Quote Originally Posted by North Cardiff Blue View Post
Don't take facts personally, that's what the government has done, you don't have to get defensive, you've gained at the pensioners' expense, you wanted Labour in to benefit yourself and your family, that's life.

Civil servants one, pensioners nil.

Let's see what happens when the pensioners on mass and other losers in the budget vote next time.

People forgot what a Labour government was like, they've had a quick reminder, they will drag the UK down to Wales standards and leave a mess without being in government during Brexit and Covid.

All the incumbent governments during Covid will be voted out, people will blame the mess it left and the damage to the governments, then a few years later will realise how difficult a period it was as a once in 100-year event.
I hate to burst your bubble but I got a larger pay rise (in % and Ł) last year under the conservatives. Also Local Government pay increases weren't funded centrally unlike those set by pay review bodies so instead had to be absorbed into existing budgets i.e. the money isnt being pinched from elsewhere, we just see a continuation of the budgetary pressure that councils have failed for a decade or more. Also also our pay offer was made to the unions under the previous conservative government. Turns out you don't really know anything, which will surprise absolutely nobody.

My point is it's retarded to look at government spending, pick two random things and associate them. The government committed money to loads of sectors at the same time as means testing the winter fuel allowance. For example 'they have committed 1 billion to the aerospace sector, and they took that 1 billion directly from poor fragile freezing cold pensioners' doesnt get people like you frothing so nobody says it, its just as valid though (i.e. not valid).