Letter: Pensioners are angry with the government

So Labour have had a drubbing at the polls. I don't think anyone thought it a surprise, not even to Keir Starmer.

I notice the words "protest vote" haven't been bandied about so much this time because of the vast difference in the results.

"Reform seems to have taken the lead in the polls, but unfortunately they remain an untested force."

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Starmer was at Downing street with Gordon Brown and Harriet Harman obviously wheeling out Labour "big guns" to prop him up but that might have backfired as, when in power, Brown wasn't exactly a popular P.M.

I think I can pinpoint why a percentage of the votes for Labour went awry this time, because of the way they have been treating pensioners.

A large number are now paying tax on their pensions, including me, and year on year it's not getting any better, at this rate I will soon have to find myself a job as apparently slogging my guts out for fifty years wasn't enough.

Reform seems to have taken the lead in the polls, but unfortunately they remain an untested force.

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