‘These will lessen the side effects from the
pills you’re taking to reduce the side effects
from those pills I prescribed to ease the
side effects of...’
This week, 17.5 million people on various benefits including the state pension and disability living allowance will receive a £10 Christmas bonus. It’s about time though, that Keir Starmer played Scrooge and finally abolished the bonus altogether. For, unlike their Dickensian forebears, poor pensioners this Christmas won’t be going without food or warmth. In fact,