Well, the Winter Fuel Allowance has gone for 10 million pensioners.
It was a very big parliamentary majority of 120 for the government, although one Labour MP, John Trickett did vote against his own party, and about 52 abstained. But still a very big victory.
We're told, of course, this is all about plugging the black hole of £22billion that Labour say they found. Although rather more cynically, I'd say the black hole is £2.7trillion, which is the size of the national debt.
Some of the response to this has been pretty extraordinary, and one of my constituents who has spoken out really strongly on this is Jim O'Dwyer.
Nigel Farage reacts to Labour's cut of the Winter Fuel Allowance
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Now I mentioned Jim because he's somebody that I met during the campaign, and he's 99 years old, and he did 31 missions in a Lancaster bomber as ‘tail end Charlie’ in World War Two.
And the reason he won't get the Winter Fuel Allowance is because he has a very, very small private pension that comes in.
And Jim O’Dwyer is very clear about it. He says, Look, this is disgusting, after all I've done for the country. Why am I being treated this way?
Now, of course, there are wealthy pensioners that were getting the Winter Fuel Allowance, but quite why we couldn't pick up the idea that Lord Cameron pushed, that we just don't give the allowance to those paying 40p tax or more, I just don't know.
I wonder, is this Labour's great folly?
And the quote from my constituent was: "We pay in all our lives and this small perk is cut. It is absolutely disgusting what this government is doing and the way they're treating us after all we've done for our country."
And I bet you over the course of the next few days you'll see a lot more Jim O’Dwyer’s appearing in our tabloid newspapers, I'm fairly certain of it.
