@StephanProwell@danmizen@SandyofSuffolk Easy to say "it'll get better" when you're on the other side of one of the best economic periods in British history.
@EssKayFlex@danmizen@SandyofSuffolk He doesn’t seem to understand people have similar lives to the one he describes now, and it doesn’t change in their late twenties like it seemed to for him…
Younger generation to pensioners: "Why didn't you save more into a private pension?"
Because most women stayed at home to look after your mums and dads and so didn't earn anything, let alone save anything.
And your granddads were struggling to pay the 14% mortgage rates.
And any 'pin' money your nans earned from little part time jobs was spent spoiling you on days out at the seaside, birthdays and Christmas and slipping your mum and dad a few quid on the sly when they were a bit hard up.
Just so you know.
@ARandomKaren@canadiancarol1 Again I've caught you bullshitting and you default to childish insults, sounds an awful lot like projection to me little girl!
The anger against pensioners on here is enlightening .... envy, jealousy and greed with no perception as to who will pay for their old age - because it is all about the NOW and entitlement.
@EssKayFlex@andrew10612@canadiancarol1 Listen I’m not well off at all but comfortable.Don’t knock people who have worked hard all our lives.I really do hope that you reach pension age and there is a pension.Run correctly by a government that does right by it’s people there should be.
@EssKayFlex@StephanProwell@SandyofSuffolk No kebab shops about when I was younger that I can recall.
Never had an international holiday until I was late Twenty’s
Until then all my holidays were in the same county in a static caravan
Entertainment was 1p & 2p slot machines
Beach with a windbreaker because it was 🥶
@ARandomKaren@canadiancarol1 Tell me old man, why are you so concerned with follower counts and spend so much time on twitter, if you hate modern technology and think it's a waste of money? Oh yeah, you don't actually have any conviction you just want to do the exact thing you're accusing me of. Whine.
@GaryNorbury3@andrew10612@canadiancarol1 > my mum is in her 50s working as a carer, and I don't and never have had a relationship with my dad so I couldn't tell you.
@EssKayFlex@andrew10612@canadiancarol1 Listen I worked 7 full days a week for months on end due to overtime .When I came home at t time my wife passed me at the door going to do p/time work.I brought up two kids,paid 14% interest on my mortgage at one point.Just be patient your time will come.Are your parents retired?
@GaryNorbury3@andrew10612@canadiancarol1 The current 6% interest still works out at around 25% when adjusted for the 14% of the 80s/early 90s due to higher debt to income ratios today. Mortgage costs would account for 11% of disposable income in 1980, with the stats for 2022 being around 45% of disposable income. >
@andrew10612@GaryNorbury3@canadiancarol1 Okay, and the CPS recently projected that high levels of migration between 2021 and 2024 could result in a long term fiscal impact of around £234 billion, driven by the future settlement of over 800,000 migrants.
@TriggSheena@canadiancarol1 I meant it more as a general "you", in the same way older people call ALL young people lazy and ALL young people entitled. The view is that the boomer gen ruined any opportunity we had before we were even born, so if you're part of that generation there'll be some resentment.
@andrew10612@GaryNorbury3@canadiancarol1 That doesn't take into account money used to support illegal migrants and money taken out of the British economy by migrants and sent back home to different countries.
@GaryNorbury3@andrew10612@canadiancarol1 I mean in terms of what you get for your work, you have to put in twice as much work in terms of hours put in, just to get out half as much as what people got out in previous generations. As for the the migration, I've had a bee in my bonnet about it for the last decade.
@EssKayFlex@andrew10612@canadiancarol1 Twice as hard,what do you do?..You’re only doing what I did but I’m older than you.Why do you call out people that have worked hard all their life but you haven’t mentioned the billions going to house and feed illegal migrants.
@FeldsparElodie@stmanapii@HadrianMusic@canadiancarol1 Talking like followers and post numbers mean anything and then telling me to get a life as if you're not chronically online paying for twitter premium. Hop off twitter and give your head a wobble you mong.
@GaryNorbury3@andrew10612@canadiancarol1 I'm 27 and I've worked since I was 16. I know exactly what hard work is. You're just mad that you're not the one hard done by anymore. People in my gen have to work twice as hard as you did for half as much of what you got.
@EssKayFlex@andrew10612@canadiancarol1 I never said it was the hardest did I?.You try climbing poles in rain,ice snow etc.Can I ask how old are you?.The reason I ask is because you sound like an entitled spoilt kid who hasn’t done a proper job.