@MarkTodd_pol @10to15percent You obviously have no idea what you’re talking about.
The price has gone up due to vastly reduced volume of letters in the network and having to keep the same amount of staff for delivery commitments.
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Jason Judge 🏴🇬🇧
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@10to15percent How much has it cost the public who is the tax payer bar the offshore oligarchs
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Congrats to the Lib Dems & Tories for privatising Royal Mail leading to first class stamp price rising from 60p (2013) to £1.80 today.
A price rise of 200% in 13 years.
Privatisation of essentials really pays for shareholders & senior managers not the public.
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@10to15percent @MarkTodd_pol I’ll answer zero and that includes a number of years the company made loses. The state however gain considerably due to it being one of the largest employers in the country.
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@MarkTodd_pol How much has the Royal Mail cost the tax payer in the last 13 years?
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@MarkTodd_pol Nothing to do with vastly lower volume of letters going into the network and having to keep the same amount of posties for delivery commitment then.
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@kokeshimum Inflation that’s why. Governments printing shed ton loads of money.
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Why the fuck should my son have to work 55 plus hours a week when I didn’t and neither did his grandparents or great grandparents ffs.
Stop fucking pretending that boomers and Gen X was out there working 80 hour weeks. We fucking weren’t.
Rush@exRAF_Al
Why does Gen Z feel incapable of getting a second job, or part-time work? If he only has one job, he can work fifteen hours extra a week stacking shelves and save that for a house - and stop blaming other people for his inactivity.
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@GaytriotGannon @PensionsMonkey I am not against means testing across the board. However for pensions this would save 75% of those pensions but would cost to employ many people to administer this. Any savings I would want to go to top up the pensions of others as nobody can live on around £800 a month.
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@jjay1310 @PensionsMonkey "An 80 year old pensioner has more need for help than and fit 40 year old."
Not if they're a millionaire. Hence means-testing the state pension. :)
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@GaytriotGannon @PensionsMonkey I haven’t said any of those things have I?
I’ll answer each question for you.
No. Agreed it should be on need. An 80 year old pensioner has more need for help than and fit 40 year old.
A working mum would get universal credit if her salary was below a certain amount.
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@jjay1310 @PensionsMonkey Do you think that disabled people and the working poor are not as deserving of benefits as pensioners, simply because they're younger? Surely help should be based on need, rather than age. Why should rich pensioners get the state pension, but a working mother should get nothing?
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@GaytriotGannon @PensionsMonkey A 40 year old is more capable of working and therefore needs less help than an 80 year old pensioner is the same as your point surely.
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@jjay1310 @PensionsMonkey "It's okay for pensioners to get benefits because they're older"
No, I'm sorry, but help should be based on need, not age
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@GaytriotGannon @PensionsMonkey Younger people are more able to make up the difference than a pensioner both physically and have more time to do so.
This rise equates to just over £58 a month how much has your household bills and food etc increased this year?
This increase isn’t making them better off
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@jjay1310 @PensionsMonkey All I'm saying is if other benefits can be frozen, why not the state pension? If other benefits can be means-tested, why not the state pension? I'm sick of the double standard!
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@GaytriotGannon @PensionsMonkey Ok so one response you say it should be frozen yet the next when doing so was punishing the vulnerable for something else.
I guess you don’t see elderly pensioners just on basic pension and having to still pay rent as vulnerable. Not all pensioners managed to buy house etc
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@jjay1310 @PensionsMonkey It was about punishing the vulnerable because they didn't vote Tory. You can work and get benefits. Many do. Those who don't work often can't due to disability. Pensioners had decades to responsibly save into a private pension, whereas disabled people don't choose to be disabled.
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@GaytriotGannon @PensionsMonkey The whole point about freezing other benefits is to try and encourage more people into work, you can’t expect elderly to go and work to make up the difference.
I can see merit in means testing to some degree, however 25% is taxed on the richest pensioners anyway
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@jjay1310 @PensionsMonkey The state pension should be frozen like other benefits were from 2016 to 2019. It should also be means-tested.
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@Rab_Dickson1 My parents bought their house and it’s probable worth a quarter of that. Just as well they did given the amount they get in state pension now and have no rent to pay.
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@DOWybourne13 @sophielouisecc I suspect retirement age will be increased at some point.
I would say though that even if this is done it wouldn’t decrease the NI employees or employers pay.
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@jjay1310 @sophielouisecc The retirement age was set at 65 in 1948. Back then, life expectancy was about 66.
Now life expectancy is 82.
Obviously, the retirement age could go up a lot more.
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Pensioners are set to receive a £525 boost
People on benefits with more than 2 children will get an average of a £6000 boost
Why are we mad at the pensioners?
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@DOWybourne13 @sophielouisecc They have already increased the pension age to 67.
Full state pension equates to around 800 a month each which isn’t enough to feed and pay basic household bills let alone house someone that didn’t buy a property.
The only feasible other reduction would be to means test.
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@jjay1310 @sophielouisecc We need to reduce the cost, somehow.
This could be done by some combination of:
--reducing the pension
--increasing the retirement age
--encouraging younger, able pensioners to stay in work longer
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@DOWybourne13 @sophielouisecc Ok humour me what do you think should happen with pensions then?
Bearing in mind I’m assuming you will hopefully receive one yourself in the future.
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@jjay1310 @sophielouisecc Whether it's paid by employers or employees, or from VAT or corporation tax or fuel duty, is really a red herring.
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@DOWybourne13 @sophielouisecc I have already pointed out that the NI received is more than the pensions cost. More of the share is paid for by the employers. So it’s not just workers who pay for it.
The increase equates to about £58 a month each how much has your council tax, water rates and bills gone up?
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@jjay1310 @sophielouisecc Collectint that for 25 odd years is just too much. It's a lot more than pensioners were paid 1-2 generations ago, plus they didn't live as long to collect it, plus they had more kids to pay for it.
Expecting workers to put up with this indefinitely is fantastical.
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@HasAhmed_ @LBC You mean the 4.8% pay rise that could be up to £575 a year and just over £11 a month?
How much has your council tax and water gone up this year?
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Since you’re the DWP expert @LBC relies on, can you explain where this £6,000 figure comes from? Because it doesn’t exist.
What does exist is a 4.8% state pension rise as of this month, going to many wealthier boomers living in Marbella than the working class people in genuine need who you’re criticising.
Strange how your outrage only ever points one way.
Sophie Corcoran@sophielouisecc
Many of us are at work today on a bank holiday, knowing full well that people on benefits have just got a bonus of £6000. I would have to work around 500 hours to get an extra 6k - they don’t have to do anything Why do we even bother
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@Heccles94 Why are they getting richer? Nothing to do with inflation right?
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@DOWybourne13 @sophielouisecc I fail to see that paying someone after 50 years of work £800c a month as a ‘fantastical promise’ to be honest with you.
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@jjay1310 @sophielouisecc It's not younger people's fault either. You can't reasonably ask them to underwrite a fantastical promise made to you by politicians in the 70s.
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@DOWybourne13 @sophielouisecc I know governments have effectively moved NI receipts to general taxation to borrow from Peter to pay Paul. That is not the boomers fault that is governments.
The reason NI was introduced was to pay for state pensions and for SSP and in the whole it does that.
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@jjay1310 @sophielouisecc In practice, your NI went into general taxation. What you paid for was the pensions of your parents' generation.
But they had less generous pensions, and more kids to pay for them, and they died younger. That's why boomer gen is taking out more than it put in.
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