Labour slated by Highland Tory over winter fuel payment decision
A Highland Tory MSP has accused Labour of making decisions with ‘little understanding’ of the impacts they will have.
The accusation came after yesterday’s announcement that winter fuel payments were to be scrapped.
“Labour’s cut to Winter Fuel Payments will disproportionately hit pensioners across the Highlands and Islands, and particularly in those communities where heating bills and cases of fuel poverty are already higher than in the rest of Scotland,” he claimed.
“Like the SNP’s ban on wood burning stoves, Labour ministers are making decisions with little understanding or consideration of how those decisions might impact in communities like ours, or of the potentially devastating unintended consequences of those decisions.
“This short-sighted cut to these vital heating payments will undoubtedly leave some of our more vulnerable residents colder this winter”.