@Dame__Jane Absolutely, but to play devil's advocate life has also become far more complex, everything is online only and contract everything, clothes are only 1 season because they are made poorly etc etc etc
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Banny
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When ex husband and I went house shopping in the 80s we had to have a 20% deposit and interest was around 21%, from memory.
We rarely ate out - fish and chips once a month maybe. No ‘new clothes for a new season’. No tech. Just a small telly. No sky. No avocado (I was yet to become addicted to that green goodness hahah) we had 2nd hand furniture from our parents. Took packed lunches to work. Rented a washing machine. Saved for treats - no credit card or after pay.
I don’t know that any of us have really had it easy? But I do hate it when people slag off boomers as having had it easier than the rest - cos their generation had their own dramas to contend with 🤷♀️
Jen k 🇬🇧🏴@Jenny_1884
When I married in 1981 we both worked & most of our salary went on paying the mortgage as the interest rate was 15% at the time. Everything we owned was 2nd hand & we never went out for meals as we couldn’t afford to. We rented our TV Went to the launderette every weekend as had no washing machine. Only had new clothes at Xmas & birthdays as presents. We went without until we could save enough to pay for something. It’s always been hard whether you are young or old. So those out there that think we had it easy we didn’t. Our governments are to blame, not the old.
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@gaylesian And the youngsters are having a fit about paying a pensioner £100 a week but are happy to pay a migrant with 4 wives and endless children thousands a week
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Heard the greatest statement the other day On proposed pension age change to 75, For decades Government told us they need mass immigration to pay our pensions, now we find pensioners will need to work til 75 to pay for mass immigration. Just think about it.
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All western and white countries are having mass muslim migration forced upon them against their will. This will lead to war as the cultures are incompatible. If you cannot see this then you are asleep and there is no hope for you. How are all of us going to fix this ?
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I bought my first home in the early 90s, the mortgage absorbed half of my salary. I had a number of young children, and part-time jobs. I couldn’t afford a car big enough to put pushchairs in. What I didn’t do was sneer about the generation before me. They had also grafted.
Shiv Malik@shivmalik
Dear boomers, can you afford to buy the house you live in currently with the wage you used to earn before you retired? If you can’t, then that’s the whole housing problem in a nutshell. It really is that simple to understand.
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@BritishBastardX Don't forget if the greens get in the country will be bankrupt
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In the 2029 we have 2 possible scenarios.
The Greens win & Britain will become a Trans-Socialist, Islamo-Communist country.
Or
Restore Britain win & Britain has a real chance of survival, our people will no longer be the minority in any area, we will have a Britain