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No wonder he is a millionaire - he doesn't appear to pay for much himself.

They're getting free sausages instead.

Nurses reject 5.5% pay rise. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c7819kmz98vo

Does that include money in pension pots?

I am not disagreeing about that, means testing benefits etc is the right thing to do. I am disagreeing about the governments method of means testing. Someone just over the means testing limit set by pension credits (£11400) will not now get the WFP. You may be happy with that, I and many others...

Yes but, in the absence of something better that we have already discussed, refusing to give £300 to people living off £12k a year is worse.

By the shortfall I assume you mean the fiscal black hole? I assume the government are going to clatter the rich during the budget, which will include rich pensioners, not pensioners just over the pension credit threshold. I am sure that the government could clatter the energy companies too if...

HMRC know which pensioners pay higher rate tax so, in the absence of a proper means testing system, make that the cut off instead for now.

Are the government going to automatically give them pension credits then as Martin Lewis is not so sure (from his Facebook post this morning): Good news. The full state pension is to rise £460 a year next year due to the triple lock. That is a real rise of about £200 above inflation. Yet there...

We don't but something like this should be a catalyst to implement real change for all.

I seem to remember the Labour Party in opposition lamenting about how unequal our society has become. Surely establishing a system of fairness which would save the country money in the long run by targeting those who need extra help and reducing/removing help from those that don't need it, plus...

Using a benefit that people have to apply for and do not get automatically, which you only get in full or not at all. Getting pension credits allows you to apply for many other benefits too, if you are just outside the threshold you get none of these. Doesn't sound very fair to me. What I am...

Only if you make it expensive by over-complicating it. If a business had to make a change like this urgently to stop themselves going out of business, they would do it as quickly and simply as possible.

HMRC needs to tell the benefits department the level of everyone's income and savings that they have knowledge of. The benefits department can then decide who is eligible and who isn't. In this day and age that really shouldn't be very difficult but I'm sure it will be too complicated to...

All this WFA controversy says to me is that this country desperately needs a proper means testing system.

This landslide (in terms of MPs) was achieved from 33% of the vote, Reform were the 3rd largest party in terms of votes cast (14%). It is up to the Labour government to spend the next 5 years proving that their policies are far better than all of the guff spouted by Reform, rather than just...

Nah. It's mainly tickets to corporate hospitality at Arsenal games and clothes. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/parliament-victoria-arsenal-mps-house-of-commons-b2572677.html

Won't it lose votes from the left or have they lost those already?

Dunno what difference it will make if any but Unite have apparently refused to endorse the Labour manifesto: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c722zkj9ly8o

SKS has stated that Dianne Abbott is not barred from being a candidate. "No decision has been made to bar Dianne Abbott" "The process that we were going through ended with the restoration of the whip the other day, so she's a member of the Parliamentary Labour Party, and no decision has been...