Lee Anderson launches scathing attack on Labour over ‘disgusting’ winter fuel cuts: ‘Pensioners have cried to me!’

Lee Anderson has declared that Labour “should be ashamed of themselves” after MPs voted to cut the Winter Fuel Payment for pensioners.

The decision, which will impact around 10 million pensioners, was voted through Parliament today with almost 400 Labour MPs backing the move.

The motion received 348 votes to 228 with a majority of 120 in the House of Commons. All MPs who voted for the motion were Labour members.

Reacting to the decision, Reform UK MP Lee Anderson expressed his outrage at the Government for their “disgusting” decision to cut the pensioner benefit.

Anderson fumed: “Obviously I voted to keep the Winter Fuel Payment, this is a massive issue in my constituency. 19,000 pensioners in Ashfield, and this will affect 88 per cent of those.

“They keep talking about these black holes which they’ve created themselves with these massive public sector pay rises and foreign climate aid and all this other nonsense, they want to spaff our money.

“Next year we’ve got the county elections in Nottinghamshire, and I’m telling you now, this will be on every single leaflet. I will name and shame every single Labour MP in Nottinghamshire that voted for this pernicious, cruel act of Parliament.”

When questioned by GB News Political Editor Christopher Hope if the payments cuts have been “overblown” as a method of “scaremongering”, Anderson revealed that he’s had “pensioners crying” to him about how it will impact their abilities to live.

Anderson explained: “It’s not scaremongering at all. Lots of pensioners in my neck of the woods, and it’s not a rich area, they depend on this payment.

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“This £300 they get is a godsend, it helps them pay the fuel bills through the winter. I’ve had pensioners actually crying on the phone to me – it’s absolutely disgusting what this so-called socialist Government’s done.”

When pressed by Christopher on how significant he believes the impact will be on British pensioners, Anderson warned that this will “come back to bite” Starmer in the near future.

Anderson told GB News: “Sir Keir Starmer, what a snake he is. He was talking to old women who were riding around on buses all day on the free bus pass to keep warm. What a load of nonsense that was.

“It’s come back to bite him, but I guess they’re going to have to cut back on stuff. People may go round to each other’s houses, share the bills for the day, join clubs. And maybe we’ll see an explosion in bus travel.”

Hitting out at Labour directly, Anderson told Starmer and the Government that they should be “ashamed of themselves” for “stealing £300 from millions of pensioners”.

Anderson said: “Let’s be serious. What they’ve done today, they’ve been in that voting lobby, and they have stolen £300 off millions of vulnerable pensioners. And quite frankly, they should be ashamed themselves.

“They need to have a long, hard look at themselves in the mirror tonight and realise what they’ve done. Shameful, disgusting. Absolutely disgusting.”