Kuenssberg interview with Johnson cancelled.

[Walt Zingmatilder]

I agree the winter allowance is in need of an overhaul in the way it is applied. Personally, I don't need it. But some do, and ensuring those people do receive it is the problem. If memory serves me correctly that was one of the reasons it was made universal in the first place, because it was best to cover everyone and cheaper to administer.

As to the "hypocritical venting of pent up frustration", undoubtedly a part of it. But that just leads me back to the fact that Starmer as a politician should have seen that coming.

Yes He should have known something was coming but he did have an immediate set of riots from people pissed off with his winning and who thought because it was Starmer they could get away with it.
The latest bollocks is Johnson is upset at the giving away of Chagos Island. Although Johnson probably thought they said Shagger's Island. Could Kier have forseen being blamed for that by the very people who came up with the idea? I'm not sure.

[Nearly Sane]

And yet giving money to people who can afford to winter in warmer climes cannot be right. I agree he has made himself look as thick as shit. What he didn't spot but I did was the hypocritical venting of 14 years pent up frustration from the public on a Labour government unlikely to be vindictive towards them as opposed to a tory government who always get back at whoever crosses them.
When the hard headed tories return it will be freebies as normal without a peep.

I attacked the Tories for their corruption, I've attached Labour for it. You are the one giving Labour a free pass for their bribes/freebies as just stupidity, so you are the one being hypocritical.

[Nearly Sane]

I agree the winter allowance is in need of an overhaul in the way it is applied. Personally, I don't need it. But some do, and ensuring those people do receive it is the problem. If memory serves me correctly that was one of the reasons it was made universal in the first place, because it was best to cover everyone and cheaper to administer.

As to the "hypocritical venting of pent up frustration", undoubtedly a part of it. But that just leads me back to the fact that Starmer as a politician should have seen that coming.

He shouldn't have accepted the bribes. It's not just stupidity, it is corruption. The scale isn't something where it really matters. You are either corrupt or not corrupt. That he may sell himself cheaper than Johnson doesn't mean anything other than he's a cheaper buy.