The people that run our government should be ashamed they neglect the very people that put in there whole lives into the system to get robbed for there care ect when they get elderly but can’t do enough for foreigners our grandparents would turn in there graves
It's unbelievable that this is still the case in 2025, and Labour has done nothing to help, it has in fact, done the opposite. The older we get, the more we are vulnerable to cold temperatures, that's a fact. Starmer knows this, yet he was ok to take the only bit of financial help from the elderly. We pay the most in the world for our energy. It is disgusting.
Exactly , the governments we’ve had since the 1990s are corrupt disgusting glow ball ist WEF UN subservient scumbags but alas it’s the public who are to blame they keep voting for them because they are pig thick ignorant brain dead half wits who aren’t capable of critical thinking . We have the government we deserve 👏🏻👊🏼🏴🇬🇧
This is 2024 and I am a pensioner. I don't like to feel cold. What I do in winter when at home is to mostly stay in one room and I use a thick blanket to wrap around my lower body up to my torso whilst sitting. This works well for me and I don't get cold feet so much anymore. I am still an active person and live a relatively normal life in and out of the house. I do have heating but usage is timed for morning and evening and off in the daytime. The blanket really helps and I noted the old lady at the start of this video was not using one and even burnt her skin by sitting to close to her heater. My message=blankets are good !! (don't put them too near the heater though!)
Bless you for sharing your story I just don’t understand why our government doesn’t care about our elderly you of all people should gain the most from our public assistance but no my auntie is having to sell her house just to pay for my uncles care
I would say if you have heating - use it during the day as well. What is the point of any of us paying for something we don’t use, or that has to be rationed? if you are a pensioner, you need the heating more than anyone else, so just use it. I am in my fifties and I have problems paying my bills, I pay what I can, but if you are paying and not using it, or it is not heating your home adequately, what is the point of paying for it? Use it - at least you won’t be cold, and pay whatever you can on the bills. The energy company must be heartless if they can’t understand that a pensioner needs heat, not just in the morning and evening.
When World In Action was axed in 1998, it was the final piece in the jigsaw of crafting ITV to appeal to the largest low common denominator demographic possible. Investigative journalism? Nay, nay and thrice nay for the "new" sponsored junk food like ITV plc, which is run by people who know zip all about what constitutes "quality broadcasting". What chance has World In Action got in that television climate?
World in action was a tremendous investigative journalism program but sadly there is no way it would be permitted to make a comeback in this woke PC sh!thouse of a Nation we are forced to live in of today! 🤬✋️🇬🇧👊🏴
Dear old Thatcher was PM at this time. She was about to make things a whole lot worse in 1984. From the view I now have after living through as broad a spectrum of government as we have in the UK, it doesn't appear that any faction holds the masses as a major matter of concern in their plans. They're all working on behalf of the establishment, or they're smeared by the press and the public loses trust so they are lost to us.
Thank you so much for these uploads- I'm binge watching loads. These are so important, social history I find fascinating. Such interesting people who have such difficult lives, it's heartbreaking.
I don't want to get old. I've got kidney cancer and they said I could have Keyhole surgery.y family said get it, you've got another 20 years. No thanks. Not for this world..
Gives me even less desire to recover from anorexia ! At age 56 my dietician said , ' if u recover we could squeeze anotha 30 years out of u ' . She was 22 n didn't realise that this isn't a positive statement ! I don't want that , anyway ! This is so sad , u work hard n if u live to b older . ? ! X 😢
There are hundreds of those hotels, many housing around a couple of hundred of these men & EVERY one of those rooms inside has the heating blazing away 24 hrs a day 7 day's a week to the extent many of the bedroom windows are open! I mean who opens windows like that during the months of January & February here in Britain? The amount of money these people are costing the taxpayer is scandalous & our pensioners, our grandparents have to suffer in the cold while young men whom we know absolutely nothing about are put up in luxury hotels with good food, warm rooms, hot water, new clothes, new phone's with unlimited credit & as if all that isn't enough they're also given bank accounts & regular 'pocket money!!' I will never comprehend the Governments reasoning for accepting these men in spite of many calls of complaints pertaining to numbers of these men hanging round outside schools even primary schools & taking pictures of female pupils, they won't see this as wrong due to the teachings of their faith! Just another example of how this can never work & how we should stay within our own & keep to our side of the fence for oil & water do not mix!
