Any thoughts?
One relatively small point did strike me as a good example of how the media play soft with the Tories is the handling of the promise to scrap winter fuel payments to "better-off pensioners" with no definition of better-off. When Hunt was asked about this he waffled about deciding the level after the election but he also made it clear that it would be means-tested so it is paid only to the poorest who are most at risk of fuel poverty. In other words most of the current recipients will no longer get the winter fuel payment yet this is consistently presented as just affecting wealthier pensioners.
So if you are Labour wealthy means earning over £80k and for the Tories it means anyone not in poverty.
One relatively small point did strike me as a good example of how the media play soft with the Tories is the handling of the promise to scrap winter fuel payments to "better-off pensioners" with no definition of better-off. When Hunt was asked about this he waffled about deciding the level after the election but he also made it clear that it would be means-tested so it is paid only to the poorest who are most at risk of fuel poverty. In other words most of the current recipients will no longer get the winter fuel payment yet this is consistently presented as just affecting wealthier pensioners.
So if you are Labour wealthy means earning over £80k and for the Tories it means anyone not in poverty.