C B Gran

[NHS Million @NHSMillion]

If everyone who has been grateful for the NHS over the past 76 years followed and retweeted we’d reach a million by midnight

Please take just two seconds to show you’re right behind NHS staff

[C B Gran @CBGran1]

@BongosSenior @Keir_Starmer Yup - Tories are finished, Labour one term, looks like Lib Dem or Greens next term.

[Charlotte's Battle Against Glioblastoma (BAG) @alexeades1]

Would be grateful for a RT. My daughter was not a celebrity, she was just a normal individual who unfortunately died from a brain cancer. I'm trying to raise awareness of glioblastoma, a grade 4 tumour that took her at the age of 19 yrs 5 days.
With thanks (Charlotte's mother)
Charlotte 18.2.97 - 24.2.16
https://t.co/Ox60Th4rfn

[C B Gran @CBGran1]

@surbiton2012 @D_Blanchflower @premnsikka Unfortunately Starmer isn't the only one causing all this upset.

[C B Gran @CBGran1]

@LizzieCostie @D_Blanchflower @premnsikka I think they've ALREADY managed to ensure they're going to lose it.
Folk won't want Tories back in after the last 14 years, Labour self-destructing & bombing themselves out within the first few weeks - never mind what's to come. It's going to be Greens or Lib Dems I think.

[C B Gran @CBGran1]

@hutch__man @D_Blanchflower @UKLabour Just like they're going to make Brexit work....... 🙈

[C B Gran @CBGran1]

@JamesMelville Would have been much better to model himself on the understated charisma of US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, instead of other power-crazed leaders.

After the Tory's disastrous 14 years, and Labour's probably disastrous 5 year term, I think we'll all be ready to vote Green

[C B Gran @CBGran1]

@Conservatives @RishiSunak
You lot did this 🤬

@Keir_Starmer
You going to fix this? 🤔

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

Maybe we should run this as a 3 minute TV ad.

Wadda da ya think?

[C B Gran @CBGran1]

@SangitaMyska No!

Heard Starmer say smoking is a preventable death & taking action to ban smoking in more areas will reduce burden on NHS & taxpayer.
Surely taking Winter Fuel Allowance from the elderly should come under the 'preventable death' plan before smoking?

[C B Gran @CBGran1]

Just heard Starmer say smoking is a preventable death & taking action to ban smoking in more areas will reduce burden on NHS & taxpayer.
Stripping Winter Fuel Allowance from the elderly should come under the same 'preventable death' plan, surely?
Abandon & rethink 4 next winter

[C B Gran @CBGran1]

@JamesCleverly Just............. STOP.

Nobody believes a word you say - or even cares.

[C B Gran @CBGran1]

@nazirafzal My hubby just said the police should use drones to spray the same dye they use to prevent cash being stolen from cash trucks over the rioters and looters. Would make it really easy for employers to pinpoint troublemakers working for them, and easier for police to pick them up.

[C B Gran @CBGran1]

@PeterStefanovi2 Didn't this new government say they would be in SERVICE to the people of this country, that they would LISTEN to the people of this country? I think they need their hearing aids checked...

[C B Gran @CBGran1]

This needs to go viral and it needs sorted. MPs benefit rather than pensioners, children, and poorer households???
NO! NO! NO! NO!

[Rob Banx @TheRealRobBanx]

@premnsikka So given that only those pensioners on a very low income will receive the Winter payment, why can MPS claim up to £3,400 towards their heating costs on a £91,000 wage?

[C B Gran @CBGran1]

@jonlis1 For goodness sake, the government has previously acknowledged that many thousands of pensioners who are entitled to PC haven't claimed it. How is this going to impact them?

[C B Gran @CBGran1]

@BenChu_ @OBR_UK @EstherMcVey1 Have you read this????? Nope, thought not...

[Martin Lewis @MartinSLewis]

News. The Chancellor's just announced Winter Fuel Payments will no longer be universal to all pensioners, now only pensioners on benefits will get it - in my view that's too narrow a group. Here's my formal statement to @RachelReevesMP ...
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The targeting of Winter Fuel Payments is too narrow with the winter we have coming. Pensioners were already due to get less as this will be the first time since winter 2022 they haven’t got the up to £300 extra winter fuel cost of living top-up.

The Energy Price Cap is likely to rise 10% this October and stay high across the winter, leaving most energy bills nearly double those pre-crisis, at levels unaffordable for millions.

Many pensioners eke out the £100 to £300 Winter Fuel Payments to allow them to keep some heating on through the cold months. While there's an argument for ending its universality due to tight national finances, it's being squeezed to too narrow a group – just those on benefits and Pension Credit.

Yet again, those just above the thresholds will be hardest hit. This is often justified as there's a 'lack of household income data' to allow other targeting. However, there's a usable precedent from the emergency energy crisis measures announced in April 2022, which I'd urge the Government to look at.

Then, a payment was made to homes in council tax bands A to D – as an imperfect but workable proxy for lower household incomes. That'd allow an additional group of lower to middle-income pensioners to keep the payments and mitigate bill shocks. Councils' discretionary funds could also be funded as in April 2022, for the limited numbers who still need help but don't qualify.

Plus, with this announcement, the Government has a huge moral imperative to ensure the 800,000 people eligible for Pension Credit who don't get it, are informed, educated and helped through the process. It is planning an awareness-raising campaign, but it needs to ensure that reaches every corner – and if possible proactively and personally contact people.

Pension Credit is a crucial gateway benefit, giving access to a host of other entitlements, and now with the link to the Winter Fuel Payment, it makes it even more important to ensure fewer miss out."

[C B Gran @CBGran1]

@RachelReevesMP That's right, go for pensioners instead of taxing the rich and forcing the likes of Amazon to pay up.
Oh, and don't forget to ignore the women who had 6 years pension stolen from them already with no recompense - a double whammy for them!
Thought you might be different. Alas no.

[C B Gran @CBGran1]

@gary_killington @AdamBienkov Oh, for Betty Boothroyd, John Bercow, or Eleanor Laing, to have been in the chair instead of Chope. They'd have made mincemeat of both of them 😆

[C B Gran @CBGran1]

@holte @bmay Reminiscent of the traits shown by her old boss, and we know what happened to him...
Soooooo patronising, and definitely said with no class whatsoever. Leader? 🤣🤣🤣