Not really. Your reading it backwards. At which point in history, were elderly people not at risk of death by the cold. We're simply not the angelic perfect modern society people might think we should be. Regardless of progress in certain areas, this will always and has always existed. Always.
BLAME MARGARET THATCHER YOU MEAN WHO IS A CONSERVATIVE PRIME MINISTER FOR PRIVITISING GAS AND ELECTRIC IN THE 1980s SHE SOLD OUR ENERGY TO PRIVATE COMPANIES FOR PROFIT THESE COMPANIES CHARGE US BRITISH PEOPLE A FORTUNE FOR GAS AND ELECTRIC IT WAS THE ROTTEN TORY GOVERNMENT IN 2023 WHO TREBLED OUR ENERGY PRICES TOO AND NEVER PUT A CAP ON COSTS
Poor souls. One thing I notice though is they never mention the younger disabled who also suffer in the cold as well... those with inflammatory conditions who must at all costs stay warm. Hellish nothing has changed though. There's special people afar from me who I really worry about!! 😔
Hear, hear. The difference being warm makes to autoimmune and rheumatic conditions should never be overlooked. There was a trial for GPs to prescribe heating a few years ago and it made a huge difference. We're talking people being able to function. Utterly depressing any of us find ourselves in this position.
How incredibly depressing to find ourselves no further forward. Labour's legacy will be shrouded in shame. Shame on every single member of parliament. Shame on every devolved nation. Shame on all of them.
Remember when bedrooms had fireplaces? Yes, in the old days they had more sense; then in the 60s and 70s with 'modernisation' the fireplaces were ripped out! Resulting in freezing bedrooms.
All that single glazing and ice on the inside of the windows….. I remember as a kid being freezing through the winter! Not surprising so many elderly died
2024, just out of hospital, serious chest infection because my home is not quite warm enough. So I have cost the NHS much more than the cost of my WFA. Meanwhile, Starmer is lovely and warm, courtesy of the taxpayer. Something very wrong about the UK.
Chest “infection” is not caused by cold (the clue is in the name) and the WFA would cover your energy costs for probably one month at most. What are you going to do about the other two / three months of Winter, not to mention our chilly Autumnal / Spring days? If you are cold put the heating on. If you are registered as vulnerable with your energy company they cannot cut you off, so long as you are paying something (and you presumably can pay SOMETHING, since the WFA is such a pittance compared to the length of the season it covers? You’d have had to pay for energy with or without the WFA, since it has never come for free.)
@frugalitystartsathome4889 I have an underlying lung condition. Not being warm enough can make me become very ill very quickly. If you don't feel the cold, you can't possibly understand.
I remember working for Hammersmith and Fulham Council in the late 80s fitting insulation in homes, mainly of elderly people. This was a big problem then and its never been properly dealt with. I think the government just relies on old people dying. It sorts the problem for good and it saves them money. Pretty sick if you ask me.
Hypothermia is also a leading cause of death for the homeless, including people who are still relatively young, in their 30s and 40s. A couple of years ago, n France, 2 babies and a 6 year old little boy died from hypothermia while on the street with their mothers. Still, the French government managed to get homeless people off the streets for the Olympics. I have been living in the UK for 2 decades and many houses are so built that they get really cold and especially damp. Also sometimes the boiler doesn't work. One of the flats I rented, a recently built flat (2000s) with an energy rating of B of something had double glazing which was decorative (the rain got in when it rained too hard) and a boiler that was out of work. As a result I spent my day off work climbing on a step ladder to fight the mould. When I got up at 3:30am to go to work (6am start) the temperature was as low as 5 degrees Celsius. I would have been warmer in a tent. I should have gotten a 4 season sleeping bag with a thermal liner and a thermal mat, but the landlady kept insisting that the cold (including cold showers as there was no hot water) was invigorating and I was scared she would steal my camping gear while I was at work!. I have chatted with people from Scandinavia (including Finland), Russia and Ukraine, they all told me that their houses and flats back home were much warmer than British 'homes', even recently built ones. The exception is Georgian houses, these are well built, and stay warm and dry even in really bad weather.
