Many pensioners have enjoyed benefits young people can only dream of

‘Many pensioners live in dire poverty, but many others live in relative luxury at the expense of those born later.’ Photograph: ACORN 1/Acorn 1

James Kyle writes “with a heavy heart” against Labour’s treatment of pensioners, seeing the personal allowance threshold freeze as a betrayal that shows the Tories are more on the side of “those who have worked hard all their lives” (Letters, 12 April).

I’m no fan of Keir Starmer, but the suggestion that this is an anti-pensioner move is beyond credulity. Today’s pensioners benefited from numerous public goods that they also statistically voted against: publicly owned infrastructure; publicly funded university education; council housing and affordable private rents and house prices; robust workers’ rights; free movement across Europe.