Category: Austerity 2
Angela Rayner’s benefits in kind
Angela Rayner wears her “benefits in kind” donation from multi-millionaire Lord Alli. Rachel Reeves on the hard times ahead
Rachel Reeves says that there are difficult choices ahead, that the poor have to make sacrifices and thanks for her new clothes. Keir Starmer, Angela Rayner and Rachel Reeves wear the uniform of the rich and powerful. They have all had clothes bought for them by multi-millionaire Labour donor Lord Alli. CORRECTION: It appears that Rachel Reeves clothing was provided by Juliet Rosenfeld. 
Keir Starmer says pensioners can freeze to death and poor children can starve and be condemned to failure and misery all their lives. Starmer Risks Conference Rebuke on Winter Fuel Cut as Unite plans to force a vote
Unite’s leader Sharon Graham SIR KEIR STARMER is facing a possible Labour rebuke over his deeply unpopular plans to cut winter fuel benefits for pensioners.
The party’s largest affiliate, Unite, will try to force a vote on the issue at Labour’s conference, which opens in Liverpool on Sunday.
Unite’s motion also calls for the scrapping of the Treasury’s fiscal rules, which have placed the new government’s spending plans in a strait-jacket.
It urges Labour to borrow more to invest in public services and infrastructure and says that “workers and communities voted for change — a better future, not just better management and not cuts to the winter fuel allowance.”
Calling for a U-turn on the winter fuel cut, the motion added: “We need a vision where pensioners are not the first to face a new wave of cuts and those that profited from decades of deregulation finally help to rebuild Britain.”
The attitude of other affiliated unions will be critical to the success of the motion, which will have to leap procedural hurdles to be debated, something submissions from large unions usually accomplish.
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‘Let there be no doubt, lives will be lost’
Image of cash and pre-payment meter key https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/let-there-be-no-doubt-lives-will-be-lost
More than 1.7 million households plan on keeping their heating off this year, survey reveals
LIVES will be lost, campaigners warned today after a survey revealed that more than 1.7 million households do not plan on turning on their heating this year.
The number of those who said they will keep the heating off in polling for Uswitch is nearly double the 972,000 who said they did not heat their homes last year.
Fifty-five per cent of those blamed the continued rise of the cost of living, while 25 per cent of those over 65 said their decision followed the loss of winter fuel payments.
Another one million households will not turn on the heating until December to keep costs down, according to the poll.
About 43 per cent of households said they will only turn the heating on if they are too cold while 31 per cent will only heat some rooms in their home.
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https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/let-there-be-no-doubt-lives-will-be-lost
Keir Starmer says pensioners can freeze to death and poor children can starve and be condemned to failure and misery all their lives.
