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@bundle_of_joy69

Enjoy...or don’t, it’s your choice. 🤷🏽‍♂️ I believe in a pragmatic approach to things. Zimbabwean. Focused on the looming millennial crises.

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common sense@bundle_of_joy69·
Just a ranty thread on why we need a leader with a vision for the UK. We face: 1️⃣a taxation crises 2️⃣a housing crises 3️⃣a childcare cost crises 4️⃣a wage growth crises We cannot plod along, being taxed in poverty like this. #CostOfLivingCrisis #energycrisis #FridayMotivation
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2 million extra higher rate tax payers since 2019. The UK is literally being taxed into poverty during a #CostOfLivingCrisis. I thought people voted for low tax Tory’s, not Jeremy Corbyn in disguise.

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@AlanWilkes16 How many could buy an affordable house? Yes, all of you. 🤣 must have been so hard buying a home for the price of 2 bananas.
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🇬🇧Slowly but surely🇬🇧@AlanWilkes16·
How many buying houses now have to stump up 16 - 18% mortgage interest, just like we had to... yes about 0.
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@DrHoenderkamp So we should keep paying tens of billions to the 1in5 millionaire pensioners? To reward them for creating these terrible economic mess we are in? Seems silly. No one claims it will solve all those issues, but it will finally stop costing taxpayers tens of billions more a year
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Renée Hoenderkamp@DrHoenderkamp·
These young people who never think they will be old, who think that changing the triple lock, depriving the elderly of the £16bn uplift a year will change the housing market, the job market, suddenly see salaries quadruple... they show how idiotic and economically illiterate they are. Stop blaming the elserly, 90%+ of whom worked and paid tax for the catasptrophic economic approacj that has affected the young.
Lin Mei@linmeitalks

Can I ask why, if a pensioner has worked all their life, they only have the state pension to rely on? Didn’t decide to save ? Put away for a rainy day ? Sounds like poor planning to me. And yes if your children have flown the nest and you, or you and your spouse are knocking around in a 3 or 4 bedroom house you bought decades ago- SELL it. You’ll have more than enough to live on.

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common sense@bundle_of_joy69·
@SandyofSuffolk For a generation that pulled up the ladder behind you, this is hilarious You had cheap housing with deposit free mortgages. You had lower taxes and could deduct your mortgage interest. You had free university. You had final salary pensions. Life was on easy mode for you
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Sandy Tregent@SandyofSuffolk·
The trouble is young people have been told for years "you can be anything you want to be", when you can't. They've seen a handful of people make millions from being an influencer. They've all gone to university thinking it'll be a gateway to a better job when, really, if you're not exceptionally bright, you may as well not have bothered. The majority of people have to settle for run of the mill boring jobs. And young people are resentful. They're waking up to the fact life is hard graft and to get anything you have to work hard, long hours, and forego many things that, until adulthood, were handed to them on a plate. They're lashing out because too many people like teachers and their soft parents haven't prepared them for life in the real world. It's coming home to roost that life isn't all unicorns and gap years. They want what nan and grandad have. Now. Now!! They forget how nan and grandad got it and it wasn't by sitting on their bums on Playstation. Welcome to planet earth young 'uns.
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@WorldByWolf Even the 20% to 30% is just a start. We have to shift our spending from OPEX to CAPEX expenditure urgently and that means everyone pulling their weight, pensioners and those on benefits.
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Wolf 🐺@WorldByWolf·
For the first time ever the welfare bill is going to exceed all the revenue raised via income tax. Had we remained on a pre-Covid trend we’d be spending £80-100 billion less on welfare than we currently are. We have to start talking about cuts to welfare in the c.20-30% region.
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common sense@bundle_of_joy69·
People acting like we only need to change one thing when the opposite is true. I want many changes to truly set the UK free: - scrap triple lock - time limit benefits to 18 months - scrap defined benefit pensions - scrap net zero - drastically cut regulations - smaller state
Sophie Corcoran@sophielouisecc

If we are complaining about pensions then we should be complaining about the gold plated public sector pensions of civil servants, council workers that actually do very little Why are we paying for them to have absurdly high pensions yet draw the line at the triple lock?

