Letter From A Pensioner

[maggiebee]

This was posted by Jane Kelsall on Facebook. Think it might echo what a lot of people think, not just pensioners.

Dear David Cameron, Thank you for the advice on keeping down my heating bills; You said to wear a jumper to keep out the winter chills. I’m 75 years old, I’ve jumpers older than you; But none of them do the job when it’s minus bloody two! I’m actually ten years older than our beloved welfare state; I’ll outlive the thing if times keep on as they have of late We used to have this quaint idea of solidarity; ‘All for one and one for all’ got replaced by ‘me,me,me’ They sold off the utilities; thus privatising heat; So now us old folks have to choose to warm our rooms or eat They sold off all the factories; they sold off all the mills; Now kids are lucky to find work scanning tin cans at tills They sold off all our railways, and they gave away our trains; It made some folks a lot of cash, but we just felt the pains. They sold off schools and hospitals, now police stations too; Things once owned by all of us, now owned by the likes of you. For decades now your lot have sold what wasn’t yours to sell; Your gang of ham faced charlatans can go to bloody hell! You tell us now we’re old and cold to ‘wrap up warm’. As ‘eck!; I’ll take my winter scarf and wrap it round your soddin’ neck! You wouldn’t know a tough choice if it bit you in the ar*e; To be lectured by you on ‘making do’ is beyond a soddin’ farce ‘Wear extra clothes’ to save some cash? I’d love to, but alack; You rotten thieving buggers stole the shirt right off my back.

[viv38]

Brilliant !!

[marval]

Very good and how true.

[ferlew]

That's is fantastic, but scarily true.

[mazzywoo]

Wow-just about sums it up hey? Super ode and oh so true!!

[lady-janine]

anybody else agree that we should all copy this out and send it to cameron and our local mp. without a stamp of course. after all we are all in this together and thus they can pay the stamp.

[factor-fiction]

Most of it is nonsense, but I do think it may have been better never to have sold it off or if Labour had made some attempt to take it back under state control. It may not have helped prices though, except that we could have put up other taxes to hide the cost of supporting the nationalised energy companies