We call this defimation or character, I also think it's up to us what we spend our money on, we've worked all I life for it. Sorry to hear about your sister in-law,
Well if Reform UK don't win in 2029 we will deserve what we get. The Cons/labour both take orders from the world Economic Forum known as the WEF. But sadly not many people know this.
Stop out goings to overseas, or cut it too fill the whole charity starts at home. That man is looking down at poor people like a English lord looked at people back in the day. Seem that poor / disabled / British citizens who are trying to get a job as the low of the low. Sure looks like he from the 50’s.
This pensioner 80 yr old, has never smoked, nor drinks alcohol. My husband, 86 has Alzheimer’s and I’m his carer. We can no longer go on holiday and my pension is just above the government limit for the winter fuel allowance. I still find a little money for charities and help others. Thanks a bunch.
Bless you. Have you got in contact with Citizens Advice, Help The Aged, or other charities who will look at what you've got coming in and see if you're entitled to any more monies? They can be really helpful..You should be getting an extra allowance for your husband as he needs care. All the best.
Charities!. Give them nothing! Where is the voice of age concern over the 30,000 deaths in care homes? Where is the voice of the nspcc over child grapes? Where is the voice of the British heart Foundation over all the young dying from the arm intervention? Where is the voice of the RSPCA over halal slaughter? Give them nothing! Only support local independent charities.
I neither smoked nor drank but like an Idiot saved hard for my ‘Old Age’. Because of doing that I GET NOTHING extra from the Government & even that, it seems, is too much for SOME people.
@@juliegwilliam8503 I do give to local charities but the only others are the Alzheimer’s Association & M.E. Assoc as I’m a sufferer, and the government only gives £1 per 250,000 sufferers for M.E. research. M.E. Has been around for over 40yrs but the shrinks have persuaded everyone that it’s all in your head. Believe me, it’s not. They give more to research for hair loss!
The people he insults are: - the now retired midwife, nurses, and doctors who helped him take his first breath - the now retired teachers who taught him to read, write, and count - the police officers and soldiers who kept him safe - those who built his shelter to live in - the farmers who worked tirelessly to put food on his plate - the driver instructor who taught him to drive (or the drivers who drive him places) - the council workers who sanitised the roads he lives on I could go on and on. Are they all undeserving of a dignified retirement, Mr Amos? Could you have survived and taken on their jobs to sustain yourself on your own? I didn't think so. With your logic, Mr Amos, all those individuals should have the right to refuse you a service unless you pay the price they demand. I'm a millennial who will probably never get to retire, but unlike you in your privileged little world, I understand the meaning of '' community '' and I don't blame older generations who only want the best for mine but are trapped as much as I am. Those retired or retiring were the ones who guided me through childhood - it's not always about money, Mr Amos!
do you get it now,people? dont smoke,dont drink, dont eat junk food,dont complain about it, pay your taxes,and if you do complain youll end up in jail for it. what the hell has happened to your country? wake the hell up.
Hang on we paid National Insurance and Income Tax for Our Pension over 40 Years. And this Mug is telling us we cannot expect to have a Pint or a Holiday. We gave our Fruits of Labour to provide for the Generation of Pensioners before us. We also provided the majority of the Money on Education. And Sadly it Produced a prat like him
I worked bloody hard 44 years, I don't smoke or drink but if I had the money to spend on smoking and drinking I've rather spend on keeping warm. Shame on you
I totally agree. I worked from 1966 to 2021, only the lock downs stopped me working at age 69. I dont smoke and drink very rarely but the standing charges on my energy bills are half of my energy costs as I live alone and in winter I am cold. I did have a small private pension from a past employer, but I am paying tax on that. Pensioners cannot manage on their pensions and many live alone in rented accommodation. We will see more homeless pensioners this year and this idiot who thinks pensioners have spare cash, he needs a reality check.
Neither I or the wife smoke or drink much alcohol but are like many recieve just over the pension threshold so we lose out and like you I used the money to pay gas and electric bills. Notice they didn't and probably won't deduct even £5 a week of all these illegals which would have been better and more acceptable. Let's wait until he raises taxes and Luddenden to all those saying, " Well Pensioners don't need this fuel allowance anyway."
If I want a smoke...if I want a pint..I will have one..and some pervert with hair on his upper lip ..obviously suffering from severe sexual problems..wont tell me what to do..I would say even your own family hates you.
@@romystumpy1197 What do you call "many". I would state that I know "many" who do not drink or smoke, including myself, who has never smoked, and just have half a glass of wine at Christmas and special occasions. Has this guy had a lobotomy because he sounds as though he has mental health issues?
this is a most wicked comment . 1. I have never ever smoked .2 I have never taken Alcohol. I worked from age 15 years for an employer who did not have a pension scheme. I have not ever had a proper holiday since age 7 years & that was only a few days at my local seaside resort. The pensioner haters who think we do not need the winter fuel allowance should be brought before the courts and punished . We did try to save for retirement but there was no minimum wage, long hours & only one weeks paid leave (it did go up to two weeks ) there was still some food rationing . very high unemployment & much higher interest payments than any recent ones. Those who hate pensioners so much need to be dealt with as a hate crime. & made to see reality ! One day they will be old !
They forget that cheap foreign labour kept wages down for working class people. The people who often didn't have good company pensions or who couldn't afford to pay into a scheme so are dependent upon their state pension. I'm as angry as you are.
@@jenniferjenkins1341 45 years full time working and was forced to pay into a Government Pension, now I have to survive on half the national average salary. If I'd had a choice I could have invested in a private pension and would be living the good life, but I wasn't in a position to have an additional pension.
What about MPs claiming heating for their second homes!!! I'm a pensioner I neither drink or smoke but I am getting more and more afraid of this government. Tyrants 😡
I wasn't privileged. Grew up in the hard knock school of life, Popeye. Got off my skinny arse and grafted and made something of myself. I am not privileged so go get fuck÷d.
Direct your ire to the UPPER CLASS! It's YOU who's the problem otherwise, you knob! The MIDDLE CLASS are the lot stuck in the middle, getting sod all from the Gov and paying for the feckless morons and the "can't be bothered to work" lot. Which are you?!
How dare you. I dont smoke or drink alcohol and have not had a holiday for the last 10 years. This is exactly what is wrong with todays politics . Stop the winter fuel allowances but let the privileged politicians claim heating allowances on their second homes. Why are you so surprised that such a large percent of the populace have no respect for you.
Labour MPs are shameless hypocrites, taking all the freebies and subsidies with one hand and pushing more and more pensioners below the poverty line who don't qualify for pension credits. Shame on this government.
What illegal immigrants? Do mean asylum seekers, because they are here LEGALLY. Under the 1951 UN Refugee Convention (of which the UK is a signatory) anyone entering a country to claim asylum BY ANY MEANS does so legally. Only if they are assessed and refused asylum do they become illegal immigrants and they are deported. It's time you right wing idiots learned some law.
I'm not sure that Amos is actually a Labour apparatchik. I looked him up, and he is described as "an English individualist writer with particular interests in Paternalism and Rights theory." He is firmly opposed to Redistributive taxation. Quite interesting that Labour's first move should be something Amos approves of.
How can anyone say the pensioners 'don't need' and to excuse them of lying when they say its heating or eating. How dare they accuse them of wasting money on cigarettes and alcohol. This man needs to be put in their position for a year and then come back and see if he feels the same. This man is a disgrace and should be ashamed of himself.
When we get old most become infirm and need extra warmth. Now they are putting up the energy bills. Evil man. Needs to get his facts straight. God Bless 🙌 Praying all goes well for you. 🤞✌🏻
WOW WE NEED TO GET RID OF THE MIGRANTS AND SAVE MILLIONS OF POUNDS PER DAY .WE HAVE HIT ROCK BOTTOM IF WE CANT SUPPORT OUR PENSIONERS AND VETERANS AND HOMELESS AND THE DISABLED.
Starmer is gifting thousands of immigrants the right to the top of the health and housing free glasses, teeth and health plus housing without contributing 1p … that is Wrong
How can that man in the middle have the audacity to say pensioners shouldn't smoke drink or holiday they have worked all their lives and paid tax and stamps for years tell all the MPs they can't do it and take their allowance for second homes off them
Unfortunately they are way too common in soceity. They are aloof and they disappear into their ivory towers. They are the types of people you put on the list to avoid, as they suck the energy out of the room.
Charles, no one is above me excepting God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit, no one is beneath me. We are all equal. We came into the world without anything and we leave it without anything. I met your pompous brothers and sisters at university and I was not popular, however, that didn’t matter. Black is black and white is white, there are no grey areas. We have the workers who are no less important and maybe more important than The pompous type of person you are. You undervalued the working man/woman in the late 70’s, imported cheap labour and threw your own countrymen on the scrap heap. You took away all the industrial employment, farm work, you name it , you took it and left your fellow man with no replacement.nAll for your own greed. Now you complain because they do not have high pensions, and need certain top ups eg., heating allowance, pension credit. That disgusting person sitting next to you doesn’t even want the sick and disabled to have any benefits. There was an Austrian man in history, that thought the poor, disabled, mentally ill etc., were a waste of oxygen. He had an idea, which looks like be revisited to solve the problem. Empathy is sorely lacking in today Britain and it lacking from the top down. I voted reform, I worked and have a pension, do not smoke nor do I drink, however, the wear and tear from jobs that I did have effected my joints and circulation, I require extra heating or I find it hard to be mobile. Yes, I did manual work and enjoyed it. I also worked in two professional vocations. Snobbery, I could not stand. I speak to anyone, regardless of their “ perceived class”. As I said, no one is above me and no one is beneath me
…….. and Charles Amos is also a blithering bloody idiot with no pride or social conscience, and is probably also semiliterate. Who allowed someone like that an opinion?
@@sil_ww Tell me you are envious, without telling me you are envious. They worked hard and people like you voted for politicions who creates inflation with their disastrous policies.
