What have the last few governments done to us all, that we seem to be at each other's throats, is any of this discussion helping anyone to look at what the real issues are? Not everyone is well off, not everyone has, or will have, a pension that allows for a good quality of retirement, or was even able to acquire one (much has changed with pensions / employment and I fear more changes are to come, so be prepared) far too many have seen wages not follow inflation and the policies of the last few governments, whatever their persuasion (and I am beginning to think they only really care for themselves regardless of party) have got us all infighting, with a constant erosion of what makes us happy and healthy, or am I not seeing things in the right way? So much is wrong and it is not whether someone can / cannot manage with losing a fuel allowance, it is why everything seems to be such a struggle, regardless of age, for an ever increasing majority of us, regardless of age! Why is our government not looking at the whole, as picking on low hanging fruit, without a balanced approach to the whole, seems to be doing no one any good, does it and is it a deliberate policy to set one age group against another? I have just read that a supposed affluent county council is now about to ditch its school food provision, as it can't afford to run it, so who can? A minor thing, yes and no, as that's how we end up with paying into pots where nobody benefits ultimately, when we neglect the basics and somehow magically assume there is always someone, somewhere, with a magic wand to pick up the pieces and there isn't, or at least not from where I sit, which is helping the most deprived in our country. Let's not think one group is an homogenous set of individuals, let's look at how the government is pushing us into making that assumption and ask why? Just my thoughts, but I do think we are being pushed into a way of thinking that is becoming detrimental to us all.