Pensioners Rights!

Why is it that the UK government make our pensioners suffer each year with such a small annual allowance for heating in the cold weather.
Look at the past few weeks, it is wet and damp and cold for our pensioners.
What I don't understand is that they have paid there taxes and Social Security all these years and when they need it most to warm their homes, the government won't give them enough.
Patients are leaving the warmth of hospitals with various ailments which include Cancer, Heart, Arthritus problems to name a few and then they have to go back to their humble abodes and on many occassions have to wrap up with blankets, because they can't afford the heating they need. In some cases they are alone and miserable for days on end, so what life is this that we in the Western World want to give our pensioners?

Here's a novel idea! Why not provide free heaters and vastly discounted gas and electricity rates for the pensioners during October to March!
This would mean an outcry from the greedy FOREIGN energy companies that take huge profits out of the UK.
The UK Government are spineless smurking pratts and don't care about our Grandparents etc who helped to populate this country.