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and causing the deaths of >80 year olds, thus reducing the costs of dependency on the health system? #consipracy :)

However this age group is also predominantly conservative voting so they would not want to off their core support base.

On the other hand the next election is nearly five years away, by then most of them will have fallen off their perch anyway.

This in a nutshell. The tory party hate spongers.