Labour voted to cut winter fuel payment
Newly elected MP for the upper Cynon Valley, Merthyr Tydfil and Aberdare MP Gerald Jones voted to cut your winter fuel allowance, I don’t believe the last MP for Cynon Valley would have followed the party line and put party before local pensioners you get what you vote for.
Nearly 1 in 5 older people in Wales live in relative income poverty (18%).24 Relative income
poverty is where a person is living in a household where the total household income from all
sources is less than 60 per cent of the average UK household income.
The rates of relative income poverty increase with age, with 16% of 65-69 year olds and
19% of 70-79 year olds living in relative income poverty.25 The figures available for those
over 80 are based on very limited sample sizes so are low quality statistics – 16% for 80-84
year olds and 21% for 85+.
Beth Winter wrote on Twitter: What’s tough is that a Labour Government has CHOSEN to cut the Winter Fuel Payment.
It is a morally repugnant and cruel choice that will increase pensioner poverty, putting lives at risk.
An alternative, easy, choice is available – TAX THE RICHThe 4 Labour MPs in safe Labour seats supported you yesterday on the vote to keep the winter fuel payments for pensioners.
It’s an embarrassing moment for WM Labour Rachel Reeves.
The 4 Labour MPs that now represent the residents of RCT put the party before pensioners yesterday in the full knowledge that you the taxpayers pay for their gas electricity water etc for their London second homes.
Responding to Labour MPs voting to cut Winter Fuel Payments, Andrew RT Davies MS, Leader of the Welsh Conservatives, said:
“Wales will remember what Labour has done today.
“Welsh Labour MPs have put their party ahead of pensioners and will be culpable for a fuel poverty crisis among pensioners in Wales.
“The next few months are going to be incredibly difficult for pensioners, and for that Labour should hang their heads in shame.”
Shadow Minister for Social Partnership, said:
“This move by the Labour Party will have a profoundly damaging impact in Wales.
“Wales has an older population, and so the pain caused by this unforgivable decision will be felt even more harshly here.
“The Welsh Conservatives will not stop fighting to keep pensioners warm this winter.”