Brrrrrr! My mum in law in her 80s keeps a really cold home even though she has got money to heat it. The point on here about old folks not sensing when they are cold was an eye opener to me. Have messaged her to see if she can use a thermometer to keep her temp at 70, as advised here.
Nothing changes. And the solution from the net zero zealots? Install a heat-pump! How can a pensioner living on next to naff all afford that? Make energy affordable, not a luxury!!!!
I'm 58 and have always hated the cold. This winter I have really felt it and been quite miserable. I hate the UK and the government (not just this one although the current administration has rachetted up the misery another level) and do not know how I'm going to survive into old age. Many times I've heard elderly people say 'don' t get old' and now I know why. We come into the world crying audibly but should remember that a great many also leave crying inwardly.
They are good whilst you are sat watching the telly or whatever, but I don't see how people can say they don't need the heating on as the minute you move you are freezing!
The Tories abolished the Warm Home Discount for struggling families and single people if their home was built before a certain date. Starmer abolished the WAF....Young people today will be denied these things when they are OAPS....I hate all Politician's in general. They never help the elderly nor prople struggling on Benefits whether disabled or actively looking for work. I hate them. I hate all Politician's.
Fortunately my elderly dad has the money to heat his house. He is also loosing his marbles which is good as he does not turn the heating down or turn off anymore. He used to do this a few years ago and we nearly lost him because he would rather die of cold than put the heating on.
Back then it was worrying about the cost of heating Heating 2024 now pensioners are still worried and now many people young and old having to use Food Banks ! Something very wrong with Governments who seem to ignore this , yet send foreign aid to countries whose leaders are just as wealthy as our Government tells you everything, the people at the bottom of the social rung , don’t matter it’s a Scandal , rich getting richer poorer getting pushed into Poverty
One way we can conserve heat now that we couldn't in the 80s, is the excess of modern fabrics that are available and can mean you can put more layers on, especially on the legs and feet and head. Older people also require company/knowledge that someone nearby is looking out for them and warm food and drinks! Look after eachother.
@MrDirkles pretty much every manmade fabric has been improved in that time, especially fleeces which are way warmer than anything around then. I don't feel a great need to prove myself as I was there then and am here now!
@goinblinddoggone I was there and I'm here too. The only thing I can think of different from them to now is a vast reduction in natural materials like cotton and wool and vast increase in man made polyester materials.
It’s unlikely that the government will increase help to our pensioners anytime soon so I would recommend investing if you can (or ask for as a gift if you have family/support system) an electric blanket - they cost pennies per hour often just 1p on low setting. Also I have an electric foot pad and an under blanket for my bed. Again these all are only pennies per hour and really help keep one warm. I can’t afford to heat my entire home and survive the winters this way. This is my life as a single FT working adult and I just hope it won’t stay like this when I retire 😕
@ no not the new ones. If you keep them on low plus they have timers and safety cut out features. Obviously if you have health issues already consult gp first
£189 for that old ladies electric bill does seem sky high for back then as ours in a 3 bedroom house where we use alot and i charge my car is only £70 more. though we do pay nearer wholesale cost for electric via octopus energy but its still not much cheaper than if we was on a normal rate
It's possible the £189 bill might have been for 3 months as i think bills were sent out quarterly in those days. Certainly not monthly. Still high though.
13:39 "..what the government did behind the scenes, is to withdraw that advice...." For 40+ years UK government can not manage a single problem. To maintain 70 degrees F as a national standard...and they keep attack you when you do not pay your tax.
Labour, one step forward, Tories, two steps backwards...and here we are, still the sick & poor man of Europe. Before anyone piles in, I despise Starmer for removing the winter fuel allowance.
Starmer got to power on a lie, and the most vulnerable people ie pensioners, are been targeted, by ruthless politicians. Is it because they were True Blue Tories voters before and punished them for that. The HEC in 1977 did a very grim and realistic film about Hypothermia, features an elderly actress, the voiceover artist was John Shrapnel.
41 years on, and we still neglect the elderly. Disgusting.
YES>>>YES>>>YES....NO further forward........how many more WILL die without the cold weather payments.........Lots!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!..........
The people that run our government should be ashamed they neglect the very people that put in there whole lives into the system to get robbed for there care ect when they get elderly but can’t do enough for foreigners our grandparents would turn in there graves
Its even worse now with Starmer and the Winter fuel payment.
