Save Winter Fuel Payments
The new Labour Government is failing older people across the country, with their cuts to the Winter Fuel Payments.
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A Lib Dem Council would empower residents to have a real say over issues that matter. In the meantime we speak up for people who all too often feel let down. Gateshead charges the highest levels of Council Tax for band D properties of any metropolitan borough in the country but residents feel that it is out of touch and unresponsive. That has to change!
Councillor Ron Beadle
The new Labour Government is failing older people across the country, with their cuts to the Winter Fuel Payments.
Students agree; if we do not stand up for what we believe in, a democracy doesn't progress!
Council motion on winter fuel allowance
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