Posts Tagged ‘Contributory benefits’

Means-testing winter fuel payments is another Labour own goal

by Michael Meacher.

Ed Balls didn’t have to say it. It will save a piffling amount of money relative to the size of the budget deficit which is still plateaued at £122bn. Inasmuch as it’s a Tory-style policy, it’s doing the Tories’ dirty work for them. And it’s another nail (admittedly not the first or the only one) […]

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