Honestly I hope they do this. Too many rich pensioners don’t need these sorts of benefits get them by default and don’t care. I’d rather they save some money and use the cash to help more people who may not be state pension age
Employ-Personal on
Well, us old bastards are going to pay for staying alive to long. We’re being punished to warn the rest of you in our new less comfortable world. I expect to see at some point Euthanasia being discussed.
kazuwacky on
I’m sure Labour have looked at their expenses and seen the disproportionate amount that pensioners have been getting when compared to others but they need to tread carefully. Working families need to see some relief and more people struggling isn’t going to help overall.
I’m not disagreeing with this choice.
kdotdot on
We should give bus passes to everyone, not just school-aged children and pensioners.
SpinIx2 on
Where does the cost of an OAP bus pass fall? Does the DWP have to pay the local bus companies for them?
My parents have qualified for them for nearly 30 years now and I’m very confident in saying my Dad hasn’t taken a bus once in that time. Did it cost anyone anything if he did have one? If he had used one would it have cost anyone anything more than marginal impact on any overcrowding and a tiny amount of additional fuel by increasing the weight being moved by a half of one percent?
On the flip side for the last few years of his now (thankfully) terminated driving it would certainly have been better for everyone if he had been in a bus.
QuinlanResistance on
I don’t want old people driving – their reaction times are worse than younger people after a few drinks. Let them keep the bus pass.
Thick-Luck9829 on
Will they scrap it for the 71% of social housing that don’t do a days work and can’t speak a word of English nor even want to?
Anubis1958 on
Well, mine is gifted to me by Czar Khan, and the London Boroughs. It allows me to travel after 9:30. We know it colloquially as the TWIRLY Card. As in “Oh, have you turned up too early as well?”
bahumat42 on
Considering how much of our society has been built around needing a vehicle to get around I think the least we can do is allow those who don’t have access to such a vehicle a way to do so.
tdrules on
Not sure about this one. Getting people out of their cars and into buses is good for the environment, traffic flow and future investment.
If you means test, the rich pensioners will inevitably have cars so they’ll just go back to those.
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Honestly I hope they do this. Too many rich pensioners don’t need these sorts of benefits get them by default and don’t care. I’d rather they save some money and use the cash to help more people who may not be state pension age
Well, us old bastards are going to pay for staying alive to long. We’re being punished to warn the rest of you in our new less comfortable world. I expect to see at some point Euthanasia being discussed.
I’m sure Labour have looked at their expenses and seen the disproportionate amount that pensioners have been getting when compared to others but they need to tread carefully. Working families need to see some relief and more people struggling isn’t going to help overall.
I’m not disagreeing with this choice.
We should give bus passes to everyone, not just school-aged children and pensioners.
Where does the cost of an OAP bus pass fall? Does the DWP have to pay the local bus companies for them?
My parents have qualified for them for nearly 30 years now and I’m very confident in saying my Dad hasn’t taken a bus once in that time. Did it cost anyone anything if he did have one? If he had used one would it have cost anyone anything more than marginal impact on any overcrowding and a tiny amount of additional fuel by increasing the weight being moved by a half of one percent?
On the flip side for the last few years of his now (thankfully) terminated driving it would certainly have been better for everyone if he had been in a bus.
I don’t want old people driving – their reaction times are worse than younger people after a few drinks. Let them keep the bus pass.
Will they scrap it for the 71% of social housing that don’t do a days work and can’t speak a word of English nor even want to?
Well, mine is gifted to me by Czar Khan, and the London Boroughs. It allows me to travel after 9:30. We know it colloquially as the TWIRLY Card. As in “Oh, have you turned up too early as well?”
Considering how much of our society has been built around needing a vehicle to get around I think the least we can do is allow those who don’t have access to such a vehicle a way to do so.
Not sure about this one. Getting people out of their cars and into buses is good for the environment, traffic flow and future investment.
If you means test, the rich pensioners will inevitably have cars so they’ll just go back to those.