We won’t get fuelled again

Published: 31 March, 2011

• THE winter fuel allowance is to be reduced by £50 for pensioners. 

Those over 80 will lose £100. But this is not a reduction, insists a spokesperson. It’s just that they won’t be paying the temporary “top-up” introduced by Gordon Brown’s Labour government.

When is a reduction not a reduction? When Osborne says so?

J L PROWSE
Harmood Street, NW1