Anonymous

So there is blog by a freelance Journalist who is called David Henke.

He has written a piece in respect to:

“1950s born women to face a quadruple whammy to their hopes over compensation, heating allowances, fuel bills and new taxes”

Mr Henke notes that since Labour came to power “pensioners rather than the better off have been singled out to pay the price to balance the books of running the country”

He also states a very pertinent point in that Pensioners are those in society who “often are not in the best of health, have worked most of their life and most don’t go around rioting and throwing fireworks or bricks at the police”

However large corporations and also the bankers , it seems, are those classified as untouchable by the new Labour government in that they, as a section of society, do not seem to be those included or rather “singled out” to also help “pay the price to balance the books of running the country”.

Pensioners must then be assumed by Labour as being easy targets.

Where traditionally they, pensioners as voters, are those more likely to vote Tory than Labour.

Bearing in mind that pensioners are regarded as a vulnerable group within society then Mr Henke also notes in this blog that as Labour announced the cut to the Winter fuel allowance for Pensioners we also had the announcement by Ofgem that the “energy prices are going up 10 per cent from October this year”.

So a pensioner who is only on state pension (and has no savings) they then have to decide whether to eat or whether to heat in the winter months. As to cut back on one or both will impact their health and also their survival chances during the winter months.

Then also as part of this “whammy” via Labour Mr Henke noted that:

“As for the 1950s born women the chance of any compensation – even the paltry sums of between £1000 and £2900 recommended by the Parliamentary Ombudsman — is getting dimmer by the day.

A rather frank answer to a constituent from Michael Shanks, the new Labour MP for Rutherglen and junior energy minister, has revealed the Treasury has taken over deciding whether they get a penny“

“Frank answer”? or a “blunt , cruel and dismissive answer” (indeed not unlike an answer one would expect from a Tory Junior minister).

“Shanks had responded :” My understanding is it is being looked at seriously by Treasury and DWP Ministers now they are in post and fresh discussions are taking place about what happens next”.

Also he, Shanks, added

“You may be disappointed we didn’t simply commit to compensation for all, but as we have discussed before, I think it is more complex than that and I’m not convinced a one size fits all approach is right, or a good use of public money”

That’s not what Labour MP’s and MSP’s were saying when the Tories were in power at WM though was it ?

As they, Labour, as the party in opposition to the Tories at WM, were all most most most indignant and were also most most most disgusted that Waspi women were:

a) Being denied their justified compensation

b) Being treated so badly by the Tory government

c) Being ignored by the Tory government in them, the Tories, failing to address and rectify this scandal that impacted women born in the 1950’s

Why even Jackie Baillie stood next to Waspi women pledging her full support for their fight to get what was owed to them with no proviso stated by her ‘that it could not be paid if it was deemed as unaffordable in the current economic climate’.

(Obviously that support by her for Waspi women meant nothing as seemingly it was just a PR photo opportunity to gain support politically, in Labour being seen as a supposed ‘caring’ party and also as supposed ‘Justice Warriors’ , but only that is, if and when, the Tories were in power at WM it seems).

Also Mr Henke added in his blog that “At the same time Labour pointedly did not agree to raising pensioners tax allowances so with the triple lock in place, to avoid the poorest pensioners with little or no extra pension in place starting to pay tax again”.

So for those not aware who Michael Shanks MP is.

Well he won a By-election in Rutherglen Hamilton & West in 2023 as MP for that constituency and retained that seat in the recent GE when it changed, as a seat , to being just Rutherglen.

During his campaign in the By-election he , Shanks, promoted the (now obvious non) fact that he was supposedly his “own man” and so not a ‘Party Yes Man’.

However he has now proven he is not his “own man” as he has not yet voted against his own party in any votes at WM since he was elected in 2023.

Indeed he , Mr Shanks, seems, as a constituency MP, to be in total accordance with everything his party, Labour , are saying as a party , wanting to do as a party, intending to do as a party and also in what has been done by them ,so far , as a party and as the new UK government.

Amazing is it not as they almost both seem made for each other.

Indeed this meeting of minds between Mr Shanks and his party has existed both when they , Labour, were the official opposition party at WM and also now it appears with them as the current new UK government.

This is also the same Michael Shanks who, prior to becoming an MP for Labour, resigned his membership of Labour in 2019 because of “Brexit” (plus JC was Labour leader in 2019 ) but he, Shanks, then decided to re-join Labour when they were led by Keir Starmer , who as the current leader and now current PM, both supports that same Brexit and also intends to continue with that same “Brexit”.

So go figure that logic that seems most illogical or rather that blatant duplicity and also personal opportunism by him ! (when he was made the Labour candidate in 2023 in Rutherglen H & W , against the wishes of the local Labour group , who as the local group preferred another candidate but they were overruled by Labour HQ).

He, Shanks, was also someone who was invited to speak at this years Scotland in Union Burns Supper where tickets were £50 a head. (It’s not cheap being a part of this pro UK propaganda it seems)

So I guess no poor pensioners would be attending that Burns supper or indeed other poorer people either (the same ones Labour in Scotland pretend that they support and would act on behalf of if they win in Scotland in 2026).

So – There is no Change that is gonna come (with Labour)

So – The Times they are not a-changing (with Labour)

So- There will be no ChChChChChanges (with Labour)

As if the Labour party , as the new UK government, keep doing the same things the Tories did when they were in power then instead of “Change” all we and also they, Labour , as a government will get and also see , is the exact same results that we and also the Tories eventually got and saw.

Where we , the public, all got totally P*ss*d off and the Tories eventually lost power, credibility and all trust as the UK government.

So they, Tories, are now a shadow of their former selves, as ones who once were always, as a political party , those who seemed to win more seats in UK GE’s in recent years than Labour ever did.

Now with Labour as the new UK government we have the same old same old that we endured with the Tory party in power within the UK and so I think the only “Change” with Labour will be with us seeing them eventually losing power as the UK government in the next UK GE

(Where they, Labour, will lose to a newly reformed and regrouped Tory party who , as a party, now will have a new party leader and where perhaps there will also be a place for the likes of Nigel Farage and others from the Reform UK party in their new Tory party- as most of them in the Reform UK party are Tories anyway- at heart).

God knows what will happen with Scotland……I dread to think based on what has happened off and on in Scotland since 2014 in all of the UK GE’s !