Cold temperatures are known to cause significant increase in mortality, there is a causal link that is well understood. You don't need an BMBS to know this. While I accept the philosophical premise that we cannot predict the future with certainty, I think @jcdenton is justified to assert that removing WFA will cause deaths. The alternative is to count them afterwards, that would be much better wouldn't it? I also think AgeUK are quite a reliable source, they fund quite a bit of research and some of that is how to keep older people with comorbities alive.
Before.Shameful
Was that before or after your post about the breaking story of Harold Wilson receiving a Gannex rain coat?
Good job Cameron scrapped to all the green crap in 2015, a decade of missed opportunity to insulate the most leaky housing stock in Northern Europe
4,950 excess winter deaths caused by cold homes last winter
Excess winter deaths have increased as records show that when winter temperatures drop below 4 degrees, deaths caused by cold homes increase.www.endfuelpoverty.org.uk
These are the statistics for the last few years including this winter past, which included the WFA.
In April 2022 there was a 54% increase in the domestic energy price cap, leading to several thousand further deaths year on year.
On October 1st this year, the price cap raises again a further 10%, after a minor drop in price in the last 12 months. On average, households are paying over 29% more than two years ago and now with the poorest and most vulnerable without WFA offsetting some of the difference.
The year after WFA was introduced, confirmed deaths from cold homes have fallen in line with mean winter temperatures. Here are the government statistics showing a correlation between colder temperatures and numbers of deaths from cold homes.
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The Tories were horrible in government. But this one isn’t about the Tories. Even using the £22bn black hole as reasoning for the WFA cut, the estimated £1.7bn saving isn’t going to touch the sides. It’s a very poor policy.
I don’t disagree - You’ve quoted me out of context though.
If your employer pays for free medical cover it is not completely free as you will pay tax on it, I certainly did.
I think you may be being a little oversensitive to my comment back at HT. He was being an arse doubling down on his entirely false opinion about my motives for posting the thread, despite my assertions to the contrary. The comment was entirely aimed at him.
Wouldnt happen in Germany
Your private medical cover is paid for by your employer, and the reason he pays it is that it's part of your remuneration. In exchange, your employer gets the benefit of your labour.
Quite rightly, but what is being discussed is the even handedness of the press.
what was it about 'digging' you said yesterday?
Plenty hate private health care over here. Life cover used to be encouraged with tax incentive. Had a savings scheme which included life insurance where state paid 20% of my premium. Stopped that for new products years ago & eventually stopped it for existing, still helped me to buy a nice new car when I retired, thank you HMG.Wouldnt happen in Germany
We can claim private health insurance, and life insurance for that matter, against our personal tax bill. I claim both.
No it isn't. Only by people seeking to deflect by saying, "Yerbut..."
And there we have it. Doubling down on being wrong. No apology. And I wasn't even replying to you. Do you always persist in your 'beliefs' and 'opinions' when you have been told categorically by the originator that you are wrong? I'll leave you to have the last word because you can't stop yourself. But I won't be opening the alert when it pops up. Enjoy your day.
Where’s the lack of trust? It was all declared and as I pointed out, most Prime Ministers get perks.
