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@nobdy_imp
International small businessman, small time investor, living and working in developing SE Asia. Spark. Former Corporate IT Security Developer.
This is the man that helped create the Climate Change Act that has resulted in the UK closing its fertiliser plants. Now he's worried about a lack of fertiliser. These people should be in prison.
'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
🚨 Migration Costs – Follow Up (The Bits We Missed) Thanks for the strong engagement on the last post — lots of thoughtful replies. Here are the extra pieces that matter but are harder to put neat numbers on. 1. Remittances Money earned and taxed in the UK but sent straight out of the country: £9–10 billion a year total (World Bank / Migration Observatory). A big chunk goes to India, Pakistan, Nigeria — exactly the top nationalities in the post-2021 wave. (See image below). That’s extra £2–4bn+ a year from the recent surge alone that never recirculates here. 2. Universal Credit pressures UC now costs £90–100bn a year. Foreign nationals are ~16% of claimants (up sharply). Using the same nationality/route patterns as Child Benefit, the extra annual cost from the post-2021 legacy stock is likely £5–8bn (in-work top-ups, housing, child and disability elements all skew higher). 3. Policing, social services & social decay (harder to quantify) - Grooming gangs: The 2025 Casey National Audit confirmed massive data failures (ethnicity not recorded in two-thirds of cases) but showed clear over-representation of Pakistani-heritage men in the worst local inquiries (Rotherham, Rochdale, Greater Manchester, etc.). - Extra policing, social care, translation services and community tensions add hundreds of millions more every year — costs that fall on the same taxpayers whose NI contributions are meant to fund pensions and the NHS. These aren’t “racist” observations — they’re official findings and raw government data the public is rarely shown in one place. The bigger picture All of this compounds the £10–15bn+ direct annual hit I showed earlier. The post-2021 surge wasn’t just bigger — it was structurally different: more family-forming routes, higher dependency, lower recirculation. Governments sold us the story that “migration fixes the ageing population and pays for pensions.” Their own numbers show the opposite for this particular wave. Instead of a net positive, we got extra pressure on the NI Fund, higher welfare spending, money leaving the country, and real social costs that are difficult to measure but impossible to ignore. Honour the promises to those who already paid in. Fix the incentives and the selection system. Stop the deception. What other hidden or hard-to-quantify costs have you seen? Drop them below — this conversation is important. #MigrationCosts #DeceptionByGovernment
I’m 32 years old and I want to change the state pension. With the triple lock, based on historical growth (4.5%) when I reach my pension age. The state pension will be £30,100 a year. This would account for £512bn a year. The current government budget is 1.2Trn. This would be 3x the current NHS budget. The triple lock is unsustainable. Now the debate, no one is saying that pensioners shouldn’t recieve support. That goes without saying. But there shouldn’t be a non-means tested, non contribution based pension which gives everyone blanket support. Especially when you consider 1 in 4 of over 60 years are asset millionaires. My view is, we need to have a means tested only state pension. Which is reassessed every 3 years. There is no “pot” people pay into, national insurance is just a tax - there is no ring fenced fund for a state pension. It comes directly from taxation ever annum. Without changes like this, young people will suffer while older people - who receive their pension and political protection because they actively vote - will continue to have a glorious quality of life.
We do need to build more houses, but blaming house price inflation on baby boomers is largely missing the point. The reason house prices have increased more than salaries is lower interest rates. Owning a home is pretty much as affordable as it’s been for the last 50 years. It’s getting on the ladder that’s tough. Hence Kemi’s bang on commitment to scrap Stamp Duty on your own home.
your grandparents bought a house at 3.5x salary and graduated debt-free. you graduate £50k in debt into a housing market at 7.5x salary. they did not cheat. somebody changed the system. nobody has been held to account.
Are pensioners are now better off than working-age people? @JCribbEcon describes how pensioners' incomes have changed over time in our recent podcast. 🎧️ Listen here: ifs.org.uk/articles/are-p…
The Tories should never have sold off Britain’s C130Js to save a few quid. The Americans continue to use them. 👇 Hiding in the mountains, the injured US airman had only a pistol for protection. telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
Boomers really hate data, huh
One of the reasons you often find elderly people, on their own, in a large house is stamp duty. If they downsize they get clobbered for tax so it isn't economically viable. Abolish stamp duty on downsizers and we will see a huge shift in the market. And HMRC get Tax on the resale
The state pension is a social security benefit funded by today’s working population. This is a fact, whether you like it or not.
For the last ~15 years since I left uni, I’ve been a consistent top 1% (at the start) to top 0.1% taxpayer (last few years). I’m not rich, though. We live modestly. We save. We invest. We are sensible. But I work hard. Really hard. Most weekends I’m writing strategic go to market plan, white papers for new products, attending ExCo calls, or sending data to our major stakeholders. I’m also the only real income in our household for the last few years. My wife runs her own small company and they do quite well for their size - they paid our kids school fees for a few years, sure it’s up and down, as any new endeavour tends to be - but she also gets absolutely hosed by Reeves for any success she can manifest. And I’m sick to the back teeth of the way the economy treats risk-takers and entrepreneurial people, and the general way it is configured. It’s all wrong. I’ve absolutely had enough. The social contract is totally and utterly broken. The state is eating the economy; it rewards indolence and kills ambition. I’ve left the country before for work opportunities and better prospects, so I’m not averse to the idea. Though I don’t really in my heart of hearts want to and I suspect this is what the state is betting on more broadly. This time around, I have remained in Britain so far because: it’s our home, our families are here, our friends are here, we bought a big pile in Surrey to put down roots after a lot of travel, our kids are settled in school, and our parents are in their twilight years. It’s not easy to just up roots like it was in the past. But it is inescapable that the country is structurally fucked. In every conceivable way. You can’t build. You can’t keep what you make. There’s very little to zero return on your taxable income and efforts. Long term, the delta between state spending and borrowing and its productivity and wages/tax receipts is moving in an exponential K-shape. The pension system is geared against people like me who put in, and geared towards a critical mass of indolents - both domestic and imported - plus a big proportion of boomers who have never contributed what I have. And in my pond, I’m not even a big fish. 16,500 of us have already voted with our feet. I’m just absolutely done paying for welfare socialism and Islamist scope creep. I see the Greens waiting. Reform is the main alternative to the traditional parties and they’re a total joke. Despite their membership numbers and THE EXCELLENT @RupertLowe10 - I am unconvinced Restore will ever be given a fair hearing by the mainstream media. Their electoral cut-through is likely to suffer as a result. The SDP led by the brilliant Clouston still have no cut-through. It’s collectively all so disappointing. I will continue to support both parties as they are the only patriots left. My friends - many of them - are out already, and many more are about to be. It’s 90% of what we discuss when we meet. Tonight I made a decision. I’m out. Do what is best for your family now. No one you know in your day-to-day life is remotely aware of what’s coming. It will be swift and it will be unforgiving. No one is coming to save you. Good luck. Godspeed. ✌️ (Red pilled for years, radicalised by @trevgoes4th and @db_fink)
