Cold kills 180 British pensioners a day during winter

I am 70 and I refuse to be cold. If I cannot pay my heating bill they can send me to prison, I believe criminals are warm and well fed. I worked 15-68 and payed taxes, this way I'll get some of it back!!

This is an Outrage and Hypocrocy and deceit of the Highest level.....Your promises Cameron and co mean absolutely nothing to you.....You will have blood on your hands , like so many Politicians before you.....you have no shame , no morals , no nothing....absolute disgraceful ....and its the people of this country that suffers day by day ....and its disgusting !!!

This is criminal.....we have upped the aid budget, so despots can have new limos, and private jets, whilst the poor and elderly cannot heat their homes, Cameron wants to paint the Tories with a 'nice image' then start by reducing foreign aid, and looking after the pensioners at home.....Shame!

I wrote to George Osbourne asking him how he could justify a huge increase in foreign aid when people in this country were dying of the cold each year, foreign aid is now £12billion plus per annum.
He replied that the UK had a moral duty to help poorer countries etc etc.
I replied "what about the legal duty to provide for the needy in the UK?". Of course he did not reply to that question.
Many more will die this winter because of the cold and the government (18 millionaires in the Cabinet) will wring their hands whilst sitting in their warm homes and precisely bugger all will be done !!!!!!!!

Rather than pay the winter fuel allowance wouldn't it be more sensible to give pensioners FREE gas and electric between say November and February. At least that way there is no alternative way of spending the allowance and the fear of not being able to pay the bill would no longer exist

I've stopped burning my gas except when I need to bathe. I just wrap up really well. My flat isn't too far away from living outside. May as well get used to it because the way things are going most of us will likely be facing the following dilema soon. Food or gas? It's a no brainer. I'm sick of lining the pockets of these arrogant selfish p'ricks. The technology to give us free energy exists but there is no money in that game so it's being held back and left under developed.

We need to put our Elderly in Prisons, 3 meals a day, free phone calls, TV in every room, free electricity, options for further education, and looked on very 30 mins, the prisoners then can be put in Nursing Homes to rot

Everyday it seems we are getting closer to "1984". You can imagine there already being plans in the Bunker outlining plans to wheel the not wanted in for an injection.

Maybe they should turn the heating off in the House of Commons for a few weeks so they would know what is like to be cold.

Iam a oap. start work at 15. paid my stamps and was told I be look after in old aged. They reckon you need 400 pounds a week to live on. Iget 134pounds, by the time I paid rent electric phone ect Igot 25 pounds a week left for food, clothes going out ect . Iwould love to treat my self to fish and chips. but cant afford it. Now they cut our heating money down 250 down 200 pounds. no one give atoss about oaps.

Put all pensioners in prison and all prisoners in old folks homes. The cold food and lousy treatment plus poverty will kill the cons....the pensioners will have 3 square meals a day, all TV and fun they want, legal aid at any time and people to keep an eye on them all day.

And still our government persists in giving £Billions away to other countries.... We should be taking care of our own - or doesn't our welfare count?

It seems that all the hard work, all the national insurance paid and all the taxes thats been paid over the 45 years of been in employment not to mention the money you have spent keeping businesses alive. This is all it comes down to, your old and your worthless. What really is the point of giving money to the government if all they allow is for the older generation to just wither and die. This is consumerism taking precidence over human life because we have to pay our way in this world to live.

I have radical idea we are bailing out Greece Spain and Portagul and Thomas Cook has no passengers. The elderly should be flown to warn clims and given accom in all the unused hotels and given a good time!

Great your forced to work until your older and then all there is to look forward to is being frozen to death. This goverment should be ashamed that the weak and vulnerable are being made to pay for its own incompetence and dogma whilst the wealthy stay relatively untouched

I pray David Cameron and his family one day suffer for inflicting this poverty in the UK.

The article on Pensioners dying in Winter does not say that the Government have cut this years Winter Fuel Allowance by £25,adding to the misery of many.It is ok for them with there millions and warm homes,who cares about a few dead pensioners some of whom fought for this Country and not forgetting those who paid the ultimate sacrifice for a better Britain.SHAME ON THIS GOVERNMENT!!!!!!!!!

no wonder they die, they are too frightened to put the heating on because the companys out there are too busy ripping people off by charging over the top for their energy prices

The Elderly fought the war for us, the least we can do is make sure they are warm in the winter and not be afraid to put the heating on, on account that they can't pay the bill. its OUTRAGIOUS

fuel as become "in a richmans world