Freeze and Starver unopposed by hundreds of right-wing drones, with only a sole rebel – plus the 7 already suspended for rebelling over the ‘kid starver’ cap – voting against
Keir ‘Starver’ Starmer and Rachel ‘Freeze’ Reeves have forced through their plan to cut the vital Winter Fuel Allowance for millions of pensioners, after only a single Labour MP refused to toe their line and voted in favour of a motion to block it.
Dozens of Labour MPs took the coward’s way out and abstained, allowing the red Tory government to win by 348 votes to 228. The motion to abandon the cut was brought by the Conservatives, a good indication of just how malignant the Red Team Tories are.
Some individual MPs may have been ‘paired’, not voting because they were matched with an MP voting the other way who was unable to attend – but most will not have been in this situation. At a meeting of Labour MPs last night with the leadership, not one spoke up against the fuel allowance move – Skwawkbox understands that Trickett did not attend.
The former Labour MPs, already suspended from the party whip for voting against Starmer in an attempt to end the ‘two-child cap’ on benefits and therefore now sitting as independents, also voted against the fuel allowance cut.
Starmer is keeping the two-child cap in place despite it putting more than a million children into, or deeper into, poverty and hunger – and costing £38bn more to keep than to end. It is likely that Starmer will now also remove the whip from the only Labour MP brave enough to stand up against him on this issue.
Labour’s own analysis shows that the Winter Fuel Allowance cut will kill around 4,000 old people each winter, alongside the 8,000 who already die because of living in cold homes. This analysis was done before the grotesque rise in energy costs as energy corporations profiteered from the pandemic and Ukraine’s destruction of the Nord Stream gas pipelines.
SKWAWKBOX needs your help. The site is provided free of charge but depends on the support of its readers to be viable. If you’d like to help it keep revealing the news as it is and not what the Establishment wants you to hear – and can afford to without hardship – please click here to arrange a one-off or modest monthly donation via PayPal or here to set up a monthly donation via GoCardless (SKWAWKBOX will contact you to confirm the GoCardless amount as it has to be entered by us). Alternatively, if you prefer to make a one-off or recurring donation by simple card payment, please use the form below:
Make a one-time donation
Make a monthly donation
Make a yearly donation
Choose an amount
Or enter a custom amount
Your support is hugely appreciated.
Your support is hugely appreciated.
Your support is hugely appreciated.
DonateDonate monthlyDonate yearlyThanks for your solidarity so Skwawkbox can keep doing its job of inconveniencing the right and helping to build the left!
If you wish to republish this post for non-commercial use, you are welcome to do so – see here for more.
Apparently: “Abstention is the new rebellion”.
No it fucking isn’t.
Barring Jon (God bless ya), the batard trst of yas can burn.
Literally – BURN.
VERY pertinent, TT. Spot on! ““EVIL triumphs when good men do nothing“, i.e. Abstain.
So fucking indoctrinated by the abject shithousery of starmer and his continuous abstentions in supposed opposition that they think relabelling and redefining cowardly abstention is a get-out.
That we’ll accept it.
Well it isn’t. And we won’t.
Of course, there’ll be more money for MPs security at surgeries to ensure they don’t have to front the poor arl buggers wanting to tear into them with their walking sticks and zimmer frames.
Thats if they’re still alive to make there…
I hope those of you that voted for anyone but the tories are feeling proud right now
Apparently “Just one Labour MP voted against the cut, while another 53 abstained. However, only 12 of those did not have permission to be away from parliament on other business.”
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/keir-starmer-winter-fuel-rebellion-b2610287.html
This the “better future” is it?
Tell us, genius – what’s not to like about this one – as well as the child staving measure, why dontcha?
What’s not tory about them? Hmm?
Or are you just gonna post shite we already know about? Wasnt so long ago you were breaking the news, now keef’s showing you up for the fucking MORON you actually are and always were, you post lwjats already known, long after the event(s).
You’d rather see people die than admit your part in enabling their demise.
Vermin.
