Rob Bear

@OverlyBritish @linmeitalks Then we had better make the country more prosperous then….although that looks unlikely with all the death wish economics being spewed out by much of the left currently.

@Robbear66 @linmeitalks In 30 years pensions are predicted to be 8% of GDP, like £340bln+, if the triple lock continues. This would be more than the entire welfare budget rn (incl. current pension costs), it would be 1/4 the current budget. If the triple lock continues pensions will be abolished.

A Lifetime of memories don’t pay the bills. UK welfare spending is set to rise by £18 billion to reach £333 billion this year (£153 billion is state pension). This bill is projected to climb to over £400 billion by the end of the decade, exceeding current income tax revenue. HOW DO YOU PROPOSE WE PAY FOR IT?

@LibertyCappy Indonesia but not Malaysia?????

I agree with Japan being added but why in the world was South Korea excluded?

@MattGubba Well said!

There’s a lot of anger right now between young and old over pensions. Young people say it’s unfair. Older people say they’ve earned it. Both are right. And both are blaming the wrong people. The real problem isn’t pensioners. And it isn’t young people either. It’s the system. Let’s be honest. It is FAR harder to get on the property ladder today than it was in the 90s and early 2000s. Not because of interest rates. But because of access to credit. Before 2008: 100% mortgages. Sometimes even 110%. Minimal checks. Easy approvals. That’s what let people get on the ladder. It also helped push prices to insane levels. Now? Huge deposits. Strict income checks. Low borrowing limits. The drawbridge has been pulled up. No amount of “skip Netflix and coffee” is getting someone on £38k onto the ladder in the South East. That argument is nonsense. But forcing pensioners to sell their homes after a lifetime of work? That’s just as wrong. So we end up with both sides fighting each other… While the real issue goes untouched. There are only two ways out: More access to credit Or lower house prices (Or both) And here’s the uncomfortable truth no one wants to say: More people = more demand More demand = higher prices If we don’t deal with that, nothing changes. Blaming each other won’t fix this. Fixing the system will.

@linmeitalks It’s their home FFS!!!!

There are boomers sitting in large houses who don’t even want to free up equity or sell their house to help their own children get on the ladder. This is the level of selfishness we are dealing with. Thank god for parents like my mother She would sell her house in Tottenham tomorrow if it meant helping me…. And I would do anything to make her life comfortable- that’s what family is about. An eco system of giving. These days many boomers don’t want to help with grandchildren or finacial assistance and children don’t want to help their parents - so much selfishness between recent generations and it will get worse.

@DPJHodges Muslims just biding their time before they have their own party and MPs.

One thing the local elections will underline. It’s not just that the Labour vote is imploding to the Greens and Reform. The Muslim vote, previously a bedrock, is also going to fracture and get hoovered up by a rag-tag coalition of independents. And that’s an existential moment.

@drgerke1 Yes let’s send a message to anybody who makes any money is best off investing their gains outside the UK rather than within our country. Usual half baked socialist nonsense.

Yes - the limit should be 1

@DDBMons @shivmalik That may well be true. But the reasons behind this are due to structural/demographic social/economic changes. Don’t fall for this divide and rule by blaming it all on older generations, whom did not have it easy either. Life in 70s Britain was certainly no picnic.

@Robbear66 @shivmalik Great story… younger generations that just worked hard now can’t afford homes. I work a job that could easily afford a home in the 90s and 2000s, ha no one with less than 10 years seniority owns a home now unless they’re in their 50s and had another career prior to current job

Dear boomers, can you afford to buy the house you live in currently with the wage you used to earn before you retired? If you can’t, then that’s the whole housing problem in a nutshell. It really is that simple to understand.

@rathor7_ Oh shut up!

Built with $45 trillion looted from India.

@ReemAmirIbrahim Because the can will be passed on and younger people will one day fund their retirement. It’s not rocket science….thats how it works.

Why should young people have to pay for someone else’s retirement? If you live in a million pound house, and you can’t afford to retire, sell the house. Or don’t. I don’t care. You just can’t expect young people to pay for you!

@DanielJHannan One thing is for sure…..any hope that the tories may harbour of making a comeback, will be complete dead water if they betray their voting base….which is the over 50s.

My timeline is suddenly filled with posts along the lines of “We can easily give pensioners a better deal if we cut immigration/scrap DEI/end foreign aid/find some other footling saving.” Most of them look like bots, which raises the question: Who wants to push this narrative? Some unfriendly foreign power, presumably. For the avoidance of doubt, of course we should cut immigration, scrap DEI and end foreign aid. But that will barely make a dent in the budget. The biggest spending items are health and social security, and pensions are the biggest element of this latter. Politicians who don’t want to tackle these budgets a don’t want to cut spending. Every British party is currently failing this test.

@BenGrahamUK As a gay man myself I am sick of all this shit being done in my name.

£48,174. That’s how much Hounslow Council spent on a single rainbow crossing, the most expensive in England. Meanwhile, councils claim they’re struggling to fund basic services. Is this a justified expense, or a complete waste of taxpayer money?

@Nithya_Shrii Be like me and work at a location just 5 minutes walk away!

Am I the only one who thinks it’s wild that we work 8–9 hours, commute, come home, and only get a few hours to ourselves… and that includes cooking, showering, and getting ready for the next day?? Like, when exactly are we supposed to live?

For those wanting to drive a wedge between the Old and the Young by suggesting our State Pensioners are overpaid - I suggest they read this

@OlIyCFC If you are under 55 and don’t realise that one day you too will be a pensioner also, you are an unfathomable idiot.

If you’re under 55 and vote for this party you are an unfathomably large idiot.

@leonfleming @benappel Green today, pink tomorrow……Just thinking ahead.

@Robbear66 @benappel My hair is green. Are you colour blind?

'I was gay, I had faced discrimination, and I had fought for my rights. But now that gay rights had become “LGBTQ” rights, I found myself force-teamed with a lot of people whose values were nothing like mine.' My latest op-ed for The Wall Street Journal: wsj.com/opinion/im-gay…

@Cal_III A masters in naval gazing is useless. Uni does not qualify you for the jobs market.

I’ve got pals who’ve completed masters at uni and can’t land jobs, housing has never been more expensive; highest tax burden since ww2. But it’s ok. Reform have thrown a tea party for the wealthiest generation in history.

@dave43law The message this sends out? Don’t bother showing ambition, and working hard and becoming a higher rate tax payer. Just plod along.

The time has come for 'state pension' to be means tested Removal of those 3 million from the equation at the very least would free £36billion to fund others

@technopopulist It does not have to be either or. Their pension, will one day be your pension…& boomers have simply been aspiring to things that the younger people should also be able to one day have. We have to work out how to lift younger generations up, without cutting down the elderly.

My view of the boomers, as a generation, is that they often hold commonsense positions that younger people have lost, especially on questions of biology, relationships, and discipline. In that respect, I think British boomers are often right to push back against some of the more outlandish ideological trends among the young. But at the same time, the political economy has been tilted in their favour for decades, and against younger people. Boomers have consistently backed parties that helped entrench that imbalance. On immigration, I respect their instinctive patriotism. But those same voters also supported parties that ignored the democratic wishes of large parts of the British public. So take this as a peace offering. On many issues, boomers speak more sense than younger generations, and that’s worth listening to. But there’s no getting around the fact that younger people have been left carrying the cost of decisions made over many decades. Some ground is going to have to be conceded.