The Bus Pass and the TV Licence

Subject: The bus pass and the Tv licence 

There's never a day goes by without some new political wheeze being discussed by our political masters.
Today it's the rethink on the schemes in place to help bridge the gap between pension and poverty. Part of that bridging process has been to pay or at least, not charge for the BBC licence, to issue pensioners a free bus pass so they have some mobility, to assist in a provision which helps cover the cost of heating the pensioners home if the temperature drops below a certain point over a number of consecutive days and finally, to remove the interconnectivle lock on the annual increase of the amount paid to a pensioner, a lock which takes into account the rise in the cost of living, irrespective of how it's calculated.
Pensioners come in many shapes and sizes. I know very wealthy pensioners who shamefully claim every benefit they can get their hands on, irrespective of need and willing tell me that the amounts saved paid for a holiday. There are others who each week struggle to make ends meet.
No less an auspicious body than the House of Lords has today published a report on the need to review these pension perks (life savers for some) in consideration for the young who are finding it difficult to get into the housing market or find a job which gives them a decent living or a future.
There is no mention in the report of the unwillingness to build and finance 'affordable housing', no willingness to address the GIG economy, (on the go workers with no fixed contracts for work and exploited for their vulnerability). There is no mention of the financial cuts to education and the perilous state, uneducated youngsters are in when they leave school and try to find a work. 
As they try to balance the national books how easy not to mention the billions of tax not paid by those giants Amazon, Google, and Facebook. It's too difficult to say to these companies that the tax you pay shall be the equivalent to the business you turn over at the point of sale. The sales and the online contacts which are the exposure to advertising, each of those clicks on their search engine for which Google and Facebook derive their income stream. All this is too difficult too complicated, rather let's chase the pensioner and hide the political protagonist in this bastion of good taste the House of Lords. 
Setting old against young is a dirty game. Making people believe that their lack of jobs and housing prospects is somehow tied up with pension benefits is as low as the leaders of a society can go but I'm not holding my breath, tomorrow they might think of something else.