If Socially Conservative Social Democracy means anything other than vibes than means 'give money to old people'. So why did cut the WFA? Ah, well, that's because of sensible economics.
January 1, 2026 at 3:15 PM
If Socially Conservative Social Democracy means anything other than vibes than means 'give money to old people'. So why did cut the WFA? Ah, well, that's because of sensible economics.
Not all pensioners are Daily Mail readers but WFA outraged many Labour people who were not directly impacted. Ditto benefits and disgraceful anti-immigrant rhetoric...
January 1, 2026 at 1:11 PM
Not all pensioners are Daily Mail readers but WFA outraged many Labour people who were not directly impacted. Ditto benefits and disgraceful anti-immigrant rhetoric...
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Middlesbrough (WFA Cup)
Sun 18 Jan | 1pm | MGroup Stadium
Cheltenham Town
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AFC Wimbledon
Sun 4 Jan | 1pm | Plough Lane
Middlesbrough (WFA Cup)
Sun 18 Jan | 1pm | MGroup Stadium
Cheltenham Town
Sun 25 Jan | 2pm | MGroup Stadium
🎟️ Tickets available now: www.eticketing.co.uk/oxfordunited...
January 1, 2026 at 11:57 AM
Sunday’s match against AFC Wimbledon is now a 1pm kickoff 👀
AFC Wimbledon
Sun 4 Jan | 1pm | Plough Lane
Middlesbrough (WFA Cup)
Sun 18 Jan | 1pm | MGroup Stadium
Cheltenham Town
Sun 25 Jan | 2pm | MGroup Stadium
🎟️ Tickets available now: www.eticketing.co.uk/oxfordunited...
AFC Wimbledon
Sun 4 Jan | 1pm | Plough Lane
Middlesbrough (WFA Cup)
Sun 18 Jan | 1pm | MGroup Stadium
Cheltenham Town
Sun 25 Jan | 2pm | MGroup Stadium
🎟️ Tickets available now: www.eticketing.co.uk/oxfordunited...
Labour lies:
PIP cuts will move people into work, lie
ID cards will stop asylum seekers working, lie
Brutal asylum &immigration changes will cut racism, lie
WFA cuts, we’ll look after the poorest, not if you get £12k pa, lie
USA trade deal, lie
Not increasing income tax, lie
PIP cuts will move people into work, lie
ID cards will stop asylum seekers working, lie
Brutal asylum &immigration changes will cut racism, lie
WFA cuts, we’ll look after the poorest, not if you get £12k pa, lie
USA trade deal, lie
Not increasing income tax, lie
January 1, 2026 at 10:18 AM
Labour lies:
PIP cuts will move people into work, lie
ID cards will stop asylum seekers working, lie
Brutal asylum &immigration changes will cut racism, lie
WFA cuts, we’ll look after the poorest, not if you get £12k pa, lie
USA trade deal, lie
Not increasing income tax, lie
PIP cuts will move people into work, lie
ID cards will stop asylum seekers working, lie
Brutal asylum &immigration changes will cut racism, lie
WFA cuts, we’ll look after the poorest, not if you get £12k pa, lie
USA trade deal, lie
Not increasing income tax, lie
Plus he totally kicked 10% of Labours core base as soon as he gained power. The WFA cut. The attack on benefits and the raising of Council tax. Plus his and Reeves total disintrest in lowering utility bills. Water/Electric/Gas all gone up without a care for consumers who were already struggling.
January 1, 2026 at 1:49 AM
Plus he totally kicked 10% of Labours core base as soon as he gained power. The WFA cut. The attack on benefits and the raising of Council tax. Plus his and Reeves total disintrest in lowering utility bills. Water/Electric/Gas all gone up without a care for consumers who were already struggling.
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January 1, 2026 at 1:29 AM
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Ok, so changes to the WFA are reasonable?
The implementation was clumsy, happy to agree with that.
But I don’t think it constitutes an ‘attack on the elderly’, so are you talking about something else?
The implementation was clumsy, happy to agree with that.
