https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/labours-age-of-miracles/
> I am not yet eligible for the winter fuel allowance. Nor am I especially in favour of it […]
> I keep wondering what would have happened if a Conservative chancellor had made this decision. If the saving had been made by George Osborne, Sajid Javid or Rishi Sunak, I can say with considerable certainty that there would have been outrage. Much of the media would have claimed this was fresh evidence that the Conservative party’s policy platform included freezing the elderly to death. One of those crock left-wing campaign groups would have conjured up a figure of how many pensioners were likely to die this winter because of the cut, and the BBC would have run the story every night. A group of left-wing street movements would have organised protests – filled with the obligatory Socialist Workers party banners – alleging a cull of the population by the Tories. And so on. Yet the response seems to be that a policy that would have been genocidal in the hands of the Tories is mere economic sense in the hands of Labour.
https://archive.ph/VZyQb
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