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11 September (Part 2) - They are called Liebour for a reason

I first voted Labour in 2014, 50 years after casting my first vote and I consoled myself that it wasn’t really a vote for Labour but support for a young Danny Hackett who had become a friend. I believed he was misguided in his choice of party but he was scrupulously honest which I thought might be his downfall; and I was right on both counts.

In 2018 having embarked upon a slippery socialist path I cast a vote for Labour again, not for Danny because he had gone from Lesnes Abbey to Thamesmead East due to the boundary changes. It was the same in 2022 my principal reason being that I felt that Bexley’s Conservatives needed stronger opposition and I was in no danger of changing the colour of the Council. Lacking a little in confidence I voted two Labour and one Conservative on both occasions and I still found the voting decision a difficult one.

It is a relief to know that following yesterday’s anti-pensioner Parliamentary vote to ensure that several thousands of old folk will die from the cold - and that is Liebour’s estimate not mine - never again will I face such a dilemma.

How could people who I believed were decent human beings do such a thing and their activists continue to support them?

Rachel ReevesTo make things worse the Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves compounds their cruelty by falsely claiming that next April’s pension increase will more than cover the loss of the Winter Fuel Allowance (WFA is commonly said to be £300). She says that an increase of £460 (the 4% Triple Lock extra) will cover the shortfall. Oh no it won’t.

As usual it is Labour Lies and their arrogant assumption that the plebs are stupid. Most pensioners will not get a £460 increase, for at least 75% of them it will be only £353. And that must cover two Winters not just one; the Winter that is fast approaching and the next one in 2025.

As if that is not a big enough Liebour fraud, because they are not going to increase the tax thresholds, a minimum of 20% of next April’s increase will disappear in income tax.

The net result is that most people will receive £282 (80% of £353) to cover all the price increases Liebour plans to thrust upon us next year. Council Tax, fuel tax and energy price increases plus general inflation in exchange for the £600 (two years) loss of WFA. How pensioners get through to next April is not explained and very obviously no Liebour politician apart from Jon Trickett MP (Normanton and Hemsworth) cares.

Certainly not anyone local who has proved themselves not to be decent individuals after all. Voting Liebour. I should have known better.

Note: For reasons unknown none of the sums reported in the media and by the Chancellor and quoted above accord with my own personal situation.

 

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