But I don’t think it constitutes an ‘attack on the elderly’, so are you talking about something else?
December 31, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Ok, so changes to the WFA are reasonable?
The implementation was clumsy, happy to agree with that.
But I don’t think it constitutes an ‘attack on the elderly’, so are you talking about something else?
The implementation was clumsy, happy to agree with that.
But I don’t think it constitutes an ‘attack on the elderly’, so are you talking about something else?
No. I absolutely do not think that.
The WFA was ridiculous. The only thing more ridiculous was how Labour implemented it and handled the fallout.
Pretty much set the tone for their entire stint so far.
The achievements they have made have gone unsung beside A) the media are skinning them alive &
The WFA was ridiculous. The only thing more ridiculous was how Labour implemented it and handled the fallout.
Pretty much set the tone for their entire stint so far.
The achievements they have made have gone unsung beside A) the media are skinning them alive &
December 31, 2025 at 9:29 PM
No. I absolutely do not think that.
The WFA was ridiculous. The only thing more ridiculous was how Labour implemented it and handled the fallout.
Pretty much set the tone for their entire stint so far.
The achievements they have made have gone unsung beside A) the media are skinning them alive &
The WFA was ridiculous. The only thing more ridiculous was how Labour implemented it and handled the fallout.
Pretty much set the tone for their entire stint so far.
The achievements they have made have gone unsung beside A) the media are skinning them alive &
Do you think the WFA should be paid to millionaire pensioners, pensioners living in Spain etc.?
December 31, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Do you think the WFA should be paid to millionaire pensioners, pensioners living in Spain etc.?
For example take the posts of Laindon who started this thread.
I haven’t seen her acknowledge that even maybe a little, the way the leadership has conducted government has business has contributed to the current unpopularity.
WFA? Israel Gaza? On it goes. The good stuff hasn’t broken through
I haven’t seen her acknowledge that even maybe a little, the way the leadership has conducted government has business has contributed to the current unpopularity.
WFA? Israel Gaza? On it goes. The good stuff hasn’t broken through
December 31, 2025 at 8:41 PM
For example take the posts of Laindon who started this thread.
I haven’t seen her acknowledge that even maybe a little, the way the leadership has conducted government has business has contributed to the current unpopularity.
WFA? Israel Gaza? On it goes. The good stuff hasn’t broken through
I haven’t seen her acknowledge that even maybe a little, the way the leadership has conducted government has business has contributed to the current unpopularity.
WFA? Israel Gaza? On it goes. The good stuff hasn’t broken through
Lost his way so far it would require a complete u turn, such a shame, i had visions of a Blair like revolution from '97, but just a huge damp squib of his own doing, dropping the WFA was the start of the rot, never recovered from that howler.
December 31, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Lost his way so far it would require a complete u turn, such a shame, i had visions of a Blair like revolution from '97, but just a huge damp squib of his own doing, dropping the WFA was the start of the rot, never recovered from that howler.
Now someone at the HHS Administration for Children and Families will have to find this fraud or they will lose their job. This is a strange way to reduce WFA. Claim Waste then eliminate funding followed by the "discovery" of "Fraud" meanwhile the kids suffer the Abuse of no childcare.
unvarnished gutter racism and Nazism from the president. a disgrace to our country.
December 31, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Now someone at the HHS Administration for Children and Families will have to find this fraud or they will lose their job. This is a strange way to reduce WFA. Claim Waste then eliminate funding followed by the "discovery" of "Fraud" meanwhile the kids suffer the Abuse of no childcare.
Yes, they should have been far more alert to the sentiments attached to WFA. But in reality it's a payment which has long ceased to play any meaningful part of pensioner income. They got mauled for taking away £200, meanwhile the state pension has gone up by £1000 in 2 years and is met with silence.
December 31, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Yes, they should have been far more alert to the sentiments attached to WFA. But in reality it's a payment which has long ceased to play any meaningful part of pensioner income. They got mauled for taking away £200, meanwhile the state pension has gone up by £1000 in 2 years and is met with silence.
