Miss Jardine

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Miss Jardine

Miss Jardine

@PolThreeOne

“The guest will judge better of a feast than the cook.”

Inscrit le Ekim 2022
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Miss Jardine
Miss Jardine@PolThreeOne·
@RickSacrop Moving costs, sale and purchase costs, stamp duty are part of it. But packing up, cleaning, decorating, putting curtains up! It's a lot for older people to do so they have to pay people to do that as well... at the end of the day its not financially worth it.
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Rick Sacrop. 🇬🇧 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🥋🎸🎹 🏉🇺🇦
One of the reasons you often find elderly people, on their own, in a large house is stamp duty. If they downsize they get clobbered for tax so it isn't economically viable. Abolish stamp duty on downsizers and we will see a huge shift in the market. And HMRC get Tax on the resale
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BryanPunkEcon
BryanPunkEcon@bryanstrummer·
@notanerable Pensioners vote with Oyster cards, workers need passports. This is what 'no political power' looks like in the UK. Same chaotic minds that brought us Brexit. Absurd.
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Rex v Notan
Rex v Notan@notanerable·
I’ve had to hear from multiple people today that pensioners have no political power or influence in the UK. Reminder we have Voter ID laws in the UK.
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Peter McCormack 🏴‍☠️🇬🇧🇮🇪
I’d like policies which help young people: - No income tax until 25 - No stamp duty until 25 - No welfare until 25 - No minimum wage ever But also… - No voting until 25
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Miss Jardine
Miss Jardine@PolThreeOne·
@CptHastings1916 In my small village which has a railway station and pubs and shops, chemist, chippy, bakers - 2 to 3 bed terraces are going for 100-160k. Easy commute anywhere in West and North Yorkshire.
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NPRG@CptHastings1916·
I don't know what young people are moaning about, housing in England is totally affordable if you're willing to move to a cramped terrace in a remote coastal town with no railway station where all the pubs close at 9pm and you have no social circle or employment prospects.
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Miss Jardine
Miss Jardine@PolThreeOne·
@JoeSorgea @ScottGoetz_ I wouldn't care if my house lost 99% of its value. I'd still be living in it. It would still be the same house.
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Joe Sorgea
Joe Sorgea@JoeSorgea·
@ScottGoetz_ It's because any sort of relief for new home buyers would come at the expense of boomers' property values. They see property as an investment vehicle rather than something to use, live in, enjoy
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Scott Goetz
Scott Goetz@ScottGoetz_·
Never will understand why old people get so viciously angry when it is explained to them they bought houses at a good time and it would be nice if similar conditions existed now. I suppose it is just insecurity at the idea owning a home really wasn’t a grand achievement for them.
Sandy Tregent@SandyofSuffolk

Read the comments under my original post. You show them houses they can afford and they come up with spurious excuse after spurious excuse why they can't. Good God, these people. No wonder the country is doomed. Hardly anyone under about 40 wants to get off their bums and actually do anything to make their lives better. But they'll moan at pensioners. 🙄

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Miss Jardine
Miss Jardine@PolThreeOne·
@gearoidmurphy_ They could sell it and use the equity to buy it. That's how boomers have the houses they do - they bought small, moved up the chain, using equity to pay for the next upgrade.
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Gearóid Murphy
Gearóid Murphy@gearoidmurphy_·
A better comparison is whether the boomer could buy the house they live in with the current wage for the job and experience level they had when they originally bought it. So if you were a 30yo bus driver when you bought your house, what house would you get now as a 30yo bus driver.
Shiv Malik@shivmalik

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.

