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!ukpolitics@lemm.ee appears to have vanished! We can still see cached content from this link, but goodbye I guess! :'(
If you're upset over this because you're genuinely going to struggle, then you should probably see what benefits you're entitled to. Chances are there's something you can claim.
Hoever, I suspect most of the people who are upset are Daily Mail reading, £600,000 house living types, on a massive final salary pension, who are annoyed that this means they might have to sit in economy class when they fly to their fifth holiday of the year. And those people, can get bent.
Or just a retired couple/person still living in their 4 bedroom family house spending loads just to heat it.
I get people don’t want to leave a house they been in for 20-40+ years but ultimately we should be encouraging downsizing to help free up a little bit of family housing.
I can't begrudge people wanting to stay in a house they've lived in for years, raised a family in and probably lost a partner in. Wouldn't be easy to say goodbye to that.
It's easy enough to turn radiators off and shut doors to rooms you don't use.