It's unbelievable that this is still the case in 2025, and Labour has done nothing to help, it has in fact, done the opposite. The older we get, the more we are vulnerable to cold temperatures, that's a fact. Starmer knows this, yet he was ok to take the only bit of financial help from the elderly. We pay the most in the world for our energy. It is disgusting.
Exactly , the governments we’ve had since the 1990s are corrupt disgusting glow ball ist WEF UN subservient scumbags but alas it’s the public who are to blame they keep voting for them because they are pig thick ignorant brain dead half wits who aren’t capable of critical thinking . We have the government we deserve 👏🏻👊🏼🏴🇬🇧
This is 2024 and I am a pensioner. I don't like to feel cold. What I do in winter when at home is to mostly stay in one room and I use a thick blanket to wrap around my lower body up to my torso whilst sitting. This works well for me and I don't get cold feet so much anymore. I am still an active person and live a relatively normal life in and out of the house. I do have heating but usage is timed for morning and evening and off in the daytime. The blanket really helps and I noted the old lady at the start of this video was not using one and even burnt her skin by sitting to close to her heater. My message=blankets are good !! (don't put them too near the heater though!)
Bless you for sharing your story I just don’t understand why our government doesn’t care about our elderly you of all people should gain the most from our public assistance but no my auntie is having to sell her house just to pay for my uncles care
I would say if you have heating - use it during the day as well. What is the point of any of us paying for something we don’t use, or that has to be rationed? if you are a pensioner, you need the heating more than anyone else, so just use it. I am in my fifties and I have problems paying my bills, I pay what I can, but if you are paying and not using it, or it is not heating your home adequately, what is the point of paying for it? Use it - at least you won’t be cold, and pay whatever you can on the bills. The energy company must be heartless if they can’t understand that a pensioner needs heat, not just in the morning and evening.
@@rafiqadarr6217 Thank you for your reply. I don't pay for what I don't use, that is the point.
@@nevillerobert318But you're still paying a standing charge. You may as well just put the heating on. They cannot cut you off.
Should bring world in action back on tv
Well said
They won't because they can't tell the truth.
When World In Action was axed in 1998, it was the final piece in the jigsaw of crafting ITV to appeal to the largest low common denominator demographic possible. Investigative journalism? Nay, nay and thrice nay for the "new" sponsored junk food like ITV plc, which is run by people who know zip all about what constitutes "quality broadcasting". What chance has World In Action got in that television climate?
@@M.J.Stevens-x5m no chance at all.
World in action was a tremendous investigative journalism program but sadly there is no way it would be permitted to make a
comeback in this woke PC sh!thouse of a Nation we are forced to live in of today! 🤬✋️🇬🇧👊🏴
And our labour government decided to withdrew the only hope they had 😢
I voted liberal. Labour s tory 2.0
Dear old Thatcher was PM at this time. She was about to make things a whole lot worse in 1984.
From the view I now have after living through as broad a spectrum of government as we have in the UK, it doesn't appear that any faction holds the masses as a major matter of concern in their plans.
They're all working on behalf of the establishment, or they're smeared by the press and the public loses trust so they are lost to us.
Thank you so much for these uploads- I'm binge watching loads. These are so important, social history I find fascinating. Such interesting people who have such difficult lives, it's heartbreaking.
Very good point I agree and it's still happening now 😢
Really depressing.
I'm in my early 50s and I dread getting old. I think I'm justified after watching this.
I don't want to get old. I've got kidney cancer and they said I could have Keyhole surgery.y family said get it, you've got another 20 years. No thanks. Not for this world..
Gives me even less desire to recover from anorexia ! At age 56 my dietician said , ' if u recover we could squeeze anotha 30 years out of u ' . She was 22 n didn't realise that this isn't a positive statement ! I don't want that , anyway ! This is so sad , u work hard n if u live to b older . ? ! X 😢
Im 67 , being a bit old now & to be fair it isnt all bad , well not yet anyway
Me too 😢
@Sewingdiva247 same here
... But put immigrants out in the cold from their warm hotels and all hell would be let loose!
This Treaterous government makes me sick.
Makes me mad we don't take care of our elderly
Why do people like you always bring immigrants into every English social problem?
