Alan Ferrier on Nostr: If keeping pensioners warm this winter could have collapsed the UK economy and caused ...

If keeping pensioners warm this winter could have collapsed the UK economy and caused a run on the pound then there is something deeply, deeply wrong with the UK economy.

If, as we are continually reminded, "the sixth-largest national economy in the world," cannot afford to let its elderly folk live out their years in a modicum of comfort, then what's the fucking point?