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🚨The state pension & triple lock is the hot topic of the day — but almost no one is discussing what actually happened and why we’re in this mess. Instead, governments are dividing older and younger generations with perverse gaslighting. Here’s the truth: National Insurance was explicitly sold for generations as a contributory scheme. You paid your “stamps” to build entitlement to your state pension — exactly like road tax was introduced and meant to fund the Road Fund for building and maintaining roads. Both started with a clear promise: pay in for a specific purpose. Then governments quietly broke the ring-fencing/promise. Road hypothecation ended in 1937. NI became mostly pay-as-you-go — today’s workers funding today’s pensioners, with surpluses spent on the priorities of the day (NHS, welfare, whatever suited the government). Why are we here now? • Collapsing birth rates since the 1960s + longer lifespans. • Mass immigration that failed to fix the worker-to-retiree ratio as promised. • Decades of political short-termism: treating the National Insurance Fund like a slush fund instead of properly ring-fencing or investing it for the future. See Singapore for the gold standard. Now the gaslighting ramps up: “No one paid into a pot.” “It’s just a transfer from poorer young to wealthier old.” “The triple lock is unaffordable.” This is classic deception by government. They collected contributions under one set of expectations, spent the money elsewhere, then rebranded the promise when demographics caught up. Pensioners who worked 40-50 years and upheld their side of the intergenerational contract are suddenly the villains. It’s perverse. Instead of admitting “we broke the funding model,” politicians pit generations against each other. The young aren’t subsidising the old out of nowhere — they’re paying into the same broken system their elders did. Honour the existing promises to those who already paid in. Cut the real waste first (illegal migration costs, foreign aid, Net Zero subsidies, welfare bloat). Then reform properly for the future: move towards individual accounts with actual investment and returns — like Singapore’s CPF. Stop the divisive nonsense. Fix the root causes instead of rewriting history and turning the country against itself. Feel free to engage👇🏽 #TripleLock #StatePension

@Bounce_BackLoan Stating the b…. y obvious. Where’s the action. All hot air

Channelling her inner Winston Churchill, Britain's stunning and brave wartime hero Foreign Secretary, Yvette Cooper, holds a virtual meeting of more than 40 countries aimed at reopening the Strait of Hormuz. If her meeting does no good, you may need a wind powered car.

@MarkGriffin59 The problem is the income tax threshold has been frozen. Your state pension swallows most of the allowance and anything over that is taxed. It’s been like that for a long time and both labour & conservatives have not increased it. I had lived in hope that it would be increased

@claire_adams694 @TheGreenParty What abhorrent behaviour.

There is not a single MP in this country that I would ever wish harm on. I may disagree with them or find their politics abhorrent, but intimidation has no place in a democracy. What we are now seeing from this @TheGreenParty candidate turning up at an MP’s office in an intimidating manner towards her and her staff, is completely unacceptable. We have already seen where this road leads with the murders of Jo Cox and David Amess, two MPs with different politics but the same tragic outcome, and it should have been a line that is never crossed again. This behaviour fuels that same dangerous environment and it must stop, and the Green Party should act immediately and stand this individual down.

Davina, Davina, Davina.. as a Mother and a sensible Woman I would have expected better from you. So you think that all the British Women who have supported you and followed you for years are Far Right ?? @ThisisDavina

@A1an_M Still buying Lanchester Dairies, bovaer free, and buying organic yoghurt as I understand that’s all right.

I'm sill boycotting Tesco, Aldi, Morrisons, Arla milk after they trialled that anti cow burp nonsense chemical Bovaer. Did anyone ever find out what the outcome of the trial was? Have the nagging feeling they might just quietly go ahead with it when most people have forgotten...

The idea that any football supporter who attends matches regularly and listens to the ‘banter’ from the crowd is ‘hurt’ by the visit of a potential future Prime Minister is so laughable it almost seemed like a comedy sketch Mr Ashton needs to grow a backbone !

@citizen_Wayne20 @FFS_WhatNow She’s to the left of him. Silly hairstyle and usual green suit.

@FFS_WhatNow Hang on.... Where's the deputy leader? Where's all the Gorton and Denton voters in that very pink crowd?!? The Pakistani crowd from Harehills?? SURELY there isn't a conflict on the horizon in the lovely fluffy Green Party? 😆

Great to see Zack Polanski giving in to his inner clown by putting on the shoes coming out on stage. Inspirational stuff 🥹

I’ve just watch something quite incredible it literally made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up. Watch till the end TRUST me it’s bloody worth it, what a rallying cry from a truly brilliant man. 👏👏👏 WOW!

Has anyone got the call from Woman's Hour yet? Has anyone been asked to contribute to their celebration of Jenni Murray's life and achievements? Will they be talking to anyone on her side? Let us know 👇

PRESS STATEMENT: McCue Jury and Partners on behalf of John Clark, Jonathan Ganesh and Barry Laycock

Comic Relief awarded: £340,000 to Bail for Immigration Detainees £200,000 to Detention Action and £2,254,267 to Refugee Action, which provides "activist packs" on its website. Is it time the British public boycotted Red Nose Day? charlottecgill.co.uk/p/comic-relief…

@CharlotteCGill I know. Decided to give it a miss. How bad will it be?

Oh God, BBC has a show called “Inside the Rage Machine” (about Southport and social media) with Marianna Spring.

Hello, there 👋 Have you heard David Lammy MP and Sarah Sackman MP talking about people stealing bottles of whisky and swiping mobile telephones as examples of people who should not get jury trials? Well. I’d like to tell you a story. 🪡 🧵

@SandyofSuffolk Not the councils imposing but government. I have no intention of using.

From what I've seen on here, people are using their food waste bins that the government and councils are forcing us to have in the most ingenious ways. These food waste bins are now great for storing bird seed, fish food, dog food, fishing bait, small gardening tools. Government and Councils wasting our council tax just so we can have new forms of storage. 🙄

Who would rather go back to weekly bin collections where we put everything in one bin and they then sort it out at the tip? No more streets cluttered up with 3 to 4 bins outside terraced houses.

🚨NEW: A Green party canvasser was seen campaigning outside a polling station early today, violating electoral law [@sirwg202110]

@HowardCCox If you're complaining people aren't telling party members waiting outside the polling station their voter number or how they voted what's new? That's been the case in every election I've ever been to. I would never give those details out.

@johnnyddavidson 🤣🤣

The reason I'm not apologising Dylan, is because that is a different John Davidson. I'm a completely different person. Different age, nationality, live in a different place. I didn't say anything at the Baftas. But you're a legend too champ. x.com/DylanTa4797910…

It is strange that the first police officer on the scene of the 2017 London Bridge terror attack can be sacked for using the word ‘pikey’ in a WhatsApp message, while those in the police and social services who facilitated or colluded in rape gangs have not been held to account.