“I’ve got dementia…I’ve probably got five years. If I’m lucky. I could drop dead now. And to have Keir Starmer do that to us – it’s heartbreaking.” That was the verdict of just one of the pensioners this lunchtime to the Government’s cuts to the Winter Fuel Allowance. It was chucking it down at the protest organised by the Unite Union but they came anyway. To stand in the pouring rain beneath the Liverpool Wheel. One elderly lady had brought her friend, Lynn, in a wheelchair. They’ve been friends since they were 15. They are worried about winter: “Last winter we were freezing. And every day we…
