Jess Phillips backs Burnham's pension pledge reversal
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Jess Phillips MP publicly expresses support for Burnham's move, describing herself as 'delighted' with the plan to drop the triple lock commitment.
“Jess Phillips MP says she is 'delighted' with Burnham's plans to drop the triple lock pension pledge.”
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Jess Phillips MP says she is 'delighted' with Burnham's plans to drop the triple lock pension pledge. This is part of a larger scheme to fund a new national care service as part of Labour's net general election manifesto.
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Meanwhile they continue to piss around, act like they’re major international players and are prepared to fund our badly underfunded military, telling other nations they must also step up to the plate and offer the armed forces an extra….0.068% until 2030. These are not serious people. These are not people dedicated to making the hard decisions to…
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That's not correct. My mother receives state pension & attendance allowance and has no savings. She has to pay the first £180 per week for social care. Anything over £180 per week is paid for by the council. She receives about 7 hours of social care which comes to around £160 per week, all paid for by her.
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Of course, but look what happened to Starmer when he tried slightly means testing the tiniest pensioner benefit. It'll never happen, they'll just burn down any government that doesn't give them ever increasing amounts of free stuff.
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The main point being is we need to see unattainable rises of unproductive spending go for our borrowing costs to fall. If they just juggle it around without solving the problem we’re in trouble
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I know, how dare MP's ever change their mind on something! They should choose 1 set of policies and only back them from the start to the end of their career!
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and where are all these properties that they can downsize to? I thought we had a problem with number of properties available?
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