{"id":69853,"date":"2025-01-04T10:28:48","date_gmt":"2025-01-04T10:28:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=69853"},"modified":"2025-01-04T10:28:48","modified_gmt":"2025-01-04T10:28:48","slug":"wes-streeting-accused-of-being-crass-and-cruel-after-urging-old-people-to-turn-on-their-heating-amid-sub-zero-temperatures-this-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/01\/04\/wes-streeting-accused-of-being-crass-and-cruel-after-urging-old-people-to-turn-on-their-heating-amid-sub-zero-temperatures-this-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Wes Streeting accused of being &#8216;crass&#8217; and &#8216;cruel&#8217; after urging old people to turn on their heating amid sub-zero temperatures this weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2025\/01\/03\/22\/93726443-0-image-a-40_1735945059658.jpg\" alt=\"Health Secretary Wes Streeting (pictured) insisted that older people were still protected from the cold by Labour, amid forecasts for sub-zero temperatures\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span data-track-module=\"internal-body-link\"><a id=\"mol-681131a0-ca26-11ef-8d1b-9da92c3a4363\" class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/wes-streeting\/index.html\" target=\"_self\">Wes Streeting<\/a><\/span> was accused of being &#8216;crass&#8217; and &#8216;cruel&#8217; after telling people to turn on their heating this weekend \u2013 despite slashing the Winter Fuel Payment for millions.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-14248765\/Wes-Streeting-crass-cruel-old-people-turn-heating.html\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Wes Streeting was accused of being &#8216;crass&#8217; and &#8216;cruel&#8217; after telling people to turn on their heating this weekend \u2013 despite slashing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":66896,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-69853","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Wes.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69853"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69854,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69853\/revisions\/69854"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}