But surely the point is that they did in fact change it, and the policy as it actually is now is sensible - those who need WFA get it automatically, but those with higher incomes who don't need it don't. Ofc it would have much better if the current set up had been the starting position.
December 31, 2025 at 4:19 PM
But surely the point is that they did in fact change it, and the policy as it actually is now is sensible - those who need WFA get it automatically, but those with higher incomes who don't need it don't. Ofc it would have much better if the current set up had been the starting position.
On the economics side, a *lot* of their problems are down to Jeremy Hunt cutting £20bn from NI contributions, & Labour being too cowardly to say they'd reverse it. Explains Reeves's stupid/desperate mistake of trying to save a few measly quid by cutting WFA & trying to cut some social benefits.
December 31, 2025 at 4:13 PM
On the economics side, a *lot* of their problems are down to Jeremy Hunt cutting £20bn from NI contributions, & Labour being too cowardly to say they'd reverse it. Explains Reeves's stupid/desperate mistake of trying to save a few measly quid by cutting WFA & trying to cut some social benefits.
That does not appear to be correct. WFA is taken back from those with income over 35k through the tax system. If you are on any government benefit you don't even need to claim, you get it automatically.
www.gov.uk/winter-fuel-...
www.gov.uk/winter-fuel-...
December 31, 2025 at 3:46 PM
That does not appear to be correct. WFA is taken back from those with income over 35k through the tax system. If you are on any government benefit you don't even need to claim, you get it automatically.
www.gov.uk/winter-fuel-...
www.gov.uk/winter-fuel-...
You think those losing WFA (i.e. income over £35k) are victims?
December 31, 2025 at 3:10 PM
You think those losing WFA (i.e. income over £35k) are victims?
See my first point.
WFA is a minor issue under any accounting analysis, especially compared to the overall rise in state pension. But people aren't rational and the unpopularity of the measure was predictable.
WFA is a minor issue under any accounting analysis, especially compared to the overall rise in state pension. But people aren't rational and the unpopularity of the measure was predictable.
December 31, 2025 at 2:06 PM
See my first point.
WFA is a minor issue under any accounting analysis, especially compared to the overall rise in state pension. But people aren't rational and the unpopularity of the measure was predictable.
WFA is a minor issue under any accounting analysis, especially compared to the overall rise in state pension. But people aren't rational and the unpopularity of the measure was predictable.
but ultimately you don’t end up in as bad a position without WFA and employer NI
December 31, 2025 at 1:41 PM
but ultimately you don’t end up in as bad a position without WFA and employer NI
Their most unpopular choices (WFA, attempted disability cuts) have all come from attempting to nickel & dime their way back to fiscal headroom
December 31, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Their most unpopular choices (WFA, attempted disability cuts) have all come from attempting to nickel & dime their way back to fiscal headroom
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December 31, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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I had a long thread written out but the app closed and it's deleted so here are some mostly-formed thoughts: it's a mixture of their central problem (lack of a clear mission), unforced errors (WFA) and a failure to recognise the information environment they're operating in
Glad the FT is asking the question. Even if I’m not convinced they found a compelling answer.
I get that Starmer & Reeves are unpopular, I really don’t understand the extent of the dislike.
www.ft.com/content/1995... ‘There’s a real dislike, even loathing’: why voters hate Starmer and Reeves
I get that Starmer & Reeves are unpopular, I really don’t understand the extent of the dislike.
www.ft.com/content/1995... ‘There’s a real dislike, even loathing’: why voters hate Starmer and Reeves
‘There’s a real dislike, even loathing’: why voters hate Starmer and Reeves
Allies concede the prime minister and chancellor have made mistakes yet the level of disdain towards them is still striking
www.ft.com
December 31, 2025 at 12:56 PM
I had a long thread written out but the app closed and it's deleted so here are some mostly-formed thoughts: it's a mixture of their central problem (lack of a clear mission), unforced errors (WFA) and a failure to recognise the information environment they're operating in
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December 31, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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December 31, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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