Chesterfield winter fuel payment vox pop
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00:00What do you think about the government voting for the few old cats?
00:04Well, I'm not happy about it, but they've got to find the money one way or another,
00:10one person or another, and it's a very difficult job for them, but it's hitting the wrong people.
00:19Are you personally affected by it?
00:22I will be, yeah.
00:24Well, I think it's wrong.
00:26What about the roads that take you down to Loughborough?
00:28They seem to be blaming the Tories for everything, don't they?
00:33No, it's not right. It isn't. That's hitting us poor old pensioners, isn't it?
00:40Well, I'm not as bad off as them a lot, but I still don't think it's right,
00:47and well, it's going to happen and that's it, isn't it? I think they're
00:52throwing the carrot down for next year now. They're going to increase our pensions
00:56next year. That's if we survive through this year.
01:00What do you think about the government voting for the winter school?
01:04It's disgusting.
01:06Will you be affected by it?
01:08Yes.
01:09Obviously, they have to make cabs now. Do you think that the decision that they decided to
01:13make them on pensioners' few old paper, do you think they should make cabs somewhere else?
01:18Well, they should do it somewhere else, because they're stopping bus passes as well, aren't they?
01:23And I've heard it might be free prescriptions they're stopping,
01:26so it's pensioners they're attacking.
01:30Yesterday, government voted for cabs to the winter fuel payment.
01:34What do you think about that decision?
01:37No, very good. No.
01:40As I say, no matter what we say, they'll do it anyway, won't they?
01:44Will you be affected by this?
01:46Yes.
01:47Obviously, yeah.
01:48I will.
01:49We probably won't be able to go out quite as much as we do.
01:52No, no.
01:54So...
01:54Mark, if you've got anything wrong with you, like me, you need eating on, don't you?
02:00You know, you're not going to be able to keep it on.
02:04Because everything will go up, won't it?
02:06Like it has done before.
02:08Taxi fares now, they're horrendous, aren't they?
02:11You know, in the short distance and...
02:13Yeah, everything.
02:16I'm not impressed. Not impressed at all.
02:20Last year was the first year that I actually qualified for it, and I did get it.
02:26And it was a huge help, to be honest.
02:28But I think that the main thing for me is, though,
02:32please, can they keep the triple lock on our pensions?
02:35That's the main thing.
02:37I can forgive them of this if we keep the triple lock.
02:40If we don't, no.
02:42I wasn't sure about Labour anyway,
02:44so I wasn't sure about anyone, to be honest.
02:47But yeah, I mean, well, I just hope the people that need it get it.