He has insulted most sections of society over the years...He said that women are not socially or economically equal to men for instance, and that it is ok to make racist remarks
87-year-old, don't drink or smoke. Winter heating allowance for pensioners scrapped to help pay the billions spent on immigrants, immigrants who have never paid a bent penny into the system. Sounds fair🙃
I get what your saying and you have a valid point, except immigrants themselves don't get anything, its people who have achieved asylum who will be entitled to housing and benefits without having paid in the pot, not immigrants, immigrants have to stand on their own feet, and have paid into the pot like everyone else, illegal migrants, also get zero because their here illegally and will have no access to public funds, they must work in jobs unannounced to fund their lives, diagnose the issue properly, or you end up looking stupid and no one will listen, if you say look we have a problem in our country, we need to limit the amount of people coming here seeking asylum as we currently cannot look after our own, then this is a valid conversation, we do not have the resources to stretch to help everyone. This holds some truth, we had over 200,000 Ukrainians come to the uk, getting benefits, housing and bus passes, whilst british people, including the children of second generation immigrants, who do work and pay into the pot, have to wait sometimes over a decade for housing, and why has this happened? because of our countries politics, we didn't have a hand in what has happened in Ukraine, and russia did create a humanitarian pathway for Ukrainians to leave, should have gone to poland who have much more space then we do, and we shortly have a better economy then we do.
How dare Mr Amos say pensioners spend all that money on restaurants, holidays, alcohol and cigarettes! I have never smoked, never drunk alcohol, never gone to restaurants, and my last holiday was about forty years ago when my children were small and I took them camping. I'm 74, and have to count every penny. Mr Amos is an example of how blind people with power are.
If you haven’t had a holiday for all that time? What the heck have you been doing with your time? Didn’t you work to earn money? Did you just waste if?
IS IT A GENOCIDAL ATTEMTED MURDER , ? THIS GREEN BERET DOES FIND IT SO , ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS GET FREE HOTEL HOUSING AND FREE ELECTRIC DO THEY NOT I QUESTION .
If you come over in a rubber boat they put you in a hotel, give them a phone and spending money. If you are born here living on the street they couldn't care less. I have worked all my life since leaving school and for what, freeze in the winter.
Well considering this aid has been paid over for the last 60 years it doesn’t appear to have helped these third world countries to better their politics. That is why they come here for the freebies and an easy life instead of staying and sorting and out their own countries.
Charles Amos has just slandered me and millions of others. What an awful 'political commentator' - I could think of a better description for this nasty and heartless 'analysis'.
Make disability help based not money based alot of disability claims are fraudulent due to.the fact you can now claim it all for depression and anxiety welfare should not be money based its should be you get your rent council tax and gas and lecy paid for upto a certain amount and a supermarket voucher to buy your food for your family unto an amount that is fit to have balanced meals for everyone do it this way then people will work
@@KeithFLOOK-wd3uw Who's citizens spread propaganda and lies about the UK online by the millions and openly hate and despise Britain, they openly have a racist slur they get away with using openly online everywhere - "Britishers".
@@KeithFLOOK-wd3uw R. Sridharan India England had looted Trillions of Dollars when they colonized India. What you are contributing is not even peanuts and we don't even need it. Yet you have the gall to say this. We are the fastest growing economy of the world, much ahead of you. Karma is catching up with you.
Charles Amos, a very dangerous man indeed. I am paraplegic, unable to stand or walk. I have never wished my disability onto anyone until just now. Charles, I invite you to come and live my life for a month!
He's an example of the extreme end of libertarian thought. While I am a libertarian when it comes to the general principles of liberty and property rights and I object to high levels of taxation and government waste, Amos gives the philosophy a bad name - as does anyone who takes an extreme ideological view.
This entitled filthy rich public sector bozo couldn't live your life for a week. Talk about the entitled metropolitan elite in their ivory towers. I hope you are OK this winter.
government will be getting alot more money from 18-20 year old if they work for a company who pays them them £7.50 a hour coz i think in april 2025 they get around £12 hour like 21+ year olds so coz they be getting more money they pay more tax
The majority of elderly worked hard, paid TAX all their working lives and should be able to spend their money on whatever they CHOOSE! And the government already receives tax on cigarettes and alcohol. We should be looking after our pensioners in their golden years.
Die spul wat so praat oor ou mense moet net onthou huouers is ook oud!! Of praat hul ook so van hul familie se ouens???? Moet net nie vergeet nie JULLE GAAN OOK OUD WORD EN WAT JY VANDAG AAN DIE OUES VAN DAE DOEN GAAN JOU DUBBEL EN DWARS TREF!!!
Soros do not want us elderly . They want to depopulate our countries . We are a stain on society and we are awaste of space . Look up Geoge Soros and all the rest
I think MPs getting huge lunch allowances and rent for extra homes is more annoying. The media also full of propaganda inflate how much is spent on immigration.
17.1 million per day - a staggering £6.2 billion per year on illegal immigrants. Whilst our elderly many who fought for this country freeze while they doss in warm hotels.
Thats right. The gov't expect their service people to fight in a conflict. Service people should be given an outstanding pension for putting their lives at risk for king and country
Because they are the same party labour and the Tory’s you have all been fooled to think they aren’t. There in the W E F the Elites rule us . Start seeing through them . While they are on tv laughing and calling each other it’s a act .
winter fuel allowance was supposed to be temporary the one thing I dont understand why dont nobody talk about the big energy giants who should be reducing bill so there would be no need for the allowance in the first place.
Yea stop giving taxpayers cash to China, India, and other country's, with foreign aid, save that money plus mass donations to palistine, and best of all any cash on migrants...... Sorted now give the money to the pensioners.
Palestine receives peanuts like a few million, after Britain gave Palestine to Israel in 1948, it's Ukraine and Israel getting 10s of billions and 100s of thousands of them here to keep
People on benefits are not policed on what they spend their money on, why should pensioners, most use it to get basics, pay bills just as many of us do
Or you can just be a migrant and get - free housing, benefits, phones, gas, electric…..all paid for by our government!……yet our elderly have to “make a choice” ?!?
How in the world do we get rid of Starmer and his loony party., I’m 73 self employed and never been out of work since leaving school at 16, who the hell do these lunatics think they are taking money from us to look after migrants and overpaid train drivers.
Well he is the most honest politician out there, he actually ran on all this but morons were more interested in getting rid of the Tories but didn’t listen to what he was saying…although I didn’t really listen to much of him after he said “some woman have penises” but then when the election was coming I watched the debates and read what Labour and Starmer was running on, taking money away from Brits and send it to corrupt Zelensky and Ukraine ;-)
I am proud to say I DID NOT VOTE FOR STARMER OR ANY OF HIS YES MEN! A lot of blame for Starmer having no brains must go to those that voted Labour! We had the chance to vote for REFORM, a party that did not want asylums in our country! I voted for my local Reform man and I was shocked that most people voted for Labour! Hell slap it into all those mindless voters, you reap what you sow! Enjoy your outdoor fags! I honestly don’t think anyone that smokes will abide by that rule! A lot of bars and restaurants have outdoor smoking areas but that was put into place to encourage non smokers to enjoy they meal or drink! Businesses will begin to close! So what will brainless Starmer suggest to encourage people to go to pubs and restaurants? I must admit, when I go to a bar, it’s actually really good to have your meal without the smell of tobacco! I do hope all bars will tell Starmer where to go! They are not allowed to smoke indoors, now they may be asked not to smoke outside. If I smoked, I would tell Starmer to emigrate to where most of the Muslims come from!
That charles is a thick ass hole We paid into the system for years , with the promise of one day it will be your turn . Its on saying ban on pensions , if I had put that cash in a private pension things would be different , but that money was FORCIBLY taken off me , I had zero choice Frankly I would like to see him in a wheelchair to see how he coped
I don’t smoke or drink all money I’ve earned and now receive through my state pension gets spent on Fuel bills, rates, food, repairs - precious little left for replacing white goods, house repairs, clothes let’s laugh about the holidays 🤬
His views made me think of that excellent TV series ‘Man in the High Castle’ with his attitude towards people who couldn’t stand on their own two feet!
Yea that tash says it all. He actually said there should be no state pension. I swear to god society is reverting back to victorians times. The only power the people have is their number and be more like the French.
I was sick of working very hard for peanuts even with high qualifications so I went self employed and ran a transport company for 20 years until It would finally end because I could not get the rates to run and pay my men a decent wage. Oh I should have mentioned I retain my working class values - don't smoke or drink excess and now cannot afford a holiday in my retirement or heat my home.
I started work at 14 and had to stop working in 2021 due to ill health. I served in the Army for 18 years. So I worked for 50 years, never on benefits or any kind of handout. I have never smoked and never drank any significant amount and nothing for the last 25 years. How dare these greedy moronic politicians dare to constantly insult old people. We get accused of being baby boomers who have created all the ill in the world ! I have a small army pension and a small private pension both of which are taxed because my state pension is my non tax income limit. Starmer had a law just for him passed so he does not have to pay tax on his pension ! He is a disgusting, greedy person, like the rest of them. What has this country become ? Tbh I am glad I’ll soon be gone, this of course will make him and his party very happy ! Pensioners are surplus to their requirements
Tell me. Was the pension before the war sufficient for central air conditioning heated hourses, booze and cigarettes? No it wasn't... So why do you think it should be for you?
Morning!.... just want to say.. please ensure that you have a will in place....otherwise, when you pass away, the government will also just swallow up your money.....probate etc!. Xxxx
These people saying these things are definitely Not Intellectuals & seem to have NO Wisdom Their spending is irrational and out of control Pensioners do Not even have enough money to live comfortably So how can they have money to waste ??
No that not going happen either they are going tax hell out of the landlords as well, putting up rent and you be forced out because you can't afford the rent.
Actually it is £386 a day plus other expenses probably claimed for each of the 700 members of the house of lords, what just one member of the house of lords gets for a 5 day week amounts to more than 10 weeks of pension for someone on the old state pension, and as the house of lords is nothing more than a millionaires drinking club the payments they receive out of the GDP quite frankly is immoral, especially as the chancellor Rachel reeves considers it fiscal prudence to scrap the winter fuel payments for pensioners i would suggest she should be looking else where, I.E Payments to the 700 members of the house of lords, and also maybe should look at cancelling the free gratia payments to ex prime of £115,000 for life as not one of them needs it OR is worth it.
