Rachel ‘Freeze’ Reeves thinks this is acceptable but do you?
Labour’s Chancellor claimed money to pay energy bills on her second home, before cutting Winter Fuel Allowance for millions of pensioners. Rachel ‘Freeze’ Reeves thinks this is acceptable but do you?
Here‘s Skwawkbox with the story:
the toxic cherry on the crap-cake can be found in Reeves’s parliamentary expenses, which are published on the IPSA website: in the 2023/4 reporting year, Reeves claimed almost £1,300 for utilities for her London MP’s home – including almost £1,200 for energy – while receiving an MP’s salary of more than £90,000.
She will now receive around £72,000 in ministerial salary as Chancellor, as well as living in Downing Street where the taxpayer will cover all bills.
Reeves has been an MP since 2010, but on top of last year’s claims – just since the 2019 general election – she has claimed almost £1,500, despite the early part of the parliament being affected by the pandemic. In the 2010-2019 period, she claimed additional sums: for example £653.58 for electricity and £41.11 for gas in 2018-19 and almost £1,000 in 2017-18.
Reeves has also been disciplined for excessive use of her parliamentary credit card. Parliamentary standards body IPSA suspended her card in 2015 after she was unable to show that more than £4,000 of her spending was valid expenditure.
The article’s conclusion is one with which This Writer can heartily agree:
Old, young, doesn’t matter – the vulnerable are not safe with what now masquerades as ‘Labour’ government.
Source: Rachel ‘Freeze’ Reeves has claimed £1000s in energy bills on second home – SKWAWKBOX
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She should be sacked. She has no idea,of the suffering she is causing…if she does know what she is doing , she is a cruel and bitter woman
I am pleased to see that the campaign group 38 Degrees has launched a petition in response to the cruel decision to restrict the payment of the Winter Fuel Allowance to only those pensioners who receive Pension Credit or other means-tested benefits. This is at a time when fuel bills remain high and the time of year when bills are at their highest. Many pensioners may have already budgeted on the assumption that they will be receiving the Allowance.
Please encourage all your readers to seek out and sign the petition and let the government know what a shameful decision this is.