Absolutely scandalous
There are hundreds of those hotels, many housing around a couple of hundred of these men & EVERY one of those rooms inside has the heating blazing away 24 hrs a day 7 day's a week to the extent many of the bedroom windows are open! I mean who opens windows like that during the months of January & February here in Britain?
The amount of money these people are costing the taxpayer is scandalous & our pensioners, our grandparents have to suffer in the cold while young men whom we know absolutely nothing about are put up in luxury hotels with good food, warm rooms, hot water, new clothes, new phone's with unlimited credit & as if all that isn't enough they're also given bank accounts & regular 'pocket money!!'
I will never comprehend the Governments reasoning for accepting these men in spite of many calls of complaints pertaining to numbers of these men hanging round outside schools even primary schools & taking pictures of female pupils, they won't see this as wrong due to the teachings of their faith! Just another example of how this can never work & how we should stay within our own & keep to our side of the fence for oil & water do not mix!
My favourite channel , fantastic uploads, thank you keep them
Coming ! X
Make Herr Starmer watch this on Loop, he is the reason for many winter deaths this year of the elderly
Yes I agree with you ,he's got dead pensioners on his head this winter
He doesn't give a damn
@@stephenholmes1036 Like all other politicians.
The most disgusting thing is it’s now 2025 and guess what we are still talking about this something is seriously wrong!
Not really. Your reading it backwards. At which point in history, were elderly people not at risk of death by the cold. We're simply not the angelic perfect modern society people might think we should be. Regardless of progress in certain areas, this will always and has always existed. Always.
@@TobyCostaDunkin yes l agree sadly to say it’s an always is nothing but defeatism
Pretty clear now why Starmer and co removed the winter fuel allowance! Pure evil.
BLAME MARGARET THATCHER YOU MEAN WHO IS A CONSERVATIVE PRIME MINISTER FOR PRIVITISING GAS AND ELECTRIC IN THE 1980s SHE SOLD OUR ENERGY TO PRIVATE COMPANIES FOR PROFIT THESE COMPANIES CHARGE US BRITISH PEOPLE A FORTUNE FOR GAS AND ELECTRIC
IT WAS THE ROTTEN TORY GOVERNMENT IN 2023 WHO TREBLED OUR ENERGY PRICES TOO AND NEVER PUT A CAP ON COSTS
We treat are old and poor disgracefully
Nearly 2025 and the elderly are forced to choose between heating and eating. Thanks to our uncaring governments.
Poor souls. One thing I notice though is they never mention the younger disabled who also suffer in the cold as well... those with inflammatory conditions who must at all costs stay warm. Hellish nothing has changed though. There's special people afar from me who I really worry about!! 😔
@@EYE-is-a-shining-STAR they always forget the young disabled adult it’s as if you turn 18 and become invisible
Hear, hear. The difference being warm makes to autoimmune and rheumatic conditions should never be overlooked. There was a trial for GPs to prescribe heating a few years ago and it made a huge difference. We're talking people being able to function. Utterly depressing any of us find ourselves in this position.
How incredibly depressing to find ourselves no further forward. Labour's legacy will be shrouded in shame. Shame on every single member of parliament. Shame on every devolved nation. Shame on all of them.
Remember when bedrooms had fireplaces? Yes, in the old days they had more sense; then in the 60s and 70s with 'modernisation' the fireplaces were ripped out! Resulting in freezing bedrooms.
All that single glazing and ice on the inside of the windows….. I remember as a kid being freezing through the winter! Not surprising so many elderly died
Its not how old you are that matters, its how healthy you are, as long as you are physically and mentally in good health then that's important..😊
2024, just out of hospital, serious chest infection because my home is not quite warm enough. So I have cost the NHS much more than the cost of my WFA. Meanwhile, Starmer is lovely and warm, courtesy of the taxpayer. Something very wrong about the UK.
Chest “infection” is not caused by cold (the clue is in the name) and the WFA would cover your energy costs for probably one month at most. What are you going to do about the other two / three months of Winter, not to mention our chilly Autumnal / Spring days? If you are cold put the heating on. If you are registered as vulnerable with your energy company they cannot cut you off, so long as you are paying something (and you presumably can pay SOMETHING, since the WFA is such a pittance compared to the length of the season it covers? You’d have had to pay for energy with or without the WFA, since it has never come for free.)