I do not understand why working people from the age of 18 until they retire do not accumulate wealth for their retirement. Going through life frittering one's wages away without a thought of one's coming old age is financial suicide. Even today, people bemoan the fact how hard up they are but they still seem to have the funds for takeaways, restaurant meals, holidays to Spain and weekend pub crawls.
This. If you don't have the foresight and discipline to consider (and thereby safeguard) your retirement years then that's on you. If you piss your money up against the wall, spend impulsively, and live "for now" without thinking of your future and then expect a handout, the problem is you.
Shame on whoever said this. I am 79 I don’t smoke and rarely drink. My husband and I worked and struggled financially to bring up our children and maintain a warm and loving home. I only worked when it fitted in with the children, which meant I now only receive a partial state pension and a very small NHS pension. My water/gas/electric/phone/Council tax have all gone up. How dare anyone say that I spend my pension on cigarettes and alcohol.
Except for the age difference this is more or less what I would have wrote. My husband passed away 10 years ago....he'd only drawn his pension for two years, I only get basic pension and a small private pension. I'm over the pension credit limit and I just manage. No thought has gone in to how single pensioners manage , we have the same fuel bills as a couple. I heat a small bungalow and the oil costs me about £700 a year. there is no gas in the village so no choice for changing to something else with the price of electric being high.
How dare that man say that pensioners spend money on leisure treats (holidays/alcohol/ wine etc) I worked for 37 years teaching in a special school and payed taxes all through. Now retired, do not drink and have never smoked, and have not had a holiday for 5 years!
@@susanbrown1090 but if you did like a drink or smoked did they tell you your pension would only be to buy essential food and keep warm in winter , lots thought they were going to travel and enjoy their retirement but it didn't turn out that way for a lot of them , and given that cigarettes are a fraction of the price in European countries it would be the tax on them that pushed the price up , so it's more the healthy lifestyle and keeping your money to pay the high energy costs and high food bills not to go on holidays or hobbles or home improvements that people thought they would be able to do , fair enough with the heating allowance but some of the homes were built for coal which is not the people's fault , maybe they should have put solar etc in everyone's homes instead of spending millions every day on other things if you know what I mean , I see this as more that labour are skint and looking for ways to pull in money ,
What a silly statement by this chap Charles. I am a pensioner. I neither smoke nor drink and also have not had a holiday for 14 years. Cut the ridiculous politicians large wages & bonuses, not the poor pensioners who always get picked on because they cannot fight back.
I'm a senior citizen, and I don't smoke or drink, nor do I have a social life. Stop sending billions out in foreign aid, and look after our poor people. There shouldn't be any poverty in the U K
Yes,stop foreign aid,along with the obscene amounts being spent on asylum seekers/migrants. Also the personal allowance should be increased to about £20,000. If the foreign aid was scrapped and the asylum benefits stopped this would go a long way to filling in the black hole, instead of penalising it's own proper British people. This Charles guy us talking absolute bilge,and is an absolute dipstick.
I feel more at ease being forced to relinquish 'the fruits of my labour' so that disabled British people can live comfortably, than sinking it into hotel rooms for economic migrants… or any of the other services that are laid on for them. If we need to choose to give up holidays and restaurants in our declining years, then the government should be making some better choices, too!
@@lillustpotion and all those who paid into the system for 50+years of their lives, can go to hell ?? but we’ll feed cloth and house illegal immigrants, what an upside down world we live in! Britain has gone to hell in a hand cart and for the next 5 years we’ll have to live with this crappy government who by the way only 36% of the population voted for !!!
You can see why the British are up in arms over immigrants when we the people who worked over 40 yrs payed out taxes have to struggle to heat our homes and eat cheaper food
That man in the middle is outrageous. Money that hardworking people paid into the state pension for years was treated as tax money instead of providing for their future. Many pensioners are really struggling to make ends meet.
Apparently he intends to tax older people more as "they benefitted from a better economy" which is outrageous. We struggled through bad economies too. Are they going to pay us back when they next have a boom and we're dead and gone?
The wife here. If Labour are wanting to make cuts to save money they need to start with allowances for MP's. No allowances for second homes , no travel allowance, no putting in extortionate expences for meals or light bulbs. My dad and his neighbour actually sat and discussed who is better off . Was it my dad who has a tiny pension and the old age pension or his lively neighbour who is on state pension and pension credited. Guess which it was. My dad will be even worse off now the winter allowance has been stopped (will be stopped) Lead by example mr Starmer we the tax payers pay your wage .
My God the Amount of folk who confess they've never smoked nor drank alcohol in Britain ! Best start now we are in for a bumpy ride it might help relax you all instead of all work and no play making Jack and Jill very dull !
There's more proof that our tax money is spent on cocaine by those that work in parliament. including the PMs private bathroom! Than there is OAP's using that money on anything other than heating. I would sooner give my tax money to the elderly, who have spent their life propping up the country. Than the next pay check to an out of touch MP, who does very little in the way of helping the country.
Why do mps😢need allowances most are already rich cant they pay on hugely i flated salaries yet expect rest of usto sit and freeze or choose to eat or not... my health s gone down and hoping wont be around
todays pensioners worked all their lives paid their taxes, unlike those that live off the state, it was a walk of shame to collect unemployment , life was very hard, I grew up with my parents working all hours god sent, pensioners deserve all the help they worked for giving this country the chances we have now have, may I also say I never had a holiday growing up, only the wealthy enjoyed that, it sickens me that the elderly are being punished for the failures over many years of our governments !
We had a week in a caravan every 2nd year, taken with my mum cos my dad couldn’t afford to take time off work. I suppose we did better than a lot of kids that were in my class at school, some didn’t even have a bathroom - just a stone sink in the kitchen, & shared an outside toilet with another family, & now it seems the occasional drink is too much for the price they paid having NOTHING as a kid. Does this prat realise where his big-mouth has just got him.
the shameless like Mr Amos don't know what '' community '' really means. To them it's a dog eat dog world of everything privatised. Let his wish come true, let police start charging him a fee to protect him, doctors charge him extortionate fees to keep him alive, and teachers refuse to teach children to equip them for the future, and he ends up with no pension. Do they not teach about the importance of community and a healthy level of socialism at the no doubt posh university he went to? Or do they think people should just exist to serve him just because he happened to be lucky enough to be born with all his limbs?
I am a 76 year old and I neither smoke or drink! I object to people thinking everyone is the same. I gratefully accept the winter fuel allowance which I use to put my heating on during the day and can keep it on longer!!
They've also worked all their lives, and contributed to Britain, one hell of a lot more, than any migrant. Pensioners should be doubted on nothing, and if our country, is in financial crisis (which it's not), we can't keep migrants at all; they're a burden, and have to go.
How Dare he!!!!!! Worked all my life from 15, and moved locations to further my carrier, and worked very hard. This is disgusting, just remember you will become older soon. No words left, insulting beyond words!!!!!!!!!!
How dare they make this disgraceful statement about pensioners….. don’t drink,I don’t smoke….unlike a lot of the buffoons in our government past and present
I am nursing my husband at home who is end stage Huntingtons disease . I have to have heating on 24/7, hospital bed , air mattress and turning mattress on 24/7 and a feeding pump !! Ending the winter fuel bill for us is devastating news and for the seriously sick at home , it shouldn’t be allowed ! Me caring for my husband is already saving the hospital a load of money !!
@@user-qz3ml9il6j Are you able to claim Attendance Allowance? My mother was able to claim it with the help of a council worker who visited my mum to assess her condition and do the paperwork for her. I believe AA is an allowance that’s not means tested and it opens up possibilities to claim other benefits might be worth chatting to the citizens advice bureau to see what your husband might be able to claim.
@@user-qz3ml9il6j Are you able to claim Attendance Allowance? My mother was able to claim it with the help of a council worker who visited my mum to assess her condition and do the paperwork for her. I believe Attendance Allowance is an allowance that’s not means tested and it opens up possibilities to claim other benefits might be worth chatting to the citizens advice bureau to see what your husband might be able to claim.
@@user-qz3ml9il6j Are you able to claim Attendance Allowance? My mother was able to claim it with the help of a council worker who visited my mum to assess her condition and do the paperwork for her.
As a pensioner, I don’t smoke and never had. I don’t drink alcohol and neither do all my pensioner friends and family. Let’s stop generalisation and attacking our financial security.
Its terrible now im 69 never smoked or don't drive my husband worked 51 years outdoors 6 days a week i work 47 years, we are working class , i respect my parents they worked so hard my mom brought up 7 children no benefits then , i could never have bregruged them anything u looked up to them and older generations i respected them ,but now im at old age i feel a burden a forgotten person treated like you are a nobody looked down upon, it's a terrible country we live in when the older generation are told not what we should or shouldn't do shame on you .
They are guilty of spreading misinformation under the online safety bill. My mum is a pensioner. She has never drank alcohol and gave up smoking 30 years ago. Jail them for 2 years IMMEDIATELY!
"People are not entitled to force other people to give up the fruits of their labour so they can go on holiday or they can have a pint of beer down the pub" - but people are forced to give up the fruits of their labour to fund people who have never worked, to fund the freeloaders arriving on our shores every day, who will have a nice warm bed and three meals a day at taxpayers' expense this winter. Most pensioners who now rely on the state pension didn't earn enough to pay into a private pension during their working lives, and then of course Gordon Brown stole from private pensions when he was Chancellor.
But you ran england on not overcrowding lovelly england not a invasion of forieners that destroyed england so now they want to freeze the english old people in reality that's what's going to happen I'd have them round my house with my wood fire and be kind to them and they can smoke and drink because we live in a free england I'm so glad I left no one would think about doing this 50 years ago
I've never smoked, and I can't drink because of a heart condition. I live from pension to pension. I won't qualify for winter fuel payment because I don't get pension credit, but I barely exist. Starner should be jailed for misinformation.
