Free Tv License, Bus Passes, And Winter Fuel Allowance, Are These Bribes To Try And...

[sandyRoe]

...secure the pensioners' vote?

http://www.theweek.co.uk/politics/56710/pensioner-perks-osborne-and-cameron-target-grey-vote

[VHG]

The free TV license and Winter Fuel Allowance were introduced by Gordon Brown for Labour.

[Old_Geezer]

They may be given in the hope of a similar result, but I'm unsure it is a bribe unless it is something extra, rather than a promise not to take something away. Not sure, maybe blackmail is a better description ? ;-)

[Old_Geezer]

That said if they don't get in then they have limited power to take away anything.
So scaremongering then, perhaps.

[Jackdaw33]

This is over a year old, hardly news.

[sandyRoe]

It's news to me.

[Jackdaw33]

Your link is dated January 2014.

[Svejk]

///High earners in council houses include Bob Crow, leader of the RMT rail union, who earns £145,000 a year and lives in a council house ///

Don't think so. Bit out of date, sandy.

[whistonian]

Probably you are to young to have taken any notice Sandy. I have been qualified for years but never bothered with the bus pass.

[sandyRoe]

Here's a more recent link. In saying the Tories will let pensioners keep their perks is he not implying that others would not?
Svejk, do you not think it spoke well of Bob Crow that he didn't let success go to his head and continued to live in an area he knew?

http://uk.reuters.com/article/2015/02/23/uk-britain-politics-cameron-idUKKBN0LR13V20150223

[Svejk]

I was fairly ambivalent about Crow's living arrangements.
Just tickled me to read he was living anywhere.

[sandyRoe]

Heaven now, I think.