always try giving your servants a Christmas bonus out of your own money.

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Neil Barse replied:

You greymondeoman expose yourself every day as the hate filled Far Left anti British antagonist troll. You are definitely condoning this evil Labo*r government’s disgusting intention to condemn all old aged pensioners to freeze to death in order to fund luxury hotels for illegal immigrants. Like all lazy parasitic leftist scum, you are a blight on society and as such are unable to hold any sort of discussion without resorting to vile, frothing insults. Crawl away and die, you tofu-eating, Guardian-reading pillock.

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Yu Rong wrote:

Thousands of older people in Kent will now have to choose between eating or heating - with one source saying: "It's a matter of life and death."

"10 more dead in the channel."

St*rmer's not even three months in and his headlines are already challenging the death toll of the previous 14 years. Who knew socialism was so bad for peoples' health.

Apart from anyone who didn’t fall for the ‘vote Labo*r because they’re not Tory’ strap line.

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Vader 123 replied:

A new low for Yu Rong. Exploiting innocent deaths just to troll people online.

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Super Small Dick replied:

Yeah fancy connecting deaths which the Labour leader promised to end with deaths he's going to be accountable for, and calling that Trolling. Get a life Vader, before St*rmer ends it.

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Yu Rong replied:

Given that I am one of the few voices of sanity on this forum, anyone who has a different opinion to me must be an alias of that well-known far-left supporter of far-left terrorism, GreyMondeoMan. You are pathetic GMM.

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Gonads wrote:

As someone absolutely ecstatic to see the back of the utterly god-awful, corrupt Tories, the winter fuel payment cut is an unfathomable decision. Too much 'overthinking it' going on in the Labour government. Look, £1.5bn is peanuts, and is dwarfed by the fact that 40pc of qualifying pensioners don't claim the pension credit - as they should. That would add £3bn back. Pointless fiddling with pensions and benefits are Tory games and they're utterly unnecessary. There is massive national rebuilding that needs to happen, and that is where St*rmer and Reeves need to focus. Such gimmicky nonsense needs to be buried with the Tories.

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Yu Rong replied:

Well done GMM. Very thoughtful post.

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Chad Grindr wrote:

Whilst immigrants in luxury hotels will be kept fed and warm and billions in aid goes abroad, our pensioners will go hungry and cold. Typical of the leftist loons voted in by lazy morons who believed the lies of the UK’s relentlessly biased left-wing media.

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Kentiegirl replied:

Is it really necessary for the comments on every news time on this site to contain a comment blaming asylum seekers? Do the people writing these comments think that repeating the same nonsense comment over and over again will make people start believing it?

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Yu Rang replied:

Yet another Grey Mondeo Man user ID, no doubt.

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Grey Mondeo Man replied:

They are obsessed, Kentiegirl.

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Neil Barse replied:

…as are those who continually blame the cost of Brexit, 14 years of Tory incompetence and corruption and the £22bn public finance ‘black hole’ at every opportunity?

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Grey Mondeo Man wrote:

Yes, because we are obsessed by those simple “truths”, whereas your obsession is merely delusional.

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Neil Barse replied:

A typically stupid reply from the typically stupid remoaning socialist La**or-supporting woke snowflake that is GreyMondeoMan. Like all lazy parasitic leftist scum, you are a blight on society and as such are unable to hold any sort of discussion without resorting to vile, frothing insults. Crawl away and die, you tofu-eating, Guardian-reading pillock.

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Yu Rong replied:

Why don’t you reply to my phone calls and texts Neil Barsested? I’m pregnant with your baby!!!!

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Neil Barse replied:

I thought you were a fan of Boris. Just like him, I’ve had my fun and moved on. So should you. Bye-bye…

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DailyMailBob wrote:

you labo*r voters shame on you all to stop these payments is going to kill and make ill many pensioners in any other legality or legal form that is abuse abuse of elderly people the same as if you told your parents they couldn't have the heating on and you turned it off you would be abusing them st*rmer needs to be prosecuted and so do labo*r voters remember pensioners fought in the war to keep fascism at bay and now the labo*r facists are ganging up on them and taking their revenge st*rmer might as well set up concentration camps for pensioners as he obviously wants to kill them all by letting them freeze to death we can’t even protest look what happened when we tried to protest about immigrants coming over here and eating all our cats and dogs two tier keir had them all locked up not the immigrants the protesters it should be the other way around but labo*r hate us native english people and want to give the country away to immigrants still they’ll be lots of spare houses for them when all our pensioner die of cold this winter it's a disgrace and a labo*rite pillage on our societies vulnerable disgraceful there is a man up in the north of england who for the last few weeks been on a hunger strike in protest at this new government's policies the only one person who needs to be prosecuted in this country for anything is st*rmer

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Gonads replied:

Another stream of unpunctuated gibberish from (this comment has been edited for brevity – Ed.)

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Tornado Watcher wrote:

The old racist brigade were more than happy for the younger generations to pay for their Brexit, now it’s come back to bite them. Scrapping the winter fuel allowance saves 1.4 billion per year, Boris and his gang of morons promised Brexit would bring in 350 million per week (which would have made up the shortfall in less than a month if it wasn’t an outright lie). Maybe these pensioners should start asking Farage for some gas money instead of him hanging about in Dover looking for immigrants to blame for his mistakes.

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Yu Rong replied:

I see the totalitarian left (i.e. another fake ID for Grey Mondeo man) is defending the indefensible with the chanting of "I'm alright Jack" as if that makes things all OK.

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Super Small Dick replied:

The same pensioners who survived WW2?
The same pensioners whose relatives were sent to their deaths in the gas chambers?
Get over yourself mate with your racist ********.

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Grey Mondeo Man wrote:

Gas chambers? In a discussion about the WFA? Good lord above. Are you Esther McVey? And just where was the “racism” in that comment?

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Neil Barse wrote:

A typically stupid reply from the typically stupid remoaning socialist La**or-supporting woke snowflake that is GreyMondeoMan. Like all lazy parasitic leftist scum, you are a blight on society and as such are unable to hold any sort of discussion without resorting to vile, frothing insults. Crawl away and die, you tofu-eating, Guardian-reading pillock.

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Wankenator wrote:

Pensioners are soft targets for Comrade St*rmer. Let's consider how much money the Government will save when he's wiped out those on a pension next winter & subsequent winters. The added benefit is not only is the UK saving money but making more room & housing for illegal immigrants. Comrade St*rmer has in place increases in inheritance tax for those people who want to pass their house to a loved one so it's a kick them while their down time in British politics. I won't say much more in case I get arrested!

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Grey Mondeo Man replied:

Yet another poster from the far right who is obsessed with "illegal immigrants".

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Super Small Dick wrote:

Let's get real how do we fund the thousands of migrants coming across the channel we need to find the funding to help those desperate. The 1.5 million homes being built are for the migrants.

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Pseudocreem 2 wrote:

Comrades, dear Mr. Putin says for you to vote REFORM in next elections because all political England parties are same and Russian oligarch money is good for UK and dear Mr. Putin.

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