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@GBNEWS Imagine moving to a country where you don’t speak the language. Talk about being nuts. 🤣🤣
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GB News@GBNEWS·
‘Dumbing down attainment.’ ‘A deeply troubling thing to say.’ Clare Muldoon and Jonathan Lis debate whether children who can’t speak English in Britain should attend school, as schools receive funding to support pupils who have English as a second language.
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common sense@bundle_of_joy69·
In an increasingly uncertain world we can’t pay to keep the idle at home when we need to invest in the defence of this great country. Scrap triple lock Time limit benefits for 99% Invest in the UK’s future by building things again. A new way forward is possible.
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common sense@bundle_of_joy69·
@SandyofSuffolk It’s a fair question to ask Sandy. Your generation had: - free university - literally cheap housing - tax deductible mortgage interest - final salary pensions / defined benefit So expecting larger annual rises than workers receive who pay your pension is a bit greedy.
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Sandy Tregent@SandyofSuffolk·
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.
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common sense@bundle_of_joy69·
It’s a fair question to ask Sandy. Your generation had: - free university - literally cheap housing - tax deductible mortgage interest - final salary pensions / defined benefit So expecting larger annual rises than workers receive who pay your pension is a bit greedy.
Sandy Tregent@SandyofSuffolk

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.

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common sense@bundle_of_joy69·
One can argue that both are wrong though - 1 in 5 pensioners is a millionaire - The triple lock is grossly unfair to workers paying these pensions - Working age benefits should be time limited We urgently need to reduce spending on welfare so that we can reinvest it elsewhere
Sophie Corcoran@sophielouisecc

Some families on universal credit are getting the equivalent take home pay of a £71k salary for doing the square root of fuck all Do you really think I’m going to be angry at pensioners getting a pension that’s less than most of Europe - that they have earned No - no im not They aren’t the problem

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common sense@bundle_of_joy69·
Giving pensioners a larger annual increase than what workers get when it’s the workers who have to pay for these pensions is immoral. If wages only go up 1% then pensions should only go up 1%. It’s just common sense 🤷‍♂️ #TripleLock #ScrapTripleLock #Pension #BrokenBritain
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common sense@bundle_of_joy69·
I’ve not met or heard anyone that is happy to pay the idle indefinitely. Literally none. People want the benefits bill brought down. We spend over £300 billion a year on it. It’s costly & unaffordable. So yes, let’s target the triple lock AND those of working age.
Sandy Tregent@SandyofSuffolk

Isn't it funny how so many people resent pensioners getting £954 every 4 weeks, but they're happy to fund millions of working age people sitting on their bums all day watching TV because they claim to be anxious, or illegal immigrants living it up in warm hotels eating three meals a day. Strange old world.

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common sense@bundle_of_joy69·
We simply cannot afford all the welfare this country pays for. We have to cut benefits and that includes pensions. The triple lock simply has to be scrapped.
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common sense@bundle_of_joy69·
It’s hard to feel sympathy for a generation that lifted up the ladder behind them They had free education, final salary pensions, bought homes for a dime. It was so easy that 1 in 5 pensioners is a millionaire yet still they demand more money from workers Scrap the triple lock
REC@rec777777

Thank you @Nigel_Farage for keeping the triple lock Pensioners paid in all their working lives and deserve something back in their old age The young moaning, need to work harder. Start work earlier and do more of the kind of hours we did, to improve the Nations productivity

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common sense@bundle_of_joy69·
@mgshanks Why haven’t our energy bills dropped then Mike? It’s almost as if we need a 24/7 energy supply and not an intermittent one.
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Michael Shanks MP@mgshanks·
Britain smashed more renewable energy records last year. Wind delivered 30% of electricity, solar generation grew by 37% & UK emissions fell to 54% of 1990 levels. More clean power means more control over our energy security, bills and our future.
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