BALLS THREAT TO FUEL ALLOWANCE

Brrrrrrr or should that be Grrrrrr?



ED Balls threatens a Labour policy to withdraw the Winter Fuel Allowance from all pensioners with an income of more than £42,000 pa (Mirror on-line June 3).

Point 1) ... that's ripe coming from one of the major players in the Blair-Brown govt's 'spend, spend, spend and to hell with the consequences' regime, that helped to get us into the economic mess we're in today!
Point 2) ... how does he propose to enforce such a move? A blanket means test for all pensioners?

Point 3) ... but will it end there at £42,000 pa? Or would this be just a first step to the scrapping of the Winter Fuel Allowance altogether? Those of us who have a lot less than £42K coming-in need a clear undertaking from Balls & Co that our WFA is safe!