Lack of imagination is leading the government into trouble.

It’s not the winter fuel allowance,it’s the disparity between the rich and the poor.

Many people are criticizing the government for deciding to stop paying this extra two or three hundred pounds once a year to pensioners.

Some of the more right-wing newspapers are publishing pathetic stories about old people probably dying of Cancer or other diseases who will be badly affected by losing 200 pounds a year.

But nobody mentions the fact that they enormous gap now in this country between the rich and the poor it’s got wider under the conservative government. And there are many people but elderly and young and middle aged who are very poor and cannot afford enough heating in the winter.

If there was more equality of income and in particular less gigantic bonuses for people at the top of companies such as water and electricity and so on then nobody would need the winter fuel allowance. And if you are a really poor pensioner then even

£ 200  extra is not sufficient to pay to heat even a small flat for the long British winter

But of course it is an error by this government because it can make headlines.

It seems to be a lack of imagination, did they not realize how the right wing press would use this?

I hope this is not a sign of some weakness of imagination and some lack of intelligent thought about how such decisions will play out in public.

We dont want the prople at the bottom of my society to suffer like they did when the cConservatives won the election and defeated Gordon brown. Too much suffering already.

So I am glad that we’ve got a new government of a different sort but I hope they will be able to take advice about choosing rightly how to get more money to do what needs to be done.