I pensionati puntano a portare in tribunale il governo scozzese e quello britannico a causa del taglio dell’indennità invernale per il carburante
https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/cost-of-living/legal-case-overturn-300-winter-30085840
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>“Quite simply, (government) should have considered this rigorously. This policy and the decisions taken affect those with protected characteristics, including age and disability, and it affects 10 million people.”
If you’re arguing that removing something that only affects pensioners is being ageist because it only affects the elderly, then the state pension is ageist because only elderly people can get it. You can’t have it both ways.
If they’ve not able to put the cooker on because they can’t afford it, then they’ll qualify for the pension credits, surely?
I have next to no sympathy here – they’re pulling the “pensioners are people who plan things through” card while also, clearly, not having planned things through if they’re not eligible for pension credits but also can’t afford to use their oven then they’ve messed up somewhere.
They’re arguing that they planned for having that extra £300 a year and not having it throws that out of whack – when the state pension has gone up by £1700, which is *far* more than the £300 and, I’d wager, a lot more than the average working person has their wages increased by in a year.
I still cannot understand the argument that this is a bad thing, when a quarter of pensioners are technically millionaires and pensioners are *already* receiving a load of benefits and increased pension over the average working individual.
They need to drop all the stupid emotive allowances and wrap it into a universal pension. Like they did with all the poor fucks on universal credit.
34% of pensioners millionaires. £880 on top of accomodation 100% funded for those who don’t own a home. MORE THAN THE FULL TIME MINIMUM WAGE.
YOUNG PEOPLE NEED TO TAKE PENSIONERS TO COURT IF NOT MORE.
ENTITLED SHITS NEED TO GET A JOB.
They should save the money for heating their houses.
The Tories just released a video of some pensioners talking about how terrible it is that they no longer qualify for extra benefits. One of the guys is literally overweight and wearing a gold Rolex talking about how it will be difficult to eat this winter.
Oh boo hoo… have they tried not shopping at Waitrose or M&S each week? Maybe its time for them to pull themselves up by their bootstraps… something they are often fond of telling us young people to do.
Maybe if they didn’t have their heating set to 35c it wouldn’t cost so much.
“affect those with protected characteristics, including age and disability”
Disability is entirely irrelevant, you couldn’t get this fuel payment by being disabled.
Disabled people used to be able to get the Warm Home Discount, but that changed a couple of years ago and now practically the only people eligible are old people with giant houses.
No one gave a f*ck when people much poorer than pensioners lost their heating payment.
Imagine if there was a pensioner uprising and they all went on strike at the same time…
We’re all in it together except for when it affects us
“I never expected them to run out of things to punish the younger generation with and affect *me*”
The government and the state is immune from prosecution in the courts for obvious reasons. The politions are also immune from any wrongdoing for broken promises, again for obvious reasons. Just fyi
His Facebook profile is public at the moment and he has 3 dogs and a well maintained home. They are far from the poor scared to put the cooker pensioners that they claim to be.
Should have spent wiser then.
Maybe they need to review their outgoings and find £300 by not ordering shite off QVC.
Normal working people at each other’s throats again.
Humans are disgusting creatures, too busy infighting to notice the immoral politicians and lobbyists shitting all over them as usual.
So they have money for legal fees, but not to heat their homes, got it.
As a certain grandpa once said: I’m old – gimme, gimme, gimme!
Good to see that ageism is completely fine and even promoted on this sub. Do none of you have parents or grandparents that struggle?
If they can’t afford winter fuel, exactly how are they affording legal fees?