SO let’s talk about the gutlessness of those 52 Labour MP’s who abstained from the vote to stop the Government scrapping Winter Fuel Payments and who didn’t have the balls to turn up to tell their leader what they thought of his heartless policy.
Labour MPs who abstained are gutless, writes Carole Malone (Image: PA)
Then let’s talk about all the rest who DID vote to deprive pensioners of the £300 heating allowance for no other reason than Starmer ordered them to.
Let’s talk about THEIR cowardice, their spinelessness, but most of all their treachery in voting through this vile assault on Britain’s most vulnerable people, an assault that will literally kill some of them this winter.
Because in cowering before Starmer and the Whips who’d threatened “consequences” for those who didn’t support the Government, they have betrayed the very people they are paid to represent. Every one of those MPs has betrayed the elderly in their constituencies, the people who have no voice and who depend on MPs to speak up for them.
But instead of doing that, they took their orders from the King and Queen of Thieves – consigning many pensioners to a winter of fear and dread. I hope to God they can live with themselves. The only Labour MP who had the cojones to vote against this travesty was Jon Trickett.
Jon Trickett voted against scrapping winter fuel payments (Image: PA)
Starmer and Reeves should hang their bloody heads in shame over this. Because it goes way beyond pickpocketing pensioners. It’s consigning some of them to certain death this winter from hypothermia. But then it’s clear they don’t care if pensioners take this punishment beating because the old folk are no use to them in terms of votes and so can be ignored.
As for Starmer and Reeves’ protestations that all the people who need pension credits will get them – that’s a barefaced lie. Millions of pensioners who have very small pensions or a small amount of savings (for a rainy day) will be exempt from these credits because they’re a few measly quid over the threshold.
And these credits – if you can ever fill in the fiendishly complicated form – can take up to TWO months to come back – by which time the person applying could be dead.
So, how come this government can find billions to feed, house and educate illegal immigrants – people who have contributed nothing to this country? How come we can afford to pour billions of foreign aid into countries richer than ours? How can we spend billions on Ukraine (which, by the way, I think is right) yet we can’t spare £1.2billion to keep our own pensioners alive this winter. Because these ARE people who have paid into the system and who HAVE contributed to this country.
And why is the Government refusing to publish its own data about how many people could die without these payments? There’s only one reason – because it’s more than the 4,000 its own research predicted back in 2017.
It’s scandalous that in a supposedly civilised country the elderly have to beg, plead and be means tested for money that should be rightfully theirs because it’s money that they have paid into the system. Sadly, they’re now under the thumb of a government that doesn’t care whether they live or die!
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Halle Berry in Marie Claire’s Changemaker issue (Image: Yana Yatsuk for Marie Claire US)
The divine Halle Berry, who at 58 says she isn’t afraid of ageing, tells Marie Claire magazine: “Age is just a number.” Well it is when you look like a goddess who’s drunk from the fountain of eternal youth.
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I STILL can’t quite believe Strictly Come Dancing won Best Talent Show at the National TV Awards. Maybe viewers don’t mind if women are getting bullied and abused in the name of entertainment. However, I am wondering why judge, Craig Revel Horwood, is starting the new season having had a makeover that makes him a dead ringer for Rylan!
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Queen Elizabeth II’s bad statue in Antrim (Image: PA)
WHY would a sculptor produce a sculpture of the Queen that looks absolutely nothing like her? This aberration is an insult to Elizabeth’s memory and we can only Thank God she’s not alive to see it. It’s so bad that if you didn’t know who it was supposed to be you’d never guess – even if your life depended on it
Belfast Artist, Anto Brennan, needs to have his eyes tested or rethink his career, because I’m not sure he’s suited to this sculpture malarkey. I had a quick look at his other work online and trust me it’s worse. Henry Moore he is not.
It begs the question how he ever got the commission in the first place because this ugly lump of bronze isn’t just a case of times and styles changing – it’s just bad.
People in Belfast are rightly furious. One woman said the statue looked like Mrs Doubtfire. Brennan’s response: “It captured the Queen in a dignified pose.”
No it didn’t, matey. And everyone but you knows it!
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LAST week it was grumpy old Sir Ian McKellen putting the boot into the Queen claiming she was rude to him. This week Elton John has spluttered into life sneering that his wedding to David Furnish – at Windsor’s Guildhall where Charles and Camilla were also married – was way better: “We had a bigger crowd.”
So what, you silly big pudding. It’s not a “my willy is bigger than yours” scenario.
What the hell’s wrong with these ancient knights who’ve had nothing but good things happen to them courtesy of the royals. This comment doesn’t just make Elton sound bitchy, it sounds like the last gasp of an egocentric star who knows he’s had his day but just wants to remind us all how important he once was.
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POSS MUGSHOT
MODEL Lottie Moss is whingeing that she had a seizure after taking Ozempic, which she didn’t obtain through the proper channels but got from a friend who’d gotten it “below board” from a doctor.
Ex-druggie Moss, her friend and the doctor all need a slap. The model weighed just 9st 6lbs and wasn’t remotely overweight yet still she took a drug – under the radar – to lose more. She also took a way stronger dose than she should have done.
What the hell did she expect? Now she’s warning others to be careful – what like she wasn’t? It’s not Ozempic that’s dangerous – it’s idiots like Moss!
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I’VE just thought of way Prince William can satisfy Harry’s demand for an apology.
He should look him square in the eyes and say:” Harry, I’m so bloody sorry you’re my brother.” That should do it… ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
MILLIONAIRE plumber Charlie Mullins is leaving Britain, a country he loves, because he says he won’t pay another penny to a government that loathes aspiration and ambition and is run by a “socialist in a suit he didn’t pay for”.
He says thousands of other millionaires are also fleeing because of Starmer’s determination to punish the ambitious and the wealthy. The latest prediction from Henley & Partners, a company which helps wealthy investors move overseas, is that Britain is on track to lose 9,500 millionaires this year alone. So, well done Starmer. In just two months he’s scared off the people who would have funded his “growth, growth, growth” agenda.
And when the rich have beggared off, who’s going to pay for the obscene public sector pay rises and the benefits for the millions who don’t bother to work?
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THE Treasury is refusing to explain how it calculated the £22billion black hole and there can only be one reason for that – it doesn’t exist. It’s a fantasy figure pulled out of the air by Reeves and Starmer to justify the crippling tax hikes they’re about to hit us with.
The Treasury has no right to hide this information. We’re entitled to know how a figure that’s rammed down our throats every day by the PM and his adenoidal sidekick, Reeves, was arrived at. Keeping the “peasants” (us) in the dark is what happens in dictatorships and we’re not that – yet!
But, increasingly, important information is being hidden from us – like how much this government is spending furnishing houses for illegal immigrants. And we have a right to know that too because it’s our money that’s paying for it.
However what we do know – because unlike Reeves we CAN count – is that already £9.4billion has been handed out in public sector pay rises. And that figure is predicted to rocket to £14billion. So there’s your black hole.
The only other one is between Rachel Reeves’ ears.
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KEIR Starmer says the NHS must “reform or die”. And part of the big plan is a pre watershed ban on junk food advertising. So this ridiculous Government – which clearly knows nothing about the psyche of fat people – thinks not showing crisps and cakes on telly before 9pm will stop people eating them. Dear oh dear…
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“THEY eat the dogs,” has to be one of the best lines ever to come out of a presidential debate. I’m just hoping it’s not the line that scuppers Trump’s chances of getting to the White House. Not because I think he’ll be a great president, but because Kamala Harris will be a catastrophic one.