Oh no you mentioned the three letter word that was avoided at all costs. Thank you for it is true
I guess that post at 09:56pm, Tuesday 10/09/24, from Billy No Mates, is as close as we are ever going to get to a tacit public admission and confession that everyone else was correct in their warnings before the General Election about a Starmer Government and that the ‘wee gobshite’ was catastrophically wrong in every respect.
You’re welcome, Billy. Better late than never, eh!
If they choose to spin the line about a £22bn black hole meaning all bets are off then surely reneging on the stupid promise not to raise taxes on working people (which was always going to be interpreted so that taxes would be raised) is the course to pursue rather than killing the elderly? Actually shocked that I’ve just typed that – killing the elderly is now more acceptable than departing from an illusory sense of financial restraint. And as SW notes, hundreds of Labour MPs feel that any pangs of conscience can be assuaged by the prospect of future reward for loyalty to this diseased party.
It’s worse than that, Tim.
Killing the elderly, for a saving of £1.5 billion, is more acceptable than not spending more than that sum on arming a neo-Nazi regime.
The Storm Shadow missiles the pet politicians of the oligarchy are sending to 404 to be used to attack civilians on beaches etc cost £2.54 million per unit. The media claim that the UK stockpile is between 700 – 1,000 (£1.778 billion – £2.54 billion).
That’s what pensioners, as well as children, are being sacrificed for.
Tim White :
“And as SW notes, hundreds of Labour MPs feel that any pangs of conscience can be assuaged by the prospect of future reward for loyalty to this diseased party…”
Well I doubt that – I think that they can be sure their card has been marked .. !
And this is early days – before the newbie Labour MPs have settled in and
plucked up some courage to defy Starmer and Reeves
Who they?
James Melville on X
“348 Labour MPs earning £91,346 a year (many of whom get their heating costs in their second homes paid by taxpayers) voted in parliament to take away the winter fuel allowance from millions of pensioners. Their conceit, nefariousness and hypocritical entitlement is disgraceful”
Reeves took £4400 in energy support before removing heat for pensioners.
TwoTierKier
I’ve just been coerced into watching a hall full of celebs giving awards to celebs for being celebs. £10 they don’t know what a tenner is. Wave that Union Jack. God save the nonces.
From KernowDamo:
Just ONE Labour MP Stands Up to Starmer for Pensioners
https://youtu.be/TZ-TIWMFzHc
Do a search for ‘Trickett’ on this site* and you’ll quickly realise that John Trickett is Labour’s best (only?) heir to the much-missed Corbyn.
___________
* https://skwawkbox.org/?s=Trickett
pah. JON trickett, not John. soz, comrade
It’d seem so. But even then, trickett failed to vote against the child benefit cap.
I had hopes for Andy McDonald myself. *sighs*
‘Before the election Starmer said he would cut energy bills.
The Right Wing Neo-Liberal Capitalist little grovelling snake?
And in the next deep midwinter as some pensioners freeze.
Right Wing Labour says: Let Them Heat Cake!’
Starmer is clearly lying when he claims that we cannot afford £1.5 million to stop pensioners from dying of the cold:
“Prime Minister Keir Starmer recommits to £3 billion a year of military support for Ukraine until 2030/31 and for as long as needed.”
Source: Recent UK government press release.
Starmer is off to Washington tomorrow (Friday 13th) and there is anticipation that a joint announcement may be made about allowing Western long range missiles (UK Storm Shadows, US JASSM stealth missiles) to be used by 404 to attack deep inside Russia.
https://gilbertdoctorow.com/2024/09/11/dialogue-works-edition-of-11-september/
The kind of targets likely to be hit, given the state-of-the-art Missile Defense Systems protecting key locations and facilities, are likely to be similar to those hit by Ukrainian drones in the past day or two – civilian apartment blocks.
Which will lead to further retaliatory escalation, likely targeting NATO facilities being used for this purpose. Not necessarily restricted to inside 404.
Keef harps on about showing leadership.
There’s nobody I know would agree that allowing others to do, or go through, things you wouldn’t yourself constitutes leadership
Therefore if he’s serious about showing leadership he should forfeit the heating allowance for MPs second homes…as well as all the freebies he scavanges.
Godawful, diminutive, parasitic nasal tosser.
£1.5 billion, that should read.