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(no, not satire – it’s the Tories!)
In about 1987, Tory health minister Edwina Currie ‘advised’ elderly people who couldn’t afford to heat their homes properly that they should avoid hypothermia by wearing woolly hats and long johns.
And now, over 25 years later, the Tories are making exactly the same mistake – this time ‘advising’ elderly people who can’t afford to heat their homes properly that they should avoid hypothermia by wearing jumpers.
This ‘advice’ unsurprisingly isn’t working because Age UK estimate that as many as 200 old people die every day in the UK from cold during the winter. That’s around 24,000 old people dying of cold every year because they don’t have enough money to keep themselves warm.
Which means during the 25 years it’s taken the Tories to go from woolly hats and long johns under the Thatcher government to jumpers under David Cameron’s – well over half a million old people have died from the cold in the UK.
I wonder what the Tories will be telling hard-up pensioners to wear 25 years from now after yet another half a million of them have died as a direct result of fuel poverty? Thick woolly socks and willy warmers?
Same Old Nasty Tories.
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jaynel62 said:
& Round and Round we go?!!
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guy fawkes said:
I wrote about Edwina before reading this post, great minds think alike.
The only thick thing the elderly want to wear around their necks are dead tories or perhaps use their rendered fat as fuel.
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xraypat said:
Thanks Tom.
As a pensioner I am incredibly insulted by this Tory advice. I am lucky enough not to be made destitute by them YET but worry about those who are.
Your piece is excellent as always.
Pat x
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nedhamson said:
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Heartless? No; this is beyond heartless – murder he says!
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Frances Coppola said:
Although of course the pensioners Currie was talking to would be dead by now of old age anyway…..
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eviltorypervert said:
what we cant pensioners you will saying we cant bum working class kids next.
why do you have to spoil all our fun.
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thelovelywibblywobblyoldlady said:
Looks like wholesale gas prices have decreased…now I’m no data/market analyst; but doesn’t that mean the cost to the consumer should go down?
http://www.infomine.com/investment/metal-prices/natural-gas/5-year/
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