Union boss calls for government to reverse winter fuel axe
The Unite general secretary has called on Sir Keir Starmer to reverse his decision to end the winter fuel allowance for pensioners. Sharon Graham said the move by government was "the wrong choice". Report by Kennedyl. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00The winter fuel allowance for pensioners should be restored.
00:04It's the wrong decision, it's the wrong choice to have made
00:07to have cut the winter fuel allowance for some pensioners.
00:10And really it doesn't matter what happens in this hall,
00:12this in a sense is a bubble, it's the band club.
00:14It's really what's happening outside this hall that's really important.
00:17And there is huge anger there.
00:19I think you need to listen to what people are saying and to move on this issue.
00:23I think people are sort of bemused actually.
00:25I mean they don't understand how we've chosen
00:28to pick the pocket of pensioners
00:30rather than to go to the most wealthiest in our society.
00:34The richest 50 families in Britain are worth £500 billion.
00:39So they haven't been touched at all.
00:41Yet you're taking £300 to save £1.4 billion, a peanut,
00:45off of the most vulnerable in our society.
00:47It's completely and utterly wrong and I think people are bemused by it.