I AM APPALLED at the Tories plans to remove the triple lock on pensions and to remove the winter heating allowance. I get £250 heating allowance which is not enough to heat the house all through the winter anyway. Have these Tories got any idea of what it’s like to live on a pension of approximately £150 per week? 

In my case I have a small private pension on which I pay £50 to £60 income tax every month, by no means rich, but better off than a lot of single pensioners. I worked hard for many years and scrimped and saved to buy my own home. I worked all my life, never claimed dole and was rarely sick. I paid national insurance for 50 years. Was that for them to line the pockets of the rich?

I’ve only got one thing to say and that the person who posted vote blue this summer and turn blue in the winter on the internet was right. I hope I don’t get anything serious that involves going in to care as they now want to steal my home as well. Thank goodness I haven’t got any children, my poor niece will get nothing. 

Also what happens to these children still living at home in their 30s and 40s because they can’t afford to buy a home. They end up slung out onto the streets thus adding to the homeless problems already caused by them.

Ann Poyser
Stockton Road
Newport