@frugalitystartsathome4889 I have an underlying lung condition. Not being warm enough can make me become very ill very quickly. If you don't feel the cold, you can't possibly understand.
I remember working for Hammersmith and Fulham Council in the late 80s fitting insulation in homes, mainly of elderly people. This was a big problem then and its never been properly dealt with.
I think the government just relies on old people dying. It sorts the problem for good and it saves them money.
Pretty sick if you ask me.
Thank you for this.....shared...get the elderly ( and yourselves) wool socks, game changer
Hmmmm is this 2024, can't believe still the same problems
When this was broadcast, Keir Starmer was 21 years old.
Still doesn't have any brain cells 😂
In 83 toolmakers were close to the top in the,by then, declining engineering sector
Absolutely shocking how consecutive governments treat our elderly with such contempt
It is now government policy to revive this situation. A Labour government too. They make me sick.
World in Action and Panorama used to be powerful and essential TV viewing.
Hypothermia is also a leading cause of death for the homeless, including people who are still relatively young, in their 30s and 40s. A couple of years ago, n France, 2 babies and a 6 year old little boy died from hypothermia while on the street with their mothers. Still, the French government managed to get homeless people off the streets for the Olympics.
I have been living in the UK for 2 decades and many houses are so built that they get really cold and especially damp. Also sometimes the boiler doesn't work. One of the flats I rented, a recently built flat (2000s) with an energy rating of B of something had double glazing which was decorative (the rain got in when it rained too hard) and a boiler that was out of work. As a result I spent my day off work climbing on a step ladder to fight the mould. When I got up at 3:30am to go to work (6am start) the temperature was as low as 5 degrees Celsius. I would have been warmer in a tent. I should have gotten a 4 season sleeping bag with a thermal liner and a thermal mat, but the landlady kept insisting that the cold (including cold showers as there was no hot water) was invigorating and I was scared she would steal my camping gear while I was at work!. I have chatted with people from Scandinavia (including Finland), Russia and Ukraine, they all told me that their houses and flats back home were much warmer than British 'homes', even recently built ones. The exception is Georgian houses, these are well built, and stay warm and dry even in really bad weather.
Dont live in the UK but its disgusting that things are the same today in such a rich country. Govt should pay 75-80% of pensioners utility bills.
Brrrrrr! My mum in law in her 80s keeps a really cold home even though she has got money to heat it. The point on here about old folks not sensing when they are cold was an eye opener to me. Have messaged her to see if she can use a thermometer to keep her temp at 70, as advised here.
Did your mother in law agree?
@susantracey1539 lol no!! She replied to say her house is already at 21° c. I beg to differ
Gas, electric, and water fat cat bosses deliberately raising bills for all and then raking in all the profits.
Not just the elderly, I am disabled with cerebral palsy, I get cold too. Anastasia 👨🏻🦼
Great Britain my arse
Starmer needs to see this
Nothing changes. And the solution from the net zero zealots? Install a heat-pump! How can a pensioner living on next to naff all afford that? Make energy affordable, not a luxury!!!!
I'm 58 and have always hated the cold. This winter I have really felt it and been quite miserable. I hate the UK and the government (not just this one although the current administration has rachetted up the misery another level) and do not know how I'm going to survive into old age. Many times I've heard elderly people say 'don' t get old' and now I know why. We come into the world crying audibly but should remember that a great many also leave crying inwardly.
I have a heated throw / blanket. About the cost of a lightbulb. I don’t have to turn the heating on anymore.
Thats not a realistic solution for these elderly people. Glad you're warm though.
I’d be concerned about how no heating would affect my house eg burst pipes, dampness etc.
Why not?
They are good whilst you are sat watching the telly or whatever, but I don't see how people can say they don't need the heating on as the minute you move you are freezing!
@@theTRStvchannel exactly. It's not a realistic solution for the elderly.
The Tories abolished the Warm Home Discount for struggling families and single people if their home was built before a certain date. Starmer abolished the WAF....Young people today will be denied these things when they are OAPS....I hate all Politician's in general. They never help the elderly nor prople struggling on Benefits whether disabled or actively looking for work. I hate them. I hate all Politician's.