If Kier Snarker wants to fill his imaginary black hole, he should stop spending money on Foreign Aid; stop wasting £28 million on protecting Mosques and forget giving £84 million to African countries to persuade all these chancers and opportunists to stay in their own countries instead of coming here; and all these newly arrived men should consider what they are given in the way of housing, food etc, a loan to be paid back when they're working. If I can come up with answers why can't Snarker? And give the elderly their winter fuel allowance back.
I'm 79 years old I will miss out on the winter fuel payments but I would like to stress that I do not smoke or drink so to come out with that statement is absolutely ridiculous
I worked from 15 years oi age, how dare this person say such things its a disgrace. I cant afford luxuries or holidays bacause my council tax, and utility bills are too high. I resent that hotels and food, heating is all paid for by the government for people who arrive from the EU on boats, with no identity documents. There has been a huge increase in crime on our streets!
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Meanwhile King Charles has given him a pay rise…that amounts to 132 million!
I'm a pensioner and I don't go on holiday, my one day trip a year is through my lunch club. I don't smoke or drink. Even my other drinks are seldom anything other than boiled or cold water to make my tea and coffee last longer. I no longer buy new clothes, but buy from charity shops. I've sold most of my jewellery to pay fuel bills but last year spent many hours a day sitting with a fleece blanket and hot water bottle and went to bed before 9 am. This year I have reduced how often I shower and do laundry and may now have to cut down on how often I use my oven for cooking. This does impact on my health and mobility. The cuts to the fuel allowance will affect me very much. Are we to have no pleasure in life at all?
How can one man get it so wrong in such a short time frame he’s totally detached from reality. I am a pensioner and still have to work at 67 which means I will not qualify for the winter fuel payments. I really do not want to work at my age but have no choice. I believe they hit the people who they think will complain the least, it’s disgusting you give you many years of service for your country and get kicked in the teeth at the end😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡
I worked FOR 50 years as a nurse. I DONT DRINK OR SMOKE! IM SICK OF BEING SO INSULTED HAVING GIVEN 50 YEARS OF MY LIFE TO CARING FOR OTHERS!
I appreciate your service. Thank you. 💐.
Respect to you Janice !
@JaniceKing-dy6wc .....my sister in law was a nurse and dropped dead on the ward where she worked just 1 year before her retiral
We call this defimation or character, I also think it's up to us what we spend our money on, we've worked all I life for it. Sorry to hear about your sister in-law,
Well if Reform UK don't win in 2029 we will deserve what we get. The Cons/labour both take orders from the world Economic Forum known as the WEF. But sadly not many people know this.
Why give away £20b to climate control overseas, why not put this country first for a change?
And the wasted billions to Ukraine.
Because these people do not represent, nor have any interest in, countries, let alone this one.
and the milllions wasted on migrant freeloaders .
REFORM would have done that!
Stop out goings to overseas, or cut it too fill the whole charity starts at home. That man is looking down at poor people like a English lord looked at people back in the day. Seem that poor / disabled / British citizens who are trying to get a job as the low of the low. Sure looks like he from the 50’s.
This pensioner 80 yr old, has never smoked, nor drinks alcohol. My husband, 86 has Alzheimer’s and I’m his carer. We can no longer go on holiday and my pension is just above the government limit for the winter fuel allowance. I still find a little money for charities and help others. Thanks a bunch.
Bless you. Have you got in contact with Citizens Advice, Help The Aged, or other charities who will look at what you've got coming in and see if you're entitled to any more monies? They can be really helpful..You should be getting an extra allowance for your husband as he needs care. All the best.
Charities!. Give them nothing!
Where is the voice of age concern over the 30,000 deaths in care homes?
Where is the voice of the nspcc over child grapes?
Where is the voice of the British heart Foundation over all the young dying from the arm intervention? Where is the voice of the RSPCA over halal slaughter?
Give them nothing!
Only support local independent charities.
I neither smoked nor drank but like an Idiot saved hard for my ‘Old Age’. Because of doing that I GET NOTHING extra from the Government & even that, it seems, is too much for SOME people.
@@juliegwilliam8503 I do give to local charities but the only others are the Alzheimer’s Association & M.E. Assoc as I’m a sufferer, and the government only gives £1 per 250,000 sufferers for M.E. research. M.E. Has been around for over 40yrs but the shrinks have persuaded everyone that it’s all in your head. Believe me, it’s not. They give more to research for hair loss!
@@jwsuicides8095 the Alzheimer’s Association has been very helpful and my church.
The people he insults are:
- the now retired midwife, nurses, and doctors who helped him take his first breath
- the now retired teachers who taught him to read, write, and count
- the police officers and soldiers who kept him safe
- those who built his shelter to live in
- the farmers who worked tirelessly to put food on his plate
- the driver instructor who taught him to drive (or the drivers who drive him places)
- the council workers who sanitised the roads he lives on
I could go on and on.
Are they all undeserving of a dignified retirement, Mr Amos?
Could you have survived and taken on their jobs to sustain yourself on your own? I didn't think so. With your logic, Mr Amos, all those individuals should have the right to refuse you a service unless you pay the price they demand.
I'm a millennial who will probably never get to retire, but unlike you in your privileged little world, I understand the meaning of '' community '' and I don't blame older generations who only want the best for mine but are trapped as much as I am. Those retired or retiring were the ones who guided me through childhood - it's not always about money, Mr Amos!
That gormless prat is an insult to human beings
Well Said!!
No they aren’t, scrounger
Beautifully put, and as a pensioner I thank you for your supportive words 🙏🕊️
It isnt about money until you are asked to pay. Amos is right. Its theft. Go get a job ya lazy biatch
do you get it now,people? dont smoke,dont drink, dont eat junk food,dont complain about it, pay your taxes,and if you do complain youll end up in jail for it. what the hell has happened to your country? wake the hell up.
Yes both labour and the Tory’s are the same party there in the W E F the Elites rule us . Things are about to get a lot worse.
"You'll own nothing and be happy"!! 😉
@@bobbysmith855 WEF .
@@Jokerjaxs Of course!
The WEF have taken over
Hang on we paid National Insurance and Income Tax for Our Pension over 40 Years. And this Mug is telling us we cannot expect to have a Pint or a Holiday. We gave our Fruits of Labour to provide for the Generation of Pensioners before us. We also provided the majority of the Money on Education. And Sadly it Produced a prat like him
Well said bravo 👏
They want to control what you spend your own money on now . Commie control.
Ha ha ha
You seem to think you paid for 2 generations of pension. You only paid for your parents'.
Keep it up John . Love it.
I worked bloody hard 44 years, I don't smoke or drink but if I had the money to spend on smoking and drinking I've rather spend on keeping warm. Shame on you
I totally agree. I worked from 1966 to 2021, only the lock downs stopped me working at age 69. I dont smoke and drink very rarely but the standing charges on my energy bills are half of my energy costs as I live alone and in winter I am cold.
I did have a small private pension from a past employer, but I am paying tax on that. Pensioners cannot manage on their pensions and many live alone in rented accommodation. We will see more homeless pensioners this year and this idiot who thinks pensioners have spare cash, he needs a reality check.
Neither I or the wife smoke or drink much alcohol but are like many recieve just over the pension threshold so we lose out and like you I used the money to pay gas and electric bills. Notice they didn't and probably won't deduct even £5 a week of all these illegals which would have been better and more acceptable. Let's wait until he raises taxes and Luddenden to all those saying, " Well Pensioners don't need this fuel allowance anyway."
Like me we started on both via the N.A.F.F I .good old players duty free ,
You’ve done your bit over your working life. They are ripping you off & giving it to illegal immigrant costs…
Me too
I'm a pensioner. Worked all my life, paid taxes, still paying taxes. Don't smoke or drink. How dare you assume what we do. You are unbelievable !!!!!!
You must be one of the gooders
Unfortunately I know many that do,even bragging I'm going down the bookies then the pub.and actually tough as nails doesn't have the heating on much
If I want a smoke...if I want a pint..I will have one..and some pervert with hair on his upper lip ..obviously suffering from severe sexual problems..wont tell me what to do..I would say even your own family hates you.
@@romystumpy1197 What do you call "many". I would state that I know "many" who do not drink or smoke, including myself, who has never smoked, and just have half a glass of wine at Christmas and special occasions. Has this guy had a lobotomy because he sounds as though he has mental health issues?
Why not …do what they want to do …I don’t smoke or drink but I don’t want to stop any one do what they want ..
this is a most wicked comment . 1. I have never ever smoked .2 I have never taken Alcohol. I worked from age 15 years for an employer who did not have a pension scheme. I have not ever had a proper holiday since age 7 years & that was only a few days at my local seaside resort. The pensioner haters who think we do not need the winter fuel allowance should be brought before the courts and punished . We did try to save for retirement but there was no minimum wage, long hours & only one weeks paid leave (it did go up to two weeks ) there was still some food rationing . very high unemployment & much higher interest payments than any recent ones. Those who hate pensioners so much need to be dealt with as a hate crime. & made to see reality ! One day they will be old !
They forget that cheap foreign labour kept wages down for working class people. The people who often didn't have good company pensions or who couldn't afford to pay into a scheme so are dependent upon their state pension. I'm as angry as you are.
@@jenniferjenkins1341 Thanks
@@user-cv3wx3cn4n how about putting them on a Pension wage for a year and see how many holidays, restaurants, smoking and drinking they do.
@@jenniferjenkins1341 45 years full time working and was forced to pay into a Government Pension, now I have to survive on half the national average salary. If I'd had a choice I could have invested in a private pension and would be living the good life, but I wasn't in a position to have an additional pension.
Sixty and over has become The Disposable Generation. Toss us aside as Moustache Boy woud like to do.
What about MPs claiming heating for their second homes!!! I'm a pensioner I neither drink or smoke but I am getting more and more afraid of this government. Tyrants 😡
Interesting how "journalists are no longer digging into political scandal and expenses padding.
I’m sick of privileged middle class hypocrites thinking they speak for the working class
I know exactly what you mean.
Just ignore him ..he looks like a 1950 school teacher.
