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Millions of British pensioners are going without food to pay their heating bills.

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1 in 5 British pensioners, from a 12 million generation live in poverty, with many pensioners dying and starving to death through the winter months because they cannot afford to heat their homes, or to eat properly.

Please go to this web page-http://link-age-countrywide.synthasite.com

People who wish to phone me can ring after 7pm any evening, 01803-857020

or they can e.mail me at the following,-
michaelthompson533@btinternet.com

Why are our politicians getting away with saying that an ever ageing population and diminishing workforce is to be blamed for not increasing the basic state pension, but encouraging the further means testing of our pensioners ?




It is a crime in our country that the basic State pension is so low.




It is a crime in our country that means testing pensioners is the "in thing".




And it is a crime in our country that we have winter deaths among the elderly that are becoming more and more excessive, yet none of this genocide ( which is what it is ) ever makes the headline news.




And what young people cannot seem to grasp, is it's all coming to them



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  • it will be more difficult for the pensioners of the future. there is a cult of youth worship in the uk now. it will deteriorate as we elect younger parlimentarians. the house of lords will vanish, they have helped penioners in the past. it is up to the more mature 'would be' politians to appeal to the younger electorate as well as the mature in society. if we have an older parliament the pensioners voice will be heard. i fell very concerned about the neglect of the elderly in our society.

  • We have a devide between the old and the young in Britain, and frankly I think it is here for good, because the politicians want it so

  • Absolutely right Papaumau

  • My luck depends on people coming forward to help.

  • Wow, thank you for that amiee21uk, I need people to come forward and turn Link-Age/Countrywide into a reality. So I need people in the South West to come forward particularly.

    One of the saddest things for today's young people is that they can never save up if they are unemployed, and/or living in the high rent private sector because the means test for rent stops people saving.

    All the time Britain is void of low rented housing, this problem will get worse instead of better.

  • I think the main problem with the priorities that the government set for our country are often influenced too strongly by our hyerarchical position and status within the world. For example Iraq. Tony Blair was too afraid NOT to go to war because that would make an enemy of the USA which clearly cannot happen. Likewise these are the sort of politics that determine policy closer to home - nothing is for the right reasons, which is why it's always going to be such a struggle to effect change!

  • Nice one Jean, I could not agree more.

    However on the lower and micro economics scale, the politicians are saying that increasing state pensions is not affordable, which is also utter white wash due to the fact that means testing pensioners for state handouts is costing over ten times more of tax payers money than a decent state pension re-linked to national average wages.

    Hence the bottom line is that the UK's low state pension is not a matter of cost, it is a matter of political ethos.

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  • OAP's are allowed to die of hypothermia so that it frees up housing. It's a mass cull to free up homes for people coming from abroad to live in this country.

  • Good for you Mike, More media is needed from caring supportive people like yourself! Come on Goverment officials get your finger out! There are too many elderly folk who are suffering in silence ! More Unity is needed now!

  • I would also like to thank you sir for making this video. I am appalled at your treatment.

  • This is a bastard country. I despise the fact that one has to work until 65 years old as my dad died at 50 and my mother at 59. I will be 57 this year and I am knackered, I don't want to work anymore I would like a rest. I cannot afford holidays or to save. This country is not great and the government are a load of lying shits. I just hope I can live as long as I can to take back some of the money I have invested into this nanny state. Oh and where did my parents' pensions go?

  • Britain is a bitch.

  • Good on you for helping the elderly

    those phonies in 'gov't" and the fake media should all be hung, i say.

    other than that, peACE〠

  • @johneunson Good broadcast Michael and very true, pensioners are neglected in the UK compared with other European countries

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