MP picks and chooses arguments (From Oxford Mail)

The government are doing their best to send people to an early grave by freezing therir pensions. Many pensioners living abroad do not receive any increase from the day that they depart while the majority do get the annual uprating. It then becomes a question of cutting back on heating (Canada gets very cold ) -10C today but can get much colder, cutting back on food and / before making commentsor cutting out some necessary prescriptions. Something has to give and of course there is the mental anguish that this treatment causes. So the MP's and the government should look at themselves before commenting. I would hope that this MP has signed EDM 1895 which would correct this bad government policy. This is done
under regulation 3 of the Social Security BenefitsUp-rating Regulations 2011 where more than half a million pensioners have their pension frozen. Some uprating ! No.

Having just checked the signatories on the EDM 1895 I see that Tony Baldry MP has not signed yet.
So come on Tony, show that you mean what you say.

Oh Tony Baldry, you might nudge David Cameron on this issue as well as he seems to be sleeping.

Spare me from another "christian" member of Parliament. But then MP's and religious doctrines go hand in hand with hypocritical dogma. To do nothing to end the discrimination of senior citizens whose only "crime" is to retire to a "wrong" country is disgraceful. To have their rightful uprating frozen in some countries and not others is in direct conflict of all that a once great nation stood for and indeed fought for in two world wars. That is the right to expect freedom of choice and to be treated fairly. State pensioners have all paid into the same National Insurance fund so all should be treated the same. To single out just 4% for this denial of rights is a stain on the character of all politicians who ignore the plight of these pensioners as they slide into poverty, and a slap in the face for those who served in the forces and those who gave up their lives for freedom from repression. David Cameron, Steve Webb and Iain Duncan Smith et al should all hang their heads in shame.

Well said Janey