HAVING read David Chaytor's "Conference Diary" (Bury Times, October 10) I must take issue with him on the statement that he was "promoting the pension credit".
Ten years ago, the then Shadow Chancellor Gordon Brown raised the roof at the Labour Party Conference when he declared that a future Labour Government would end means-testing of Britain's elderly.
This month, under Gordon Brown's economic guidance, the Labour Government will, for the first time in post-war history, extend means-testing to more than five million pensioners through the introduction of the Pension Credit.
Does Mr Chaytor agree that his support for the Pension Credit means ipso facto that he is in support of means-testing the elderly?
P. KAISERMAN
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