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@Artemisfornow What is public money and where does it come from? What's the correct question here: Can government afford whatever it can do, or can it only do whatever it can afford? We've fasely assumed the latter for decades and all it's brought us is decline. youtube.com/watch?v=Q03GKw…

I’m bored of telling you that all the parties are lying to you. Because if they told you the truth they wouldn’t be elected. Britain is nearly bankrupt and politicians have no idea where this ‘mythical’ growth to cover obscene spending will come from Because they can’t! There isn’t any. The working-age population is shrinking, the number of people claiming benefits is rising, and the public sector, funded by the private sector, is ballooning. AI is on track to replace huge amounts of white-collar jobs in the next 10–15 years. All of these people will be jobless and needing to claim benefits. Which we won’t be able to afford to pay! The guff about “net zero” and “green jobs” is bollocks (technical term) Those jobs only exist during the construction phase, after that, these are largely automated industries. As for those shouting about Universal Basic Income er … from where? How would it be funded? You’re dreaming. And those saying we can just tax the corporations, they’re dreaming too. They’ll just operate from outside the UK. And to control you … as you demand pay rises and more benefits? Well a near total clampdown of speech and thought through legislation and censorship and those Digital IDs, “just so you behave yourself.” There really is little growth, even trades will be hit because the population won’t have the money to buy their services. We’re are in a badly managed decline, with grossly under qualified and incapable leadership in any party at all. And all those screaming to tax the wealthy? You’re just morons. I’m annoyed 💣

@brexitblog_info @GBNEWS Maintaining the triple lock is far more ‘socialist’ than what this guy is suggesting

@GBNEWS I can’t stand this socialist twerp.

'Pensioners should not be exempt from the economic winds just because they're the most likely to vote.' Jonathan Lis weighs in on the triple lock pension and successive governments' insistance on keeping it. 📺 Freeview 236, Sky 512, Virgin 604

@cezthesocialist Monstrously selfish generation

Only a boomer would admit they don’t need the State Pension and then say that young people should work more than full time to pay for it anyway. I haven’t checked but I would bet everything I have on him also frequently demonising younger people on benefits they actually need too

@andie52 @wham52 @linmeitalks The ‘so?’ Is that this completely unsustainable, and without an extraordinary economic boom will eventually bankrupt the State. Pension growth should be pegged to wage growth and only wage growth; otherwise the required tax rises will collapse an already decrepit economy.

@hjonku @wham52 @linmeitalks So? That's how it works; nobody has ever said they get back what they pay in. When you retire, generations after you will pay for your pension as current pensioners did for generations prior to them. It's a contributory benefit; where's your hate for those on lifetime benefits?

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.

@wham52 @linmeitalks The triple lock ensures that the majority of pensioners will take out nearly twice the amount they paid in, at an ever increasing costs to young workers who have to deal with flatlined growth, stagnant wages and insane housing costs. It is neither fair nor sustainable.

@linmeitalks This very comment shows how self entitled you are. Many worked, saved and didn’t take a penny out of the system. They were told that if they paid NI they were entitled to a state pension. Some may fall on hard times and have no other money to fall back on. Grow up.

@TStafford14961 @IainDale Should? They haven't for over 20 years now. And with increasing geopolitical instability, the UK is very exposed to supply shocks that will result in more inflation spikes. All while GDP and productivity growth continue to flatline.

One day, a politician will have the bollocks to say in public what they're quite happy to say when the microphone is off, and that is this. The Triple lock is unaffordable and must go. We all know it. And I say that as someone who in four years would benefit from it.

@TStafford14961 @IainDale No. Wages only. We no longer live in a world where wage growth outpaces inflation, so in a double lock system pension growth will continue to unsustainably outpace wage growth.

@IainDale Yes. For a while it could have been justified, as a way to gradually consolidate a decent level of state pension. But moving to a double lock, wages and inflation, would be a far more sensible structure. An average of the two, even better.

@IainDale State pension growth must be pegged to wage growth and wage growth only. This is the only way to make it sustainable in the long term, and will incentivise governments to further protect the interests of workers.

@Soubriquet_ @PensionsMonkey The triple lock ensures that, in the medium/long term, pension growth will alway outstrip wage growth. This is complete unsustainable. Income tax is crippling as is, and this dynamic only ensures that it increases in perpetuity.