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Miss Jardine
Miss Jardine@PolThreeOne·
@mhdp @gearoidmurphy_ Mortgages were hard to get, this kept house prices down. Biggest factor is supply and demand, but also schemes like right to buy, stamp duty holidays (gov interference) always inflates.
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Miss Jardine
Miss Jardine@PolThreeOne·
@gearoidmurphy_ I have bought three houses in my life and non had double glazing, central heating etc - one didn't even have an inside bathroom. If anything 'boomer' houses have been refurbished to the max.
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Gearóid Murphy
Gearóid Murphy@gearoidmurphy_·
No matter how stringent I try to be against boomer denialism, I still catch myself understating it. Even the above like-for-like still misses an important point. I said to buy the same house, when in fact those very same houses now often have an old roof, wiring, plumbing etc that will be very expensive to overhaul, whereas it was often <15yo when the boomer bought it back then. So for a proper comparison, you would need to find a house nearby of same proportion but built after 2010. This is a much overlooked factor and puts things in even starker contrast.
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Paul Lewis
Paul Lewis@paullewismoney·
If you were born in the nineteen sixties your state pension age starts rising from Monday costing millions of people thousands of pounds and will save govt £10.4bn a year. Did you know? with Zoe Alexander of @PensionsUK_ on @Moneybox noon @BBCRadio4
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Miss Jardine
Miss Jardine@PolThreeOne·
@364690 I don't have a sweet tooth. Rarely eat chocolate. But damn I love a Turkish Delight, and I have no idea why.
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George Smiley
George Smiley@364690·
One for purists and cognoscenti among us. Fry's Turkish Delight. Perfumed goodness.
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Gad Saad
Gad Saad@GadSaad·
Married professor caught in an illicit affair with a Belgian Queen.
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Sean Dineen
Sean Dineen@dineen20dineen·
Did you have one of these purses
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No Farmers, No Food
No Farmers, No Food@NoFarmsNoFoods·
Instead of throwing unused food away, UK supermarkets should donate unsold food to local food banks - especially during the cost of living crisis. They already do this in France.
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Miss Jardine
Miss Jardine@PolThreeOne·
@Amy_90_x I just whack it in the oven on gas 5 and it's done when it's done. I find the less you fuss with lamb the better - don't cover it, don't stab it with garlic and herbs and definitely don't bain-marie it.
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🦋 Amy 🦋
🦋 Amy 🦋@Amy_90_x·
Im cooking a whole leg of lamb tomorrow. How do you like your lamb? I like it slow cooked for 4 - 5 hours. Nice and tender.
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Miss Jardine
Miss Jardine@PolThreeOne·
@lucyshow11 I was sad we didn't have this at school. Had to go outside the gates :( Demeaning.
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Luce
Luce@lucyshow11·
Can you believe this??! 😅
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Nadia
Nadia@confidencenac·
When did this country, especially on the left, become so ignorant and cruel that it begrudges a Granny a yearly pension amount of £12.5k? Take a hike!
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BritMatters 🇬🇧
BritMatters 🇬🇧@britmatters·
The Man Who Paid In & The Man Who Paid Nothing. Meet Frank, the man who paid in. Frank turned 80 last winter. He grafted 52 years as a builder in Manchester, his hands and back are broken from laying bricks in pouring rain. Every week he paid his National Insurance. Never claimed benefits. Never broke the law. He raised two kids on a council estate, paid his taxes and did his bit for the country he loves. Now he shuffles to the post office in the same coat he’s worn since 2018. His old Nokia phone barely holds the charge. His State Pension is £241.30 a week, just over £12,500 a year, but after gaps, Frank gets less. He counts every penny. Some weeks it’s heating or eating. Last winter around 2,500 people in England died from cold associated causes. Frank keeps the thermostat at 15 degrees and wears jumpers indoors. "I’m not living," he tells his neighbour. "I’m just existing." His wife, Margaret, has been in a care home for two years, dementia stealing her away. Frank struggles to keep their old car on the road for weekly visits. One more breakdown and those trips could end. Every pension day is the same. Frank walks past the bookies where young fighting age men fresh off small boats shout, laugh and slap down stacks of cash twice as thick as his weekly pension. He keeps his head down, clutching his wallet, praying nobody follows him home. His street no longer feels like his street. Fewer familiar faces. Foreign languages. The corner shop is now a Turkish barbers. He feels all alone in the city he once helped build. Meet Ahmed, the man who paid nothing. Ahmed arrived on a dinghy last summer, one of 41,472 Channel crossings in 2025, mostly young men from Somalia, Eritrea, Afghanistan and Sudan. He tossed his documents into the sea, then claimed asylum the moment the dinghy touched the beach. No passport. No papers. No contributions. The Home Office puts him in a hotel. Heating on full. Three meals a day. Security on the door.Ahmed strolls the streets in new clothes and the latest iPhone, using free bus shuttles twice a day, drinking and laughing with friends outside the same bookies Frank avoids. He broke immigration rules entering the country uninvited. Once granted asylum, the door opens to UK benefits and housing. Frank paid in all his life and obeyed every rule. He built the Britain that now houses Ahmed. Ahmed has paid nothing and doesn't obey the rules, he receives shelter, warmth, food, free transport and pocket money while Frank rations food, huddles under blankets to keep warm and constantly worries about money. Tonight as Ahmed relaxes in a warm hotel room with new Nike trainers by the bed, wondering what’s for dinner. Frank sits in his cold home wondering why a lifetime of hard work brings only deprivation. This story is repeating in towns and cities across the country. This isn’t fairness. This is a betrayal. #UKNews #UKPolitics #StopTheBoats
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Miss Jardine
Miss Jardine@PolThreeOne·
@WorldOBarry @confidencenac Yes of course they are... because as you live longer you generally accrue more wealth. It's how it works... try it. When you get to 67.5 you too might find you have more disposable income and assets than you do now.
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Barry Carrington's World Of Procrastination
@PolThreeOne @confidencenac In terms of numbers, yes they are. But even if trying to change the subject away from profound policy-voted generation inequality among the 99%. The top end is also skewed: "2023 Sunday Times Rich List analysis suggested the top 100 richest in the UK had an average age of 67.5"
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Miss Jardine
Miss Jardine@PolThreeOne·
@i30sch1 Socialism will hit even harder, enjoy this prosperity whilst you can.
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wages in the UK honestly don’t add up. how are people expected to afford rent thats over £1,000 a month, then still cover gas, electricity, and groceries? by the time everything is paid there’s basically nothing left
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Miss Jardine
Miss Jardine@PolThreeOne·
@LynnClark1 I'm saving every penny I have for my kids, so they don't turn out bitter shits like you.
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Lynz #NoDigitalID
Lynz #NoDigitalID@LynnClark1·
Okey dokey Dear Boomers Sell your home Live the high life 🥂 Go on those cruises you’re accused of Spend it ALL!! Then get put into a home for your dotage & the taxpayer will pay £2K+ a week for your care (much higher than your meagre pension with triple lock) Enjoy!! 💋xxx
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