The cash is there... but not for OAPs?

THE POLITICAL mantra is well known: to govern is to choose. So it doesn't seem unfair to ask just who on earth is making the choices right now. The government's announcement that only some pensioners are to get a winter fuel allowance, but without providing any specifics while on the same day announcing they'd found £1billion to provide more free school meals for half a million children - was a shocking piece of timing.

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Don't get me wrong. Of course meals should be provided to every child who might need them, but remember you can only spend a pound once.

And to continue to play Scrooge with people who, in some instances, will have paid into the system for up to five or even

OF COURSE Turkish-Armenian Hamit Coskun shouldn't have made highly offensive and derogatory remarks about Islam and Muslims and nor should he have set a copy of the Koran alight. However, doesn't the assertion by his supporters that had be been burning a copy of The Bible outside Westminster Abbey nothing would have been done ring chillingly true?

six decades is plain wrong.

While there will be countless deserving cases, let's face facts here.

Many of these unfortunate children will have parents or a parent who could review where their cash is going or even go out and get extra work, neither of which is likely to be a valid option for most pensioners, many of whom relied on that £300 winter fuel lifeline.