alt Hacker News> Starmer’s winter fuel allowance for example.
To me this is a prime example of the problem - they were really just fucking around at the edges anyway. It wasn't any sort of major reform. That old scene from Futurama often springs to mind -
"I say that your 3% Titanium tax goes too far!"
"And I say that your 3% Titanium tax doesn't go too far enough!"
I do agree the press are complicit though.
Completely. That was the thing about the winter fuel allowance. It was largely a nothing burger and yet they couldn’t allow them to get it through. You could see almost immediately after they pulled back, what little confidence and ability the government had melt away. It’s been more of the same ever since