Gordon Browns new initative to Help folks pay their fuel bills?, discussion please?

Question

So Now Gordon Brown is going to give families on Child Benefit money to help pay their Fuel bills, if I aint mistaken everyone who has a child gets Child benefit whether rich or poor!!!, I applaud this intitative for the poor but what about the rest of us, im unemployed and get incapacity genuinely and am having to pay £100 DD for my Fuel bills what about helping us out as well MR Brown!!!

Answer 1

This is just another in a very long line of very stupid idea's from the miserable imbecile. Where is he going to get the money to pay for it? Probably from another round of tax increases, meaning everybody else will not be able to pay for their fule, but will get no help. What about the elderly? Does he seriously expect 70 somethings to start procreating just to get child benefit? Come on Gordon, go play blind mans buff in a minefield.

Answer 2

Congratulations! If you have a paycheck, your taxes will be going up to help others pay THEIR fuel bill. Isn't socialism wonderful?

Answer 3

As Labour are planning an election next spring this is just blatant electioneering, hence a one off payment! The country is broke, it will have to be paid for from somewhere, no prizes for guessing where it will come from. Anyone stupid enough to fall for yet another of Labours bribes has only themselves to blame when taxes go up to pay for it.

Answer 4

It's just another cynical bribe isn't it.

Answer 5

It will probably be for those with gas and electric heating.  I have oil fired heating, and was over £350 for 500 litres back in June.  I have a disabled son, and I am  his carer, and I also suffer from Ill health so I am unable to work.  My husband is on average wages,  but when winter comes, we will probably struggle to make sure the house is warm.  

How about he helps genuine folks like yourself and us, instead of all the immigrants who come over to our country and claim all the benefits they can.

Answer 6

i too applaud any initiative from Gordon Brown, however why is he again helping those that can afford it i am all for help to the elderly and those who struggle on a low income, those on benefits already get help with fuel bills, what is not fair is those of us that work hard but struggle to heat our homes in the winter, despite our income, again the rich will get richer!

when i say people on benefits get help i meant families on benefits as i have a neighbour who gets cold weather payments if the temperature drops below a certain level

Answer 7

If this is true!It is another of those Labour initiatives timed to buy Gordon Brown time and buy the Labour party votes!

The problem is!We have seen all this political bribing before!We all know that someone has to pay for all these Labour bribes!Take it from me!It will not be those  Labour MPs!They will have City Accountants and solicitors looking after their tax returns! It will be the ordinary worker who will be taxed up to his/her neck!

I have been a Labour supporter for 50years!Not now!A vote for Labour is a vote for incompetence and ineptitude!

Isn't it marvellous!How these politicians will stoop to every trick in the political book to stay in power!Does having the chance to dip their fingers in the expenses accounts mean that much to a Labour politician!What about good old fashioned honest politics of Bessie Braddock and Jack Jones!That  honest Liverpudlian duo!Not this money grabbing lot!

Answer 8

It is a ridiculous idea because, once again, it completely fails to reach the people it is targeted to help. People who are very poor yet have no children will not receive the money, whilst people who are able to afford their fuel bills and have children will. Elderly people will also not get any money.

And where is he going to get the money from? We as a country cannot afford it. It is ridiculous to get the country into more debt in the current climate. The government should either give extra money to those who are on benefits, pensions etc. or come up with some other way of targeting those who really need the money, instead of wasting it on those who can afford to pay their bills.

The utilities including gas and electric should never have been privatised, that way the government could use the profit made to cut prices.

Answer 9

im sick of gordon brown trying to buy votes.  

Answer 10

If true - as reported here - it would be idiocy even by the standards of this Monty Python government.  All those receiving child benefit - including higher rate taxpayers?

It might make more sense to make winter fuel payments - clawed back from the thieving suppliers by way of a windfall tax - to all those below the higher tax rate.

What they won't do, however,  is what needs to be done - take command of the situation, take over the energy companies (and no compensation for these fat cats), use the buying muscle of the state and regulate prices as far as possible.

That, and reopening as many as possible of the pits closed by Thatcher, is what a real Labour government would do.  Pity we don't have one.

Answer 11

i guess if you have no kids the credit crunch doesn't affect you. we can foot the bill for this though I'm sure.

Answer 12

fueling the bill  

Answer 13

True. I hate how to get one financial thing you need to be getting a different one. Stupid.

Answer 14

It's not an initiative, it's a conversation overheard on a train. It won't happen, because it's clearly a very stupid idea.