Hadenough of it from the Tories and near Tories over the last 40 years. Don't need it or expect it from the Labour party
I wasn't privileged. Grew up in the hard knock school of life, Popeye. Got off my skinny arse and grafted and made something of myself. I am not privileged so go get fuck÷d.
Direct your ire to the UPPER CLASS! It's YOU who's the problem otherwise, you knob! The MIDDLE CLASS are the lot stuck in the middle, getting sod all from the Gov and paying for the feckless morons and the "can't be bothered to work" lot. Which are you?!
Anyone who voted for Labour, You are now going to pay for it.
I didn't.
Unfortunately we will be paying for it too.
Virtue signalling do you think people are that stupid if they had a crystal ball they wouldn't have
Not did I
You will pay for it too.
But so are those who didn't.
How dare you. I dont smoke or drink alcohol and have not had a holiday for the last 10 years. This is exactly what is wrong with todays politics . Stop the winter fuel allowances but let the privileged politicians claim heating allowances on their second homes. Why are you so surprised that such a large percent of the populace have no respect for you.
That guy should be made to sit down and read these comments out aloud to a panel of disadvantaged pensioners
Wow, Wow, Wow
First that man accuses pensioners are liars and the he says they should lose their pension for being dishonest
@@seewhatifound some of us can still pack a good punch !
@@seewhatifound Hasn't he already explained that they are merely liars in any case?
WHO DID YOU VOTE FOR?
Westminster has a bar and a restaurant which is subsidised by the taxpayers so that members of Parliament can have cheap meals and alcohol .
Labour MPs are shameless hypocrites, taking all the freebies and subsidies with one hand and pushing more and more pensioners below the poverty line who don't qualify for pension credits. Shame on this government.
Well when you're on £80k plus per year, you need subsidised meals and booze.
He wasn't asked, but I'm guessing he wouldn't agree with that either.
They also have a smoking room INSIDE the building!!
WTF??? That is outrageous 🤬🤬
So, let me get this straight. No money for pensions, or disabled etc, but, lots for illegal immigrants. Yep! sounds like a Labour boffin to me.
What illegal immigrants? Do mean asylum seekers, because they are here LEGALLY. Under the 1951 UN Refugee Convention (of which the UK is a signatory) anyone entering a country to claim asylum BY ANY MEANS does so legally. Only if they are assessed and refused asylum do they become illegal immigrants and they are deported.
It's time you right wing idiots learned some law.
I'm not sure that Amos is actually a Labour apparatchik. I looked him up, and he is described as "an English individualist writer with particular interests in Paternalism and Rights theory." He is firmly opposed to Redistributive taxation. Quite interesting that Labour's first move should be something Amos approves of.
Plenty of money to pay MPS allowances though. Funny he didn't mention that hey!
Yeah, all these problems that have appeared in the last 2 months...you're being wilfully ignorant...
Charles looks a wrong en
How can anyone say the pensioners 'don't need' and to excuse them of lying when they say its heating or eating. How dare they accuse them of wasting money on cigarettes and alcohol. This man needs to be put in their position for a year and then come back and see if he feels the same. This man is a disgrace and should be ashamed of himself.
Shame is absent from all people with political associations. Along with morals.
I worked for 50 years to get my pension, I don't smoke or drink, I now have blood cancer. I need to keep warm this winter, how insulting!
Disgusting isn't it.
I'm the same only I have bad circulation and prostate cancer
Hopefully you can apply for attendance allowance.
When we get old most become infirm and need extra warmth.
Now they are putting up the energy bills. Evil man. Needs to get his facts straight.
God Bless 🙌 Praying all goes well for you. 🤞✌🏻
If you worked hard and paid into your private pension then you have nout to complain about - what the fuck were you expecting? To live forever?
WOW WE NEED TO GET RID OF THE MIGRANTS AND SAVE MILLIONS OF POUNDS PER DAY .WE HAVE HIT ROCK BOTTOM IF WE CANT SUPPORT OUR PENSIONERS AND VETERANS AND HOMELESS AND THE DISABLED.
Starmer is gifting thousands of immigrants the right to the top of the health and housing free glasses, teeth and health plus housing without contributing 1p … that is Wrong
You don't need a diploma to work out we need to stop paying for illegal immigrants.then the government could help out our homeless.
We've always money for illegals but not the British people shame on you Starmer
How can that man in the middle have the audacity to say pensioners shouldn't smoke drink or holiday they have worked all their lives and paid tax and stamps for years tell all the MPs they can't do it and take their allowance for second homes off them
Totally agree with you on that
Charles Amos is outrageous. And totally out of touch. Infuriating to listen to
Unfortunately they are way too common in soceity. They are aloof and they disappear into their ivory towers. They are the types of people you put on the list to avoid, as they suck the energy out of the room.
Charles, no one is above me excepting God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit, no one is beneath me. We are all equal. We came into the world without anything and we leave it without anything.
I met your pompous brothers and sisters at university and I was not popular, however, that didn’t matter. Black is black and white is white, there are no grey areas. We have the workers who are no less important and maybe more important than The pompous type of person you are.
You undervalued the working man/woman in the late 70’s, imported cheap labour and threw your own countrymen on the scrap heap.
You took away all the industrial employment, farm work, you name it , you took it and left your fellow man with no replacement.nAll for your own greed.
Now you complain because they do not have high pensions, and need certain top ups eg., heating allowance, pension credit.
That disgusting person sitting next to you doesn’t even want the sick and disabled to have any benefits.
There was an Austrian man in history, that thought the poor, disabled, mentally ill etc., were a waste of oxygen. He had an idea, which looks like be revisited to solve the problem.
Empathy is sorely lacking in today Britain and it lacking from the top down.
I voted reform, I worked and have a pension, do not smoke nor do I drink, however, the wear and tear from jobs that I did have effected my joints and circulation, I require extra heating or I find it hard to be mobile.
Yes, I did manual work and enjoyed it. I also worked in two professional vocations. Snobbery, I could not stand.
I speak to anyone, regardless of their “ perceived class”. As I said, no one is above me and no one is beneath me
…….. and Charles Amos is also a blithering bloody idiot with no pride or social conscience, and is probably also semiliterate. Who allowed someone like that an opinion?
he's great to listen to I am sick of pensioners who do have money and living in empty four bedroom houses mourning about money
@@sil_ww Tell me you are envious, without telling me you are envious. They worked hard and people like you voted for politicions who creates inflation with their disastrous policies.
State pension is nit a benefit, it's already been paid for!
This is not true; it is a benefit. Pensioners are a net drain on the welfare state over the course of their lives. Google it if you know how
That man in the glasses
He has just accused pensioners of being liars. How arrogant can you be
He needs better glasses !!
He’s everything that’s wrong with the UK.
He’s A Hypocrite And A Clown 🤡 Who Thinks He Knows Everything And Doesn’t Know Anything About Anything But Rubbish.
He has insulted most sections of society over the years...He said that women are not socially or economically equal to men for instance, and that it is ok to make racist remarks
A disgusting man … why don’t labour mp s take less WAGES
Stop spending it on all the bloody immigrants then.
FOR I CONCUR !
Illegal immigrants...
they can't, they might get chilly
They are dressed in the nicest cloths when I pass them on the way to work in a red hot steel forge. All wondering about with nothing to do.
Totally agree and stop the net zero aid for foreign country's £10 billion+. I'm sick of governments wasting our tax money
What a vile vile guest Charles is.
Couldn't agree more he's a very evil man talking absolute 💩
Absolute horror.
He is a classic example of the nasty Labour Party.
@@user-bs9nq3zl2lAgree , the real nasty party . And he no doubts think nobody should enjoy anything in later life . Proper communist .
Looks a bit like Butterworth,says it all
How dare he say pensioners smoke and drink, horrible man
87-year-old, don't drink or smoke. Winter heating allowance for pensioners scrapped to help pay the billions spent on immigrants, immigrants who have never paid a bent penny into the system. Sounds fair🙃
And many of whom refuse to work or even bother to learn the language yet still get to keep their benefits paid for by the people already living here
I hope you've got a library you can use to keep warm if needed Barrie? Take extra care.
I get what your saying and you have a valid point, except immigrants themselves don't get anything, its people who have achieved asylum who will be entitled to housing and benefits without having paid in the pot, not immigrants, immigrants have to stand on their own feet, and have paid into the pot like everyone else, illegal migrants, also get zero because their here illegally and will have no access to public funds, they must work in jobs unannounced to fund their lives, diagnose the issue properly, or you end up looking stupid and no one will listen, if you say look we have a problem in our country, we need to limit the amount of people coming here seeking asylum as we currently cannot look after our own, then this is a valid conversation, we do not have the resources to stretch to help everyone. This holds some truth, we had over 200,000 Ukrainians come to the uk, getting benefits, housing and bus passes, whilst british people, including the children of second generation immigrants, who do work and pay into the pot, have to wait sometimes over a decade for housing, and why has this happened? because of our countries politics, we didn't have a hand in what has happened in Ukraine, and russia did create a humanitarian pathway for Ukrainians to leave, should have gone to poland who have much more space then we do, and we shortly have a better economy then we do.
WHO DID YOU VOTE FOR?
I’d sit on a bus to keep warm this winter but I guess my bus pass will be gone as well
How dare Mr Amos say pensioners spend all that money on restaurants, holidays, alcohol and cigarettes! I have never smoked, never drunk alcohol, never gone to restaurants, and my last holiday was about forty years ago when my children were small and I took them camping. I'm 74, and have to count every penny. Mr Amos is an example of how blind people with power are.
If you haven’t had a holiday for all that time? What the heck have you been doing with your time? Didn’t you work to earn money? Did you just waste if?
That's why he only has.
138 followers on facebook
I can't even pay for a cup of coffee in a cafe while out shopping, who is this idiot Amis?
How right. these Pensioner haters should be brought before the courts for hate crime.
Hence the bottle bottoms and the poncy tash...
What a dispicable person who has insulted many pensioners!
And the British puplic
IS IT A GENOCIDAL ATTEMTED MURDER , ? THIS GREEN BERET DOES FIND IT SO , ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS GET FREE HOTEL HOUSING AND FREE ELECTRIC DO THEY NOT I QUESTION .
