After celebrating their best ever general Election Results, The Party is the third biggest in parliament. Some of its members are here as mps for the first time. The mood is so upbeat, it is so buoyant but we are really determined to get stuff done. The reason we fight in elections and we win elections is so we can achieve things for our community so i am excited to be talking about our plan fixing Social Care and the health service, and how we really represent our community to be that strong, determined opposition to the government and represent our community is the best possible way we can. The Liberal Democrats achieved record Election Results by pitching themselves in opposition to the conservatives. Raising the question of what to do now that labour are in power. The party says it wants to offer a constructive opposition, challenging ministers on policies they dont like, such as the recent cut in the Winter Fuel Allowance. And they want to use this platform to put forward their ow
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As ministers voted today, they should be in no doubt, the firstjob is to keep people safe, them every single day, protect them every single day, they make the hardest budgetary decisions, harderthan they make the hardest budgetary decisions, harder than those of the treasury, because they have no choice and they have to put a roof over their head and they have to pay for their food. And they have to pay for their heating. We note that now the sums are not adding up and we are getting the letters coming in, and the constituents are scared and they are telling us they are frightened, as they will not switch to switch because they know if they do, they will have bills they cannot pay, and we need to protect those vulnerable people and i commend my friend for driving forward the ambition to get 880,000 pensioners signed up get 880,000 pensioners signed up to Pension Credit. I really hope that people will test the system and make sure they can. 243 system and make sure they can. 215 questio
Finances were in a dire state. Hang on. There was this 22 Billion black hole. We spend 1200 Billion billion black hole. We spend i200 billion pounds every year in this 22 Billion so called black hole, a mere accounting device. In this whole debate, what the Labour Government are trying to do was to make the political point that the Conservative Party ran the country into the ground and therefore weve got to punish therefore weve got to punish the pensioners. It is absolute and complete rubbish. And what those we represent cant understand, these people who worked hard all their lives, have done their bit for the country, their total package is perhaps 13 or £14,000 a year. What they cant understand is that this so called saving of public money is actually going to go to Train Drivers who own £70,000 a year. Theyjust dont understand it. So for god sake, lets have a serious debate. Lets try to unite on this issue and lets not keep taking away benefits from people just above the Pension
Is fully behind the action that we are taking. The member for shipley with her huge experience in health and social care, talked about the need to work with those in supported Accommodation And Housing associations and the nhs to make sure pensioners get the help they are entitled to and i will spell some of the action out. The Memberfor Rossendale and darwen made a strong case for targeting health on the poorest pensioners and the need to tackle the root causes of poverty including insulating homes and bring Energy Costs down. And the memberfor pool, one of the things he said was the long and complex form for Pension Credit which i have asked to be reduced to make it asked to be reduced to make it as simple as possible. I would like to start by setting out why we have taken the difficult decision to means Test Winter Fuel payments so they are no longer available to all pensioners whatever their income. But focused on those in greatest need. Put simply, it is because we must fix the fo