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19 December - Simply despicable

CheersThis is a screenshot I have been holding on to for the past seven weeks. It shows the scene in Parliament soon after the moment Rachel from Accounts confirmed she would deprive old people of their heating allowance and allow 4,000 of them, on Labour’s own assessment, to succumb to hypothermia. Some already have.

If you look carefully you will see that one of the ghouls relishing the possible death of your mother is the new MP for Bexleyheath and Crayford. Interesting to see that the only exception is Diane Abbott.

I would like to think that the very few local Labour people I have got to know over recent years don’t really support freezing their mothers but I fear I might be wrong.

Gathering together the various comments that have come my way from Conservative sources since the Bexley Box arrived on the scene I think I can be pretty sure of the following…

The Box idea came from Council Leader Teresa O’Neill OBE (and whatever other awards she may have persuaded Boris Johnson to bestow upon her since I stopped counting). If the scheme is a thoroughly good one she will take the credit. If there is a suggestion that it might not be perfect and could be improved she will point out that it was devised in conjunction with Age Concern and woolly socks, gloves and porridge oats have their full support.

If it was down to me I would have asked Age Concern to identify the most needy and pay their Winter electricity or gas bill up to a maximum of £200.

All Councillors were asked to donate and at least some of the Conservatives did so with three figure sums. I suspect that they all dug deep or their selection for 2026 (being made right now) might be in jeopardy.

In my opinion, donations have been badly handled, no individual donation has been acknowledged and even Councillors have noticed and commented on the same. Every single Labour Councillor refused to put their hand into a pocket (information from two well known Tories) leaving us to suppose that they are all as keen to see old people freeze as their erstwhile colleague Daniel Francis.

Even if they have misgivings about the withdrawal of the Winter Fuel Allowance, brainless tribal loyalty to the party leader must take precedence over protecting the most vulnerable in society. Heartless.

I suspect that Daniel Francis will not be re-elected when this worst ever Government finally falls apart. In this week alone I have socialized with a total of 15 different people of pensionable age and the hatred for Starmer and his bunch of incompetent traitors knows no bounds.

Now they have reneged on their promise to compensate the WASPI women too. Labour appears not only to have a death wish for elderly people but a death wish on their own electoral prospects too. Idiots led by bigger idiots.

 

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