He's just aggrieved because he has to pay supertax. People like him have never had to make do.
If you come over in a rubber boat they put you in a hotel, give them a phone and spending money.
If you are born here living on the street they couldn't care less.
I have worked all my life since leaving school and for what, freeze in the winter.
Why do we not cut the billions we hand over to other countries in foreign aid.
As well as mps ridiculous expenses
Well considering this aid has been paid over for the last 60 years it doesn’t appear to have helped these third world countries to better their politics. That is why they come here for the freebies and an easy life instead of staying and sorting and out their own countries.
If Sweden can do it. So can the rest of the world. Look after your own people.
I don't smoke or drink and neither do most of my pensioner friends. Vile assumption!!!
HE'S MENTALLY ILL.
No one can afford it - its wrong
So what if they did smoke and drink??? Smoking and drinking has happened for centuries
A vile assumption from a vile person.
This guy is an absolute prat. He is talking so much shite. We paid for our state pensions whilst working for over 40 years. He needs a reality check.
Charles Amos has just slandered me and millions of others. What an awful 'political commentator' - I could think of a better description for this nasty and heartless 'analysis'.
Isn't he awful
its deformation of charter and illegal
He can share his money out if he wants to.😡
So can I , It's a caber thrower.
Didn't he used to do a COMEDY SHOW with a FELLA called ANDY 😎😎😎😎😂😂😂
I believe his father was a tool maker and classed him as the worst tool he ever made
I was quite amazed by what charles amos said. If it was up to him, then disabled people would be left to starve to death. What a cruel person.
Ebeneezer Amos the spirit of Christmas to come. Bah! Humbug!
Make disability help based not money based alot of disability claims are fraudulent due to.the fact you can now claim it all for depression and anxiety welfare should not be money based its should be you get your rent council tax and gas and lecy paid for upto a certain amount and a supermarket voucher to buy your food for your family unto an amount that is fit to have balanced meals for everyone do it this way then people will work
Again. They think/believe us to be stupid. And if there is no push back, well then we are.
@@SmallPaul. some people are genuinely unable to work and are definitely not making fraudulent claims.
But that's what they want! It's called thinng out the herd, sounds familiar Boris anyone?
We are scrimping in this country but throw money away round the world. Stop the bloody aid scam and net zero nonsense
@bbuzz1687 we also send a lot of money to India, a country that is richer than the UK with a higher GDP
@@bbuzz1687billions in fact.
Yes money for favours.
@@KeithFLOOK-wd3uw Who's citizens spread propaganda and lies about the UK online by the millions and openly hate and despise Britain, they openly have a racist slur they get away with using openly online everywhere - "Britishers".
@@KeithFLOOK-wd3uw
R. Sridharan India
England had looted Trillions of Dollars when they colonized India. What you are contributing is not even peanuts and we don't even need it. Yet you have the gall to say this.
We are the fastest growing economy of the world, much ahead of you. Karma is catching up with you.
Charles Amos, a very dangerous man indeed. I am paraplegic, unable to stand or walk. I have never wished my disability onto anyone until just now. Charles, I invite you to come and live my life for a month!
Well said Daniel 👏.
He's an example of the extreme end of libertarian thought. While I am a libertarian when it comes to the general principles of liberty and property rights and I object to high levels of taxation and government waste, Amos gives the philosophy a bad name - as does anyone who takes an extreme ideological view.
This entitled filthy rich public sector bozo couldn't live your life for a week. Talk about the entitled metropolitan elite in their ivory towers. I hope you are OK this winter.
WHAT a pratt! Disgusting...... absolutely Disgusting!
You are quite right Daniel I quite agree with you.
But, £3 Billion a year just been pledged to Ukraine, ''for as long as it takes he says''
Wow telling the elderly they are wasting money, unbelievable
EASY TARGETS
government will be getting alot more money from 18-20 year old if they work for a company who pays them them £7.50 a hour coz i think in april 2025 they get around £12 hour like 21+ year olds so coz they be getting more money they pay more tax
Yes, can't strike. !@@michaelfraser5723
The audacity! 😂
Set of pillocks if you Dont drink or smoke or go on holiday what can we cut back on fresh air .
The majority of elderly worked hard, paid TAX all their working lives and should be able to spend their money on whatever they CHOOSE! And the government already receives tax on cigarettes and alcohol. We should be looking after our pensioners in their golden years.
That's a good point. That should have been included in the questioning
Die spul wat so praat oor ou mense moet net onthou huouers is ook oud!! Of praat hul ook so van hul familie se ouens???? Moet net nie vergeet nie JULLE GAAN OOK OUD WORD EN WAT JY VANDAG AAN DIE OUES VAN DAE DOEN GAAN JOU DUBBEL EN DWARS TREF!!!
So we have untold billions to throw away on immigrants but not enough to spend on keeping our elderly comfortable???
.........and train drivers who will be on around £69,000. 🚂. 🚂
Untold money to fund and arm isreal and ukrain....but not look after the elderly some of who fought for all the privlages these politicians have
Soros do not want us elderly . They want to depopulate our countries . We are a stain on society and we are awaste of space . Look up Geoge Soros and all the rest
I think MPs getting huge lunch allowances and rent for extra homes is more annoying.
The media also full of propaganda inflate how much is spent on immigration.
And wars in other countries we have no business supporting!!
17.1 million per day - a staggering £6.2 billion per year on illegal immigrants. Whilst our elderly many who fought for this country freeze while they doss in warm hotels.
Thats right. The gov't expect their service people to fight in a conflict. Service people should be given an outstanding pension for putting their lives at risk for king and country
Starmer went crazy 3 months ago when Tories said about stopping winter allowance, now he did it before anything else, 🙄
Yeah cause he wanted to do it, total B
Yes! That is a typical Backstabbing Labour Act. I have Never, and will Never vote for a labour Government. Liars All.
Because they are the same party labour and the Tory’s you have all been fooled to think they aren’t. There in the W E F the Elites rule us . Start seeing through them . While they are on tv laughing and calling each other it’s a act .
Shameless hypocrite Starmer
winter fuel allowance was supposed to be temporary the one thing I dont understand why dont nobody talk about the big energy giants who should be reducing bill so there would be no need for the allowance in the first place.
I'm sure pensioners would happily live off their own money if Labour refunded them the life-time of taxes they've paid in to the system.
Yes 👍
With interest of course!
@@iamrocketray naturally!
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Stop sending Billions to other countries.
Smearing the old folk what a callous tyrant!
The fool in the middle is a total w⚓️
He looks like a 1980s contestant from the game show bullseye😂
Does he have elderly relatives?
@@davidpost6902 No, he sold them for a cheap suit and some Austin Powers spectacles.
100%
@@peterchapman1591😂😂😂
Yea stop giving taxpayers cash to China, India, and other country's, with foreign aid, save that money plus mass donations to palistine, and best of all any cash on migrants...... Sorted now give the money to the pensioners.
We cannot send probes and rockets to the moon. But we are sending money/aid to countries that can.
Stop paying 12 billion pounds on illegal immigrants, and that prat is the reason I stopped voting labour
Palestine receives peanuts like a few million, after Britain gave Palestine to Israel in 1948, it's Ukraine and Israel getting 10s of billions and 100s of thousands of them here to keep
India never did ask the u k for foreign aid ??? 😂
No body gives aid to other countries without something in return be it deals ,low price food or selling arms to them for aid
At least the pensioners put money back into the tax funds unlike the rich who dodge paying their fair whack .
And the illegals don't pay a thing
Time to cut overseas aid billions given to many countries while UK pensioner go cold and probably may end up having to go to hospital because of it .
The elderly can spend their money on whatever they want. They've worked/contributed all their lives.
Yea if they want to go cold let them go cold
...are you really saying that they (some) are justified in spending money on booze and cigarettes and as such we should subsidize their heating costs?
People on benefits are not policed on what they spend their money on, why should pensioners, most use it to get basics, pay bills just as many of us do
Or you can just be a migrant and get - free housing, benefits, phones, gas, electric…..all paid for by our government!……yet our elderly have to “make a choice” ?!?
@@scottcook2643 YES.
How in the world do we get rid of Starmer and his loony party., I’m 73 self employed and never been out of work since leaving school at 16, who the hell do these lunatics think they are taking money from us to look after migrants and overpaid train drivers.
Well he is the most honest politician out there, he actually ran on all this but morons were more interested in getting rid of the Tories but didn’t listen to what he was saying…although I didn’t really listen to much of him after he said “some woman have penises” but then when the election was coming I watched the debates and read what Labour and Starmer was running on, taking money away from Brits and send it to corrupt Zelensky and Ukraine ;-)
Exactly your right
Totally right. My husband is 72 and still working and is thinking he will have to until the day he dies
Unbelievable isn't it
I am proud to say I DID NOT VOTE FOR STARMER OR ANY OF HIS YES MEN! A lot of blame for Starmer having no brains must go to those that voted Labour! We had the chance to vote for REFORM, a party that did not want asylums in our country! I voted for my local Reform man and I was shocked that most people voted for Labour! Hell slap it into all those mindless voters, you reap what you sow! Enjoy your outdoor fags! I honestly don’t think anyone that smokes will abide by that rule! A lot of bars and restaurants have outdoor smoking areas but that was put into place to encourage non smokers to enjoy they meal or drink! Businesses will begin to close! So what will brainless Starmer suggest to encourage people to go to pubs and restaurants? I must admit, when I go to a bar, it’s actually really good to have your meal without the smell of tobacco! I do hope all bars will tell Starmer where to go! They are not allowed to smoke indoors, now they may be asked not to smoke outside. If I smoked, I would tell Starmer to emigrate to where most of the Muslims come from!
I dont smoke or drink. Bloody tyrant.
- can't even afford a holiday.
Same here. Haven't had a drop of alcohol for forty odd years and did smoke a little a very long time ago.
Or gamble, not even the lottery.
Neither do I or my wife.
