article_snippet: David Cameron had given a speech outlining David Cameron commitment to annual rises in the state pension, protecting the health budget and entitlements to free TV licences and bus passes.
article_snippet: the Prime Minister finished the Prime Minister address to a ‘General Election rally’ held by the charity Age UK in central London London by urging the audience for spending on social care to ‘choose what’s right for our children and grandchildren’ by voting Conservative.
article_snippet: Cameron had given a speech outlining Cameron commitment to annual rises in the state pension, protecting the health budget and entitlements to free TV licences and bus passes before meeting with audience members .
article_snippet: Mr Cameron said older people should be a priority for ‘all ministers’, to loud groans from the audience.
article_snippet: the Prime Minister added: ‘If you are not satisfied with how elderly people are being looked after and valued by this government, don’t blame other ministers, blame me’, the Prime Minister said.
article_snippet: Mr Cameron has since insisted Mr Cameron is taking 'nothing for granted' and Mr Cameron focus is on beating 'Ed Miliband' Mr Andrews, a retired manager at a distilling firm, runs the Nottingham Elders’ Forum, a small charity which helps older people drive improvements to local services.
article_snippet: Mr Cameron said afterwards that Mr Cameron was ‘non-political’, but that Mr Cameron’s government had ‘not really’ done a lot for pensioners.
article_snippet: Another audience member, who did not give his name, asked Mr Cameron for a ‘cast iron guarantee’ that spending on health and social care were ‘safe at the present level’ if his was elected.
article_snippet: Mr Cameron said: ‘We’ve put an extra £12.7billion into the NHS in this parliament.
article_snippet: We have promised not to cut it, We will put more money into the NHS every year that I am Prime Minister.
article_snippet: ’ Maureen Childs, of the Green party’s pensioners group accused Mr Cameron of wanting to introduce health insurance and ‘’ Maureen Childs, of the Green party want the NHS as the NHS used to be – free at the point of use’.