Is the winter fuel payment cut the first big misstep?
James O'Brien - The Whole Show
Global
4.3 • 913 Ratings
🗓️ 23 August 2024
⏱️ 158 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Looking for a reason to plan your next trip. |
| 0:02.0 | Well, Premier Inn has over a million rooms at 45 pounds a night. |
| 0:06.0 | So that's a million reasons to tick wild winter swimming off the bucket list. |
| 0:10.0 | A million reasons to book in for a family visit to the theatre. |
| 0:14.0 | And a million reasons to bond with your team away from the office. |
| 0:18.0 | Do your thing. Get better sleep for your money. |
| 0:22.3 | With over a million rooms for 45 pounds a night. |
| 0:25.0 | Book now at premier in.com. |
| 0:27.1 | Selected locations. |
| 0:28.3 | Exclusions and tis and seas apply. |
| 0:30.1 | Ten millions are very big number. |
| 0:31.7 | It really is. |
| 0:32.6 | And possibly bigger than you realized the number of pensioners who are set to lose their winter fuel |
| 0:39.0 | payment. I am generally in favour of universal benefits. Sadiq Khan explains it well when he |
| 0:46.2 | justifies his decision to roll out free school meals to every primary school child in London, there's something nice |
| 0:55.5 | about universal benefits. The idea that people who don't need something get something is easily |
| 1:01.5 | turned into a negative, but it's actually a positive. It's a weird endorsement of equality, |
| 1:08.4 | social equality, isn't it? And yet, if money is tight, then giving money |
| 1:14.3 | from that pot to people who really don't need it becomes ever more questionable and arguably |
| 1:22.0 | ever more wrong. So I think that I subscribe, I mean, if I have an opinion on this, it would be that it's probably right to means test the winter fuel payment. |
| 1:33.3 | But I think the government have got this wrong. |
| 1:35.5 | But I am very susceptible to the argument that they shouldn't really have taken it away from anybody. |
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