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Originally Posted by Cherie
The people with the broadest shoulders will have to take the load, pensioners on 13k a year
John McDonnell was just interviewed on LBC, he said the year that Gordon Brown introduced this excess deaths dropped by 50 per cent, so for anyone to say that Starmer and Reeves are not pursuing a policy to kill off pensioners are fooling themselves
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I mean if you want to completely remove any semblance of heart from the equation and only look at the numbers...
Dead pensioners is great for the economy. I would possibly go as far as to say, "fewer elderly people" is better for the economy of a country than literally anything else.
Elderly people cost money (care, pensions, the vast bulk of NHS expenditure) and dead elderly people are an economic boon (inheritance get spent, houses get sold, carers return to work).
To be clear I'm not saying that any of this is moral or good - it abhorrent and dystopian - but I think we're going to see it as an increasing trend. They do not want elderly people in the economy unless they're wealthy enough to support themselves or have families with enough money to do so.
More charitably I think that's another part of it - they don't necessarily want elderly people to choose not to use their heating, they want the message to be very much out there that they won't get help, because they want families to help with elderly winter bills instead and know that most people would be (understandably) ashamed to ask. They're sadly not accounting for the fact that many elderly people simply don't have anyone checking in very often.