THE so-called WASPI women have been outrageously betrayed. Not by the refusal to compensate them, but by the false hope given them by Labour’s brazen hypocrites.
This ruling — more even than stripping OAPs’ winter fuel handouts or tax rises which WILL hit working people — exposes the cynical bandwagon-jumping of the Government in opposition.
The WASPI case was, regrettably, a non-starter.
The vast majority of women knew the pension age was increasing and had 15 years’ notice.
Taxpayers cannot afford billions to pay those who say they remained in the dark all that time.
But common sense never got a look-in once Labour spotted a chance to vilify the wicked, mean Tories and profit politically.
So, with zero thought, Keir Starmer supported “fair and fast compensation”. Rachel Reeves pledged a “fair solution for all women affected”.
In one especially moronic rant Angela Rayner, now Deputy PM, said: “The Conservatives stole this money from these women. Millions have been plunged into poverty. We will right that injustice. Justice is a price worth paying.”
Turns out it wasn’t. The Chancellor’s “fair solution” is: “Nothing”.
That may be the right call, in the end.
But Labour will struggle to live down a broken promise of this magnitude.
HOW did the Prime Minister dare tell MPs yesterday he had “stabilised the economy”? It is straightforwardly false.
The economy WAS stable when the Tories left office, growth topping the G7.
Now it is shrinking. Inflation and unemployment are rising.
Hiring has ceased, business confidence is gone, factory output is nose-diving and major retailers are closing branches . . . with Shoe Zone blaming the Budget directly. That’s before its National Insurance and Minimum Wage hikes even take effect.
Only the public sector and militant unions are thriving. Take Aslef, who extracted from Labour a no-strings rise so jaw-lollingly generous its members are rich enough now to abandon overtime, causing mass train cancellations.
If Liz Truss “crashed the economy” — to use Labour’s tired catchphrase — what have THEY done to it?
WHY is No10 still embarrassingly desperate to salvage its Chagos Islands disaster? It should bin the “deal” entirely.
Voters will never understand why Labour wanted to pay Mauritius to take strategically key British territory from us. Or the naivety of thinking our Diego Garcia airbase would be safe from China’s spies or other enemy interference.
The new Mauritius PM is now demanding yet more from us. Downing Street is begging Donald Trump not to kibosh a deal plainly against US interests.
Stop flailing. Cut your losses. Walk away.
