17/03/2005 00:00
by RAY FLEMING
AFTER the prospect of a member of the House of Lords having special responsibility for Britons living overseas, offered by the Chairman of the Conservatives Abroad during his visit to Majorca this week, I was fully expecting Gordon Brown to make a counter offer to extend the winter fuel allowance to overseas pensioners in his Budget speech yesterday. We could certainly have used it in the winter we've just had. But although the Chancellor's statement was widely described as a budget for OAPs there was nothing that I could see in it for those of us who won't qualify for a tax refund on our council house, or be able to ride the buses free of charge, or benefit from the abolition of charges while we're kept in a NHS hospital.
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