Tories have not backtracked on Bedroom Tax for pensioners – they’re just prolonging the agony
![Labour MP Frank Field called on the government to 'ditch the proposal altogether' [Image: PA].](https://voxpoliticalonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/161121-Frank-Field-PA1.png)
Labour MP Frank Field called on the government to ‘ditch the proposal altogether’ [Image: PA].
Senior citizens are being forced to live under the threat of the plan to charge them for living in “under-occupied” homes for a year.
Perhaps some of them will be able to save up a little, to stave off the inevitable consequence of this extra burden for a little while – but that just means they will have to do without some essentials this year.
What will go? Heat? Food?
Life?
It might come to that, as they try to find an extra £1,700 a year, in some cases.
It always comes down to this, in the end. Tory plans threaten people’s lives.
And of course, in this instance the Conservative Government lied to pensioners about their plan, saying they would protect the elderly from the Bedroom Tax.
That was probably a lie, made in order to cajole pensioners into voting for the Nasty Party as it prepared to do the dirty on them.
And the alternative to paying up is moving away from family and friends, most likely to flats that are unsuitable for older people.
That in itself could be a death sentence.
But then, Tories don’t care.
They’ve had the pensioner vote, but the pensioners themselves are surplus to requirements now. They don’t work, so they don’t make money for the Tories and their friends.
They are expendable.
This delay is simply an opportunity to torture them – for Tory entertainment, most likely.
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This is a despicable situation. For many working, such uncertainty is bad enough. For pensioners, it’s purgatory. Anyone with aged family will know how they worry and fret about such things, like the disabled, they will not be left in peace. The Nasty party strikes again, when will they ever learn the meaning of compassion.
I was quite often criticised for saying pensioners would be right there in the tory sights for bedroom tax if they won the 2015 GE… and I wasn’t by any means alone suggesting that.
They will see how the dust settles now, but they will implement it I think, before 2020, unless by some miracle, they repeal the whole thing?
All pensioners deserve Every penny they get and then some!! They should Not have to be paying any bedroom tax, or however the British Nazis want to make the language fluffy!
They ought to remember who ultimately saved their lives!!!
The Tories just don’t care, and they don’t even care that we know they don’t care!
Where will their votes go next time if they saw the branch they are sitting on.
Its one way of losing votes. The nasty party cant do anything different apart from tell big porkies.