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Pensioner's protest
A pensioner has made her anger at the Labour
Government's 75p-a-week increase in the state pension known by returning
the increase to the Chancellor - whose exchequer promptly cashed
the cheque.
Nora Knight, 78, of Devon, wrote in her
letter to the Treasury that the pension increase was "outrageous
and insulting".
She enclosed a cheque for 75p, highlighting
her protest and was disgusted to find that the Treasury had cashed
the cheque.
Mrs Knight, who lives with her husband
Denis, a former English teacher, saw cheque number 101274 on her
July statement had been sent to Gordon Brown at 11 Downing Street
and had been cashed on July 24.
She told a national newspaper: "I couldn't
believe my eyes. I went back to my cheque book to check it was the
same amount, and it was. I don't believe for a moment he cashed
it in himself, but somebody in the office did."
Retired Mrs Knight added: "I'm just a furious
pensioner. Here we are, having reached this age, having been through
the war and luckily survived it. It's all very well having Battle
of Britain programmes and saying we're wonderful, but what about
those of us who are left?
"I'm just fed up with Labour detaching
us all. I feel that we've just been shoved overboard. They will
find at the next election that they will have a really nasty shock."
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