That charles is a thick ass hole
We paid into the system for years , with the promise of one day it
will be your turn . Its on saying ban on pensions , if I had put that cash in a
private pension things would be different , but that money was FORCIBLY
taken off me , I had zero choice
Frankly I would like to see him in a wheelchair to see how he coped
I don’t smoke or drink all money I’ve earned and now receive through my state pension gets spent on Fuel bills, rates, food, repairs - precious little left for replacing white goods, house repairs, clothes let’s laugh about the holidays 🤬
70’s sitcom man in the middle is completely out of touch and talking out of his a*se !!
😂😂😂😂😂
His views made me think of that excellent TV series ‘Man in the High Castle’ with his attitude towards people who couldn’t stand on their own two feet!
Yes. What is it with his visual presentation? No one in the last 50 years would chose to look like that.
@@jwsuicides8095Agree, very strange way to dress, even his moustache and glasses were period correct !
Yea that tash says it all. He actually said there should be no state pension. I swear to god society is reverting back to victorians times. The only power the people have is their number and be more like the French.
That’s a disgusting slur! I worked from 15 to 68 never smoked rarely drink. Never claimed benefits. I Worked damn hard. What an INSULT.
i quiet agree
I was sick of working very hard for peanuts even with high qualifications so I went self employed and ran a transport company for 20 years until It would finally end because I could not get the rates to run and pay my men a decent wage. Oh I should have mentioned I retain my working class values - don't smoke or drink excess and now cannot afford a holiday in my retirement or heat my home.
@@Cruner62 😥😢
I started work at 14 and had to stop working in 2021 due to ill health. I served in the Army for 18 years. So I worked for 50 years, never on benefits or any kind of handout. I have never smoked and never drank any significant amount and nothing for the last 25 years. How dare these greedy moronic politicians dare to constantly insult old people. We get accused of being baby boomers who have created all the ill in the world ! I have a small army pension and a small private pension both of which are taxed because my state pension is my non tax income limit. Starmer had a law just for him passed so he does not have to pay tax on his pension ! He is a disgusting, greedy person, like the rest of them. What has this country become ? Tbh I am glad I’ll soon be gone, this of course will make him and his party very happy ! Pensioners are surplus to their requirements
Tell me. Was the pension before the war sufficient for central air conditioning heated hourses, booze and cigarettes? No it wasn't... So why do you think it should be for you?
Morning!.... just want to say.. please ensure that you have a will in place....otherwise, when you pass away, the government will also just swallow up your money.....probate etc!. Xxxx
Veterans deserve to be an exception to this new winter fuel allowance rule,as they have served their country.
@@raed3620 wow, you are a special kind of moron. Keep crying soft lad.
@@raed3620which war are you talking about?
These people saying these things are definitely Not Intellectuals & seem to have NO Wisdom
Their spending is irrational and out of control Pensioners do Not even have enough money to live comfortably So how can they have money to waste ??
Just give each pensioner the £350 that is paid to House of Lords participants on a Daily basis.
No that not going happen either they are going tax hell out of the landlords as well, putting up rent and you be forced out because you can't afford the rent.
And as you are stepping out the unwanted will be stepping in. @@realmwatters2977
Actually it is £386 a day plus other expenses probably claimed for each of the 700 members of the house of lords, what just one member of the house of lords gets for a 5 day week amounts to more than 10 weeks of pension for someone on the old state pension, and as the house of lords is nothing more than a millionaires drinking club the payments they receive out of the GDP quite frankly is immoral, especially as the chancellor Rachel reeves considers it fiscal prudence to scrap the winter fuel payments for pensioners i would suggest she should be looking else where, I.E Payments to the 700 members of the house of lords, and also maybe should look at cancelling the free gratia payments to ex prime of £115,000 for life as not one of them needs it OR is worth it.
Is that per day.....yes please?
Spot on!
British pensioners are among the poorest in Europe...simple.
I do not understand why working people from the age of 18 until they retire do not accumulate wealth for their retirement. Going through life frittering one's wages away without a thought of one's coming old age is financial suicide. Even today, people bemoan the fact how hard up they are but they still seem to have the funds for takeaways, restaurant meals, holidays to Spain and weekend pub crawls.
When one uses the word "one" to describe themselves, you automatically know that they are upper middle class at least.
This.
If you don't have the foresight and discipline to consider (and thereby safeguard) your retirement years then that's on you. If you piss your money up against the wall, spend impulsively, and live "for now" without thinking of your future and then expect a handout, the problem is you.
Shame on whoever said this. I am 79 I don’t smoke and rarely drink. My husband and I worked and struggled financially to bring up our children and maintain a warm and loving home. I only worked when it fitted in with the children, which meant I now only receive a partial state pension and a very small NHS pension. My water/gas/electric/phone/Council tax have all gone up. How dare anyone say that I spend my pension on cigarettes and alcohol.
Exactly the same as our situation
Except for the age difference this is more or less what I would have wrote. My husband passed away 10 years ago....he'd only drawn his pension for two years, I only get basic pension and a small private pension. I'm over the pension credit limit and I just manage. No thought has gone in to how single pensioners manage , we have the same fuel bills as a couple. I heat a small bungalow and the oil costs me about £700 a year. there is no gas in the village so no choice for changing to something else with the price of electric being high.
WHO.DID.YOU.VOTE.FOR?
How dare that man say that pensioners spend money on leisure treats (holidays/alcohol/ wine etc) I worked for 37 years teaching in a special school and payed taxes all through. Now retired, do not drink and have never smoked, and have not had a holiday for 5 years!
@@susanbrown1090 but if you did like a drink or smoked did they tell you your pension would only be to buy essential food and keep warm in winter , lots thought they were going to travel and enjoy their retirement but it didn't turn out that way for a lot of them , and given that cigarettes are a fraction of the price in European countries it would be the tax on them that pushed the price up , so it's more the healthy lifestyle and keeping your money to pay the high energy costs and high food bills not to go on holidays or hobbles or home improvements that people thought they would be able to do , fair enough with the heating allowance but some of the homes were built for coal which is not the people's fault , maybe they should have put solar etc in everyone's homes instead of spending millions every day on other things if you know what I mean , I see this as more that labour are skint and looking for ways to pull in money ,
What a silly statement by this chap Charles. I am a pensioner. I neither smoke nor drink and also have not had a holiday for 14 years. Cut the ridiculous politicians large wages & bonuses, not the poor pensioners who always get picked on because they cannot fight back.
Even if this were true I'd rather spend the money on keeping our pubs and Newsagents open than housing illegal immigrants.
I'm a senior citizen, and I don't smoke or drink, nor do I have a social life. Stop sending billions out in foreign aid, and look after our poor people. There shouldn't be any poverty in the U K
1000% WITH YOU.
Yes,stop foreign aid,along with the obscene amounts being spent on asylum seekers/migrants.
Also the personal allowance should be increased to about £20,000.
If the foreign aid was scrapped and the asylum benefits stopped this would go a long way to filling in the black hole, instead of penalising it's own proper British people.
This Charles guy us talking absolute bilge,and is an absolute dipstick.
Youre not wrong pledging 3 billion t o ukraine alone a year and the same week pulled the rug from the pensioners
Pensioners are despised in this country. If these sorts of comments were made against any other group there would be uproar.
nah....I'm DISABLED....everybody hates the DISABLED....
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I KNOW.....I AM ONE....
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I KNOW.....I AM ONE....
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I KNOW....I AM ONE....
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I believe that all the other Labour MPs should grow some balls and have a vote to question the policies of this man and his competence for the job
Visit migrant hotels..all smokeing and drinking.and paid nothing in
Bang on
This man is a stupid idiot. When people have worked all their lives. They must not go on holiday or to restaurants. Jig on.
I was going to say the same. Don't forget the anti-social behaviour when they get into fights after getting drunk. Plus all the littering.
Every single one them! Always standing outside, stinking the place up with w33d.
Very true
Stop giving all our money away to other countries
And we are not wasting 8 million a day on illegal immigrants a day
10 mill
15 mill!
and operation scatter will increase it even more
Exactly- how dare they!!!!!! 🤬
Now Now you can't say that Starmer would not approve He simply adores the immigrants
I feel more at ease being forced to relinquish 'the fruits of my labour' so that disabled British people can live comfortably, than sinking it into hotel rooms for economic migrants… or any of the other services that are laid on for them. If we need to choose to give up holidays and restaurants in our declining years, then the government should be making some better choices, too!
Is he really calling pensioners liars, put him in a roomful of pensioners and let him say that again !😡😡
It probably wouldn’t need many just one or two.
Y’all are pure liars that’s why!!! Not being as comfortable as you’d like is not the same as not being able to afford it. Sorry!
Discrimination.
The state has a responsibility legally to support the vulnerable in our society.
@@lillustpotion and all those who paid into the system for 50+years of their lives, can go to hell ?? but we’ll feed cloth and house illegal immigrants, what an upside down world we live in! Britain has gone to hell in a hand cart and for the next 5 years we’ll have to live with this crappy government who by the way only 36% of the population voted for !!!
But it’s OK to throw MONEY AT IMMIGRANTS THAT DRINK AND SMOKE!!!!!!
and public sector workers who didn't lose a penny in lockdown and who think they public now serve them.
Yes and buy drugs. Two tier benefits
So true!!
And take drugs!
You can see why the British are up in arms over immigrants when we the people who worked over 40 yrs payed out taxes have to struggle to heat our homes and eat cheaper food
That man in the middle is outrageous. Money that hardworking people paid into the state pension for years was treated as tax money instead of providing for their future. Many pensioners are really struggling to make ends meet.
Apparently he intends to tax older people more as "they benefitted from a better economy" which is outrageous. We struggled through bad economies too. Are they going to pay us back when they next have a boom and we're dead and gone?
He's a monster.
It's a pity Labour got in, In five years time let's vote them out if we are still around.
The wife here.
If Labour are wanting to make cuts to save money they need to start with allowances for MP's. No allowances for second homes , no travel allowance, no putting in extortionate expences for meals or light bulbs. My dad and his neighbour actually sat and discussed who is better off . Was it my dad who has a tiny pension and the old age pension or his lively neighbour who is on state pension and pension credited. Guess which it was. My dad will be even worse off now the winter allowance has been stopped (will be stopped) Lead by example mr Starmer we the tax payers pay your wage .