When did it become OK to hate on the elders of society? Means testing was ruled out by successive governments because it would cost more than it would save. I.e. most pensioners would qualify as they have low incomes. Tom and his kind would likely kill kittens, kick dogs if it would generate attention and earn them income on X.

Left unchecked, the Triple Lock will consume the entire known universe, it is an unsustainable transfer of wealth from people in work to the retired. It has to stop. thetimes.com/uk/politics/ar…

Keir Starmer meets his boss who congratulates him for not attacking his paymasters the in Iran.

That embrace and quiet talk in the ear is quite the power move. Who do you think is in charge?

@luvwinsresist @1mysticalginger @briebriejoy You clearly don't understand Tourette's, otherwise you wouldn't be demanding that he apologise for something he can't control. This is the whole point. Would you also demand that a MND patient apologise for dropping a glass or something? Try to have a bit of charity here.

@hjonku @1mysticalginger @briebriejoy I have known about Tourette's long before this incident ever happened. He isn't the only person in the world with the disorder. And I am demonizing him for something that he cannot control. But at the same he should've immediately apologized but he didn't. That's the problem

The BBC intentionally left the N word in a broadcast after editing out homophobic slurs and “free Palestine,” and somehow theres no room in the discourse for Black people to take offense.

@luvwinsresist @1mysticalginger @briebriejoy Please please watch ‘I swear’. Just please educate yourself on Tourette’s syndrome, and then maybe you’ll start to a have a bit of sympathy for the the hell John Davidson has had to live with his entire life.

@1mysticalginger @briebriejoy Its so wild to me how ya'll act like a person can't be racist and disabled at the same time

@IterIntellectus Such an odd simulacrum of a man. Every word betrays a soullessness rare even among his peers. Perhaps the closest thing society has produced to a living portrait of Dorian Gray.

“you need to looksmax bro” “to get girls?” “no, to mog other bros” “to then get girls?” “no, fuck girls, you must think about the boys” “but thats to be successful and reproduce right?” “no bro, im infertile from all the drugs”

@hasanthehun Can you stop using the word ‘agitprop’? I think you think it sounds cool because it’s a Soviet thing but you clearly don’t know what it means and it’s embarrassing. (Though tbf everything you do is embarrassing, I don’t know how you can show your face anywhere)

bleak future of all media. vigilante content that can be weaponized for racialized/ white nativist agitprop. everyone’s gonna behave like the fake “pedo hunters”

@Sargon_of_Akkad @Louise_m_perry @BretWeinstein Not even in the top 5 factors. Birth rates plummeting in countries that have nothing like the state pension provisions of Western countries. And if young people think about the state pension as all, they’re often just questioning its sustainability.

@Louise_m_perry @BretWeinstein The answer is pensions. People aren’t having children because they don't think they will need children to take care of them later. All else flows from this, imo.

It doesn’t make sense to say that delayed marriage is the only reason for reduced fertility rates, because delayed marriage is itself a consequence of birth control and the modern version of feminism + hook up culture that followed from it. In fairness to the excellent @Louise_m_perry, she’s not saying this, she’s quoting someone else. cc: @ChrisWillx

@David_Cameron @Conservatives You and your governments cemented the now irreversible decline of U.K. as a nation. Well done

20 Years!! Two decades on, I remain incredibly grateful to everyone who helped back in 2005 and to all those who supported me - and the @Conservatives - through the 2010 and 2015 elections, and during our time in office. With your help we changed our party to serve as a modern, compassionate Conservative Party that truly represented our country. Thank you!

@RobinHill85 @elonmusk He would never fix this. Elon is squarely on the side of undercutting US/EU nationals for cheap foreign labor. He complains about low birth rates but is doing everything he can to ensure it continues.

@elonmusk majority of working people can't afford to reproduce more. How would you fix this?

An immediate increase in the birth rate is needed

@elonmusk and almost everything you do ensures this will get worse. fuck off.

@unusual_whales 0 sympathy for that generation on the whole. They inherited all the elements for a longterm prosperous economy, yet decided to impoverish the younger gens to enrich themselves. The reckoning is the realisation is that millennials and gen z are too poor to fund their retirements.

"Boomers ar beinge forced back to work because they can’t afford to retire," per FORTUNE