Starmer & winter fuel: break open more popcorn
Somewhat to my surprise, there’s to be a pre-Party Conference set-piece in Parliament – tomorrow – on the winter fuel allowance thing. The Deputy Speaker who allowed it obviously has a sense of humour – the Speaker’s office evidently didn’t enjoy being bamboozled and bullied last year over the Gaza vote, eh?
And with Kier ‘Bang’em Up’ Starmer digging in at the weekend, and a hapless[1] junior minister being disowned by No.10 this morning, it’s looking set to be another virility test.
Of course, there are loads of simple ways Starmer/Reeves could sugar the pill a bit, but everything seems set fair for an outright 3-line whip / loyalty test on the blunt and brutal means-testing they’ve announced[2]. The most they’ve done so far is very pointedly to re-confirm the triple lock on pensions: but as everyone has chorused – so what? OK, he’s read his Machiavelli about getting your nastiness in early: but is Starmer really sure he’s pursuing clever politics here? There are also loads of ways of cracking the whip in an ostentatious and salutary manner: summary deselection of Mr ‘Renters Champion’ Athwal would be a start. But a massive falling-out over an emotive social policy so very easily weaponised by everyone else, just ahead of Party Conference, for just £1.4 bn?
It’s not quite the same, but one is reminded of the wonderful line in Bolt’s A Man For All Seasons:
“It profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world … but for Wales?“
Break open the popcorn - again.
ND
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[1] … and I do know what ‘hapless’ means, unlike 95% of Guardian writers (And ‘elide’, ditto ditto.)
[2] Can’t find it just now, but some bright researcher has found a clip of Reeves advocating means-testing for the WFA about 6 years ago. So much for “we didn’t want to do this” – she’s always wanted to do it!
Source: http://www.cityunslicker.co.uk/2024/09/starmer-winter-fuel-break-open-more.html
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