Exactly!
My God the Amount of folk who confess they've never smoked nor drank alcohol in Britain ! Best start now we are in for a bumpy ride it might help relax you all instead of all work and no play making Jack and Jill very dull !
Very well said.
Absolutely
Absolutely 💯.
There's more proof that our tax money is spent on cocaine by those that work in parliament. including the PMs private bathroom! Than there is OAP's using that money on anything other than heating.
I would sooner give my tax money to the elderly, who have spent their life propping up the country. Than the next pay check to an out of touch MP, who does very little in the way of helping the country.
Not to mention ill eagles who get everything plus pocket money 😮
Out of touch isn't harsh enough
Why do mps😢need allowances most are already rich cant they pay on hugely i flated salaries yet expect rest of usto sit and freeze or choose to eat or not... my health s gone down and hoping wont be around
The State Pension wouldn't keep anyone in Cigarettes and Alcohol for a Month.
todays pensioners worked all their lives paid their taxes, unlike those that live off the state, it was a walk of shame to collect unemployment , life was very hard, I grew up with my parents working all hours god sent, pensioners deserve all the help they worked for giving this country the chances we have now have, may I also say I never had a holiday growing up, only the wealthy enjoyed that, it sickens me that the elderly are being punished for the failures over many years of our governments !
Here here 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Spot on
We had a week in a caravan every 2nd year, taken with my mum cos my dad couldn’t afford to take time off work. I suppose we did better than a lot of kids that were in my class at school, some didn’t even have a bathroom - just a stone sink in the kitchen, & shared an outside toilet with another family, & now it seems the occasional drink is too much for the price they paid having NOTHING as a kid. Does this prat realise where his big-mouth has just got him.
the shameless like Mr Amos don't know what '' community '' really means. To them it's a dog eat dog world of everything privatised. Let his wish come true, let police start charging him a fee to protect him, doctors charge him extortionate fees to keep him alive, and teachers refuse to teach children to equip them for the future, and he ends up with no pension. Do they not teach about the importance of community and a healthy level of socialism at the no doubt posh university he went to? Or do they think people should just exist to serve him just because he happened to be lucky enough to be born with all his limbs?
I am a 76 year old and I neither smoke or drink! I object to people thinking everyone is the same. I gratefully accept the winter fuel allowance which I use to put my heating on during the day and can keep it on longer!!
I'm a pensioner and I don't smoke or drink and I'm sure there are a lot of others who don't do either.
Neither do I, outrageous assumption.
Me neither
They have no interest in you just that they can take to support the scum coming into the country
Nor me and neither do any of my retired friends.
I'm a Junior Doctor. Suck it up I need my 5 star holidays and low hour working week
They've also worked all their lives, and contributed to Britain, one hell of a lot more, than any migrant. Pensioners should be doubted on nothing, and if our country, is in financial crisis (which it's not), we can't keep migrants at all; they're a burden, and have to go.
Guarantee that man was born to wealthy parents and hasn't a clue what working class life is like.
Stop handing millions away every day on migrants living in luxury hotels
How Dare he!!!!!! Worked all my life from 15, and moved locations to further my carrier, and worked very hard. This is disgusting, just remember you will become older soon. No words left, insulting beyond words!!!!!!!!!!
Carrier 😂😂😂😂😂
Taking the money from the people who worked hard and receive a small pension. This is so cruel. Never ever vote for labour again.
How dare they make this disgraceful statement about pensioners….. don’t drink,I don’t smoke….unlike a lot of the buffoons in our government past and present
like saying well the government spend there's on sex drugs and rock and roll... silly people lol
@@securingthepast ?
Don't drink, don't smoke, don't go on holiday - so not sure where he gets the idea that we all spend all our pension on enjoying ourselves
How dare this arsole talk about us pensioners like this
The cheek of it !! How dare he say such things,So the pensioners are pulling the country down.I don't drink or smoke,WHY? Because I can't afford it.
So brave to condemn the disabled and pensioners on air. Not very often do public figures reveal their true nature.
Not brave at all, just bloody disgusting !!!!!
Indeed! What a psychopath!!!
@@robmarshall7796 NOT brave, just totally disgusting !!!!!!!
I am nursing my husband at home who is end stage Huntingtons disease . I have to have heating on 24/7, hospital bed , air mattress and turning mattress on 24/7 and a feeding pump !! Ending the winter fuel bill for us is devastating news and for the seriously sick at home , it shouldn’t be allowed ! Me caring for my husband is already saving the hospital a load of money !!
My dear, dear lady. I do hope you have consolation in this very difficult time when you are a blessing to your husband.
God bless you. It absolutely enrages me at what good people like you have to endure. All the best. 😢❤💐.
@@user-qz3ml9il6j Are you able to claim Attendance Allowance? My mother was able to claim it with the help of a council worker who visited my mum to assess her condition and do the paperwork for her. I believe AA is an allowance that’s not means tested and it opens up possibilities to claim other benefits might be worth chatting to the citizens advice bureau to see what your husband might be able to claim.
@@user-qz3ml9il6j Are you able to claim Attendance Allowance? My mother was able to claim it with the help of a council worker who visited my mum to assess her condition and do the paperwork for her. I believe Attendance Allowance is an allowance that’s not means tested and it opens up possibilities to claim other benefits might be worth chatting to the citizens advice bureau to see what your husband might be able to claim.
@@user-qz3ml9il6j Are you able to claim Attendance Allowance? My mother was able to claim it with the help of a council worker who visited my mum to assess her condition and do the paperwork for her.
I can not believe he said that how dare you! This shows you what the labour party thinks
As a pensioner, I don’t smoke and never had. I don’t drink alcohol and neither do all my pensioner friends and family. Let’s stop generalisation and attacking our financial security.
Its terrible now im 69 never smoked or don't drive my husband worked 51 years outdoors 6 days a week i work 47 years, we are working class , i respect my parents they worked so hard my mom brought up 7 children no benefits then , i could never have bregruged them anything u looked up to them and older generations i respected them ,but now im at old age i feel a burden a forgotten person treated like you are a nobody looked down upon, it's a terrible country we live in when the older generation are told not what we should or shouldn't do shame on you .
They are guilty of spreading misinformation under the online safety bill. My mum is a pensioner. She has never drank alcohol and gave up smoking 30 years ago. Jail them for 2 years IMMEDIATELY!
"People are not entitled to force other people to give up the fruits of their labour so they can go on holiday or they can have a pint of beer down the pub" - but people are forced to give up the fruits of their labour to fund people who have never worked, to fund the freeloaders arriving on our shores every day, who will have a nice warm bed and three meals a day at taxpayers' expense this winter.
Most pensioners who now rely on the state pension didn't earn enough to pay into a private pension during their working lives, and then of course Gordon Brown stole from private pensions when he was Chancellor.
But you ran england on not overcrowding lovelly england not a invasion of forieners that destroyed england so now they want to freeze the english old people in reality that's what's going to happen I'd have them round my house with my wood fire and be kind to them and they can smoke and drink because we live in a free england I'm so glad I left no one would think about doing this 50 years ago
i could say the same about pensioners right now
I've never smoked, and I can't drink because of a heart condition. I live from pension to pension. I won't qualify for winter fuel payment because I don't get pension credit, but I barely exist. Starner should be jailed for misinformation.
Labour has lost the support of every pensioner
No one cares you got us in this mess.
@@lillustpotion the arseholes who voted Labour are at fault
If Kier Snarker wants to fill his imaginary black hole, he should stop spending money on Foreign Aid; stop wasting £28 million on protecting Mosques and forget giving £84 million to African countries to persuade all these chancers and opportunists to stay in their own countries instead of coming here; and all these newly arrived men should consider what they are given in the way of housing, food etc, a loan to be paid back when they're working. If I can come up with answers why can't Snarker? And give the elderly their winter fuel allowance back.
@@lillustpotion Bollocks.
And many of their relatives!
I'm 79 years old I will miss out on the winter fuel payments but I would like to stress that I do not smoke or drink so to come out with that statement is absolutely ridiculous
I worked from 15 years oi age, how dare this person say such things its a disgrace. I cant afford luxuries or holidays bacause my council tax, and utility bills are too high. I resent that hotels and food, heating is all paid for by the government for people who arrive from the EU on boats, with no identity documents. There has been a huge increase in crime on our streets!
Meanwhile King Charles has given him a pay rise…that amounts to 132 million!
He does not try to hide his disgust of working class people. Class discrimination is still rife in the UK
Starmer should be ashamed of himself stopping the winter fuel allowance for pensioners
I'm a pensioner and I don't go on holiday, my one day trip a year is through my lunch club. I don't smoke or drink. Even my other drinks are seldom anything other than boiled or cold water to make my tea and coffee last longer. I no longer buy new clothes, but buy from charity shops. I've sold most of my jewellery to pay fuel bills but last year spent many hours a day sitting with a fleece blanket and hot water bottle and went to bed before 9 am. This year I have reduced how often I shower and do laundry and may now have to cut down on how often I use my oven for cooking. This does impact on my health and mobility. The cuts to the fuel allowance will affect me very much. Are we to have no pleasure in life at all?
Don't admit to having a fleece blanket , Starmer will want to tax you on it .
WHO. DID. YOU. VOTE. FOR.?
When starmer was bleeping on about change. He never said for the worst. Starmer is a vile pm
Why are we housing single men of fighting age and unknown origin if we're in such a mess?
Be careful what you say or Starmergeddon Police will knock on your door.
Stasi Starmr will be after you we are not allowed to question them
This guy is an absolute tool classic labour
How can one man get it so wrong in such a short time frame he’s totally detached from reality. I am a pensioner and still have to work at 67 which means I will not qualify for the winter fuel payments. I really do not want to work at my age but have no choice. I believe they hit the people who they think will complain the least, it’s disgusting you give you many years of service for your country and get kicked in the teeth at the end😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