Peter Bedford MP and other Conservative MPs used an Opposition Day Debate to highlight the damaging impact that the government’s decision to scrap the Winter Fuel Payment is having. The Conservatives brought in a motion to force the Government to publish data on what impact their decision has had on levels of pensioner poverty and the number of pensioner hospital admissions throughout the UK.
Unfortunately, the Government forced their MPs to vote it down so the true impact of their cruel decisions will never be seen.
Speaking in the debate, Peter lamented the decision by the Chancellor to scrap the £300 payment that is now forcing the elderly and vulnerable across the United Kingdom in having to choose between “eating or heating.”
Peter also highlighted that the Labour Party’s claim of ‘being the party of the NHS’ is shallow: since through this single decision alone all 348 Labour MPs that voted for the cut are “complicit in costing the National Health Service an additional £169 million to look after the 100,000 pensioners who have been left out in the cold”.
Throughout the debate, Peter and his Conservative colleagues promised to continue to stand up for pensioners in and outside of Parliament.
