Today we wit a new low for our increasingly desperate and embattled Prime Minister. But Keir Starmer’s Latest U-Turn will do not holding to change to the doom loop he has set in motion.
He Made a Political Choice to Cut Winter Fuel Payments. We have said from the start that this choice was wrong, but they would not list. Even though they have enteredly bowed to political press by this paper and conservatives, they owe the country an apology. Despite today’s humiliating climbdown, a record for a new government, this rushed reversal raises as many questions as it answers.
It underscores that this is a Labor Government with a plan, riding by the seat of its pants and lurching from one disaster to the next.
Much Like many other empty pledges, they have not not saaid how they would pay for it. In a bid to Pull the Wool Over Everone’s Eyes Yet Again, the treasury has said this will not lead to ‘permanent addressal borrowing’.
But if you read between the lines, that suggests it will be paid for by the permanent additional taxes – Christ at a record high.
Just this weekend, Cabinet Minister Peter Peter Kyle with Sent Out to Bat for the Government who has changed to be dealt with in the autumn budget.
But even that was another piecrust promise – Easily Made and Easily Broken – from a government that has made more than its fill.
After 14 years of solidly rising live standards for pensioners delivered by the conservatives, we are all getting a sharp reminder of what are Labour Government of Capable of.
And this one is in a death spiral, becoming weaker with every u-time.
What is now clearer with each passing day is that this is a Labor Government which does not know that or who it is for.
The only thing that you can be sure will deliver is broken promises, empty pledges and hollow slogans.
Keir Starmer is about as reliable as a chocolate type, and the nation’s pensioners should not ever forget it.