It's Insulting The Way Pensioners Are Being Grovelled Over.

I just feel that announcing it now is clearly an "election gambit". GSM - if its key policy it could have been announced in the budget

I suspect we are in for a carefully calculated "announcement" every 4 to 5 days now designed to appeal to traditional conservative voters and hold the headlines.

I think it's a good idea we've paid our tax dues all our life, well the ones who worked did. A vote winner if you are a pensioner and pay tax.

Well I think it's a great idea and am pleased that at last pensioners have been mentioned instead of "working families" all the time (not that I'm against them being helped with the cost of living too). Grovel away! I'm not insulted.

We have had so many posters complaining that the tax threshold hasn’t been raised and as a consequence they are paying tax on their pension income. Now that they will receive an allowance to ensure that they don’t pay tax on their SP, they complain and say they are being insulted and grovelled over. You couldn’t make it up.

Re Sunak "big announcement"

I think all very low income citizens should be protected tax wise.
Labour have to date committed the triple lock for 5 years ie the max length to the next general election. Realistically, thats as far as a "promise" can stand.

Pensioners managing on their state pension only even under triple lock will always fall under the tax threshold.

There are a number of additional benefits some pensioners can claim (including winter heating, pension credit, ) already - we need to hear about these too before "doing the sums"
www.ageuk.org.uk/information-advice/money-legal/benefits-entitlements/

Sunak seems to be grasping at straws. It doesn't impress me. He is desperately trying to bribe pensioners to vote Tory.

I shuddered when I saw that announcement. If they want to raise the tax threshold to benefit the lower paid all well and good, but there’s no need to say it’s to benefit pensioners. We already get enough criticism for being ‘a drain on the state and the workers’.

I think it should be law that everyone eligible has to vote so that at least a true picture of the country’s wishes is arrived at.
I believe this is the law in Australia?? Perhaps someone in Aus can correct me?

I treat attempts to buy my vote with utter contempt and reduces the probability of my voting for the party that sinks to such lows.

mae13
Your comments chime with a lot of what I’m reading including on this forum.So many are turned off politics, don’t know who to vote for, are politically homeless.Much more than usual.
Even tho Labour is way ahead in the polls it’s almost anyones guess what will actually happen on the day.

They need our votes - I have no doubt some elderly can be bribed - of course it won’t happen just as the 40 hospitals didn’t happen, levelling up didn’t happen, Rwanda didn’t happen, lower immigration didn’t happen, lower NHS waiting lists didn’t happen, and on and on.