And this isn’t 1883…. It’s 1983. Living in the Dark Ages.
Fortunately my elderly dad has the money to heat his house. He is also loosing his marbles which is good as he does not turn the heating down or turn off anymore. He used to do this a few years ago and we nearly lost him because he would rather die of cold than put the heating on.
My God, what a smug, obnoxious specimen Lynda Chalker was.
Yes she was. But then, she was a Thatcherite so unsurprising really.
And the problem is ongoing. It’s not going to get any better.
Whats changed
Nothing changes as far as the poor are concerned!
Back then it was worrying about the cost of heating Heating
2024 now pensioners are still worried and now many people young and old having to use Food Banks ! Something very wrong with Governments who seem to ignore this , yet send foreign aid to countries whose leaders are just as wealthy as our Government tells you everything, the people at the bottom of the social rung , don’t matter it’s a Scandal , rich getting richer poorer getting pushed into Poverty
One way we can conserve heat now that we couldn't in the 80s, is the excess of modern fabrics that are available and can mean you can put more layers on, especially on the legs and feet and head. Older people also require company/knowledge that someone nearby is looking out for them and warm food and drinks! Look after eachother.
What modern fabrics are available now that weren't when this was made?
@MrDirkles pretty much every manmade fabric has been improved in that time, especially fleeces which are way warmer than anything around then.
I don't feel a great need to prove myself as I was there then and am here now!
@goinblinddoggone I was there and I'm here too. The only thing I can think of different from them to now is a vast reduction in natural materials like cotton and wool and vast increase in man made polyester materials.
What a load of codswallop!!! Do you not think that people had thermals in the 1980s?
@@simonhodgetts6530 +1 for codswallop
Well I dread how many are dieing to day now there heating allowance has been cut, absolutely disgusting
It’s unlikely that the government will increase help to our pensioners anytime soon so I would recommend investing if you can (or ask for as a gift if you have family/support system) an electric blanket - they cost pennies per hour often just 1p on low setting. Also I have an electric foot pad and an under blanket for my bed. Again these all are only pennies per hour and really help keep one warm. I can’t afford to heat my entire home and survive the winters this way. This is my life as a single FT working adult and I just hope it won’t stay like this when I retire 😕
That can cause skin issues
@ no not the new ones. If you keep them on low plus they have timers and safety cut out features. Obviously if you have health issues already consult gp first
I hope ‘Rachel from Accounts’ watched this!
im scared about the cold when i get elderlt im only 30 and already feel it badly and just stay in one room with my oodie on under mt blanket
£189 for that old ladies electric bill does seem sky high for back then as ours in a 3 bedroom house where we use alot and i charge my car is only £70 more. though we do pay nearer wholesale cost for electric via octopus energy but its still not much cheaper than if we was on a normal rate
It's possible the £189 bill might have been for 3 months as i think bills were sent out quarterly in those days. Certainly not monthly. Still high though.
Definitely quarterly bills back then ….
I’m sitting with a duvet over me
13:39 "..what the government did behind the scenes, is to withdraw that advice...."
For 40+ years UK government can not manage a single problem. To maintain 70 degrees F as a national standard...and they keep attack you when you do not pay your tax.
It was not a political priority in other words there was no social media or 24 hour news reporting theses issues and people didnt know or care
2025 and its still the same
WORLD IN ACTION
"Too Cold to Live"
Series 19;Episode 11
January 16,1983
So dim to use reflective blankets on someone who is very cold - it will do nothing. They need a source of heat. 🙄
Labour, one step forward, Tories, two steps backwards...and here we are, still the sick & poor man of Europe. Before anyone piles in, I despise Starmer for removing the winter fuel allowance.
£189 Bill would amount to £630 in todays money 😮
Only Boris care about old people. God bless im.
Is that the same Boris that doesn't even give a fuck about his own children? Lol.
We’re a barbaric species for sure
Starmer got to power on a lie, and the most vulnerable people ie pensioners, are been targeted, by ruthless politicians. Is it because they were True Blue Tories voters before and punished them for that. The HEC in 1977 did a very grim and realistic film about Hypothermia, features an elderly actress, the voiceover artist was John Shrapnel.
Michael Green is a terrible interviewee. States the obvious.
I love cold
Didn't anyone think mrs pearson died of old age at 89?