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Alex Baker, the caller Labour MP for Aldershot witnessed choler from pensioners implicit wintertime substance chopped (Image: X/@REWearmouth)
Labour MP Alex Baker was hounded by aggravated pensioners astatine a pub wherever helium was reportedly booed implicit the wintertime substance outgo cuts.
A video posted connected X, formerly known arsenic Twitter shows radical astatine the pub shouting “Rushmoor radical first” & “and our pensioners”.
It comes arsenic the caller Labour-led Government changed the rules successful which lone pensioners who suffice for definite benefits volition person it.
It is estimated that lone 1.5 cardinal radical volition beryllium eligible to get the payment portion past wintertime it was 10.8 cardinal radical who got the payment.
Alex Baker, the caller Labour MP for Aldershot, appears to person been booed retired of a pub. You tin perceive shouts of “Rushmoor radical first” & “and our pensioners” pic.twitter.com/IQow5VwpCj
— Rachel Wearmouth ?????? (@REWearmouth) September 15, 2024The policy, launched by the past Labour authorities successful 1997, costs astir £2bn per twelvemonth but Sir Keir Starmer hopes the changes volition prevention taxpayers £1.5bn.
The premier curate says it could assistance plug the £22bn "black hole" helium says exists successful the nationalist finances - but the Tories and charities fearfulness it could permission immoderate over-65s acold this winter.
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