@PoliticsThatch @VerhofstadtQ Leftism? A state pension is leftism.
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@VerhofstadtQ It’s ludicrous & classic leftyism nonsense….i had to pay loads to top mine up & got a letter confirming I have now PAID IN the required
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They are trying to say that you don't "buy" a state pension, but the fact you don't get the full whack if you haven't made enough contributions destroys their argument instantly.
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@AlBonDeega @VerhofstadtQ It makes it a tax, not a contribution, making the payment a benefit
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@VerhofstadtQ And the fact that you can't opt out of paying for it and contributions are mandatory makes it an entitlement, instead of a benefit, imho
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@tag4UK @justinmmathews @jakeyjake1734 You want to point fingers at foreigners, with no self reflection, especially concerning the future to the younger generation of Britains who can't afford to make the step into homeownership despite working and saving.
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They own everything because the government hasn't built new houses, and the ones they have built they've filled with people who cba to work or people who shouldn't even be in this country.
Without mass immigration, we would have more houses, more jobs, more hospital beds, more gp appointments, more school places, more choice and more money.
The government has caused this, probably so everyone is at each others throats, because if we actually stuck together and looked at them, they would be done for and they know it.
'Keep them divided, keep them down'.
You're attacking the wrong people.
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The whole 'pension' debate is ridiculous, if we didn't give billions away to other countries and foreign nationals, we would have enough for every British person who needed it, pensions, pip, child benefit, disability... we could afford to help everyone in need.
The government is laughing it's arse off watching you all argue with each other.
Divided they fall.
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@obsessafilma @starmerstie Whore behaviour, plain and simple, no real man wants a woman that's been passed around
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@VapourTimes @starmerstie I don't need to feel better about not having terrible sex but thanks
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I think forcing women to work full time on top of raising kids and running a house has had a massive detrimental effect on women and society as a whole.
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@tag4UK @justinmmathews @jakeyjake1734 Even more billions are being spent on the age group that own everything
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@VapourTimes @starmerstie Of course you'd be mad about that, if they're not a virgin then they'll know how trash you are in bed.
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@obsessafilma @starmerstie Women aren't even virgins these days, let's not go there
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@VapourTimes @starmerstie Well, when the men aren't man enough...
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@justinmmathews @tag4UK @jakeyjake1734 So well over half of the welfare budget is going to people who own their own homes, bought at heavily discounted prices compared to today, who also had a lifetime to save up for retirement?
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@tag4UK @jakeyjake1734 Indeed. Let in millions of people who offer nothing and then tell the pensioners we can’t afford your pension and that houses are too expensive. The idiocy is amazing.
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@sammieirv007 @MsFoyin She invalidated her whole point, has no clue how taxes work
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@Tinebobagain Jamaicans are still being given social housing in inner London.
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Remigration frees up a LOT of housing.
Just saying.
Catherine Blaiklock@blaiklockBP
89% of those aged 66 and over own a property, and the overwhelming majority own outright with no mortgage. 1.7% of those aged 25-34 own their property outright. More than four in ten (42%) British adults under 40 who don't currently own a home have effectively given up on ever owning property — even among those earning over £60,000 a year, 38% say they can't see themselves affording a home in the next decade.
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@VapourTimes Well tbh it wasn’t me nor my ancestors that wanted anything. My entire lineage as far as I can go back were home makers while the men worked manual labour jobs
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@starmerstie Women weren't banned, they wanted to be men, now they're complaining that they don't get time to be a woman because of all this man stuff they are doing
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@VapourTimes It’s a bit more complicated than that. I don’t think women should be banned from working. The issue is, is that a lot of women still do more than a full working week of unpaid labour, and then are expected to work a job as well
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@jackisgeeky @blaiklockBP Someone who can't extrapolate lessons from other developed nations
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So if we have deflation of -10%, pensions still go up +2.5%
Carl Benjamin 🏴@Sargon_of_Akkad
I suspect people don't realise how extractive the triple lock is on pensions. The triple lock means the state pension goes up by whichever is highest of: 1. Average earnings growth 2. Inflation as measured by September CPI 3. 2.5% regardless of any other factors. Inflation is 3.8% and nominal earnings growth is 4.8%, but even if you were flatlining and your earnings didn't outpace inflation, the pensions would still rise.
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@Max490294289770 @lucyjaynewhite1 High trust, I hate when these buzz words become overused, you found a phone and gave it back, it's called beging a good person, thou shall not steal, not everything is the politics of the day
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@lucyjaynewhite1 I remember finding a phone on a cruise ship once as a child, did the same thing and got it back to its owner, he was so thankful he gave me a gift, I miss that high trust culture
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Today, I found an iPhone dropped in the road in London.
I stopped & picked it up. As it was still unlocked, I managed to contact the owner & return it to him.
This is an example of the high trust society my ancestors created, that I will preserve.
His phone had an upgrade 🇬🇧🇬🇧
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@blaiklockBP When have we ever had deflation, or even inflation under 2.5%?
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Your generation are voting for the fucking greens.
Stop blaming pensioners who have CONSISTENTLY voted against mass immigration and get your fucking peers in line.
I’m sick of YOUR shit.
Hugh Anthony@TheHughAnthony
I am sick to death of older people being condescending towards the younger generation. I know a lot of young native British people that have to work multiple jobs just to afford rent because of the country we have been left with from past generations mistakes. We are struggling
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@d_peter17473 @RachelT1722 @redrumlisa I did not use the term 'boomers', you are trying to find offence to avoid the addressing the point
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@VapourTimes @RachelT1722 @redrumlisa No rational person would ever generalise about 13 million people and in any case elites decide not "boomers"
The fact that you talk about your own elderly relatives in this way says plenty about you and your agenda
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This is becoming typical now of the prejudices & bigotry & misinformation towards older people through the 'boomer' rhetoric & is very worrying. Young people wanting to get rid of pensions with no understanding that removing benefits means you wont get them back when you need them. More worrying though we have assisted dying & this generation is in control of that.
Tomos Doran 🏴 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🇮🇱 🇵🇸@portraitinflesh
Meanwhile, even the slightest gesture towards reducing the generous state benefits available to over-65s - a cohort that mostly attended university for free, by the way - is politically toxic enough to almost collapse a government. Why does this country hate young people so much?
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@d_peter17473 @RachelT1722 @redrumlisa The people who already reaped the benefits of a strong economy that no longer exists for the next
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@RachelT1722 @redrumlisa No I can't understand actually since it's your own parents and grandparents we're talking about here
The people who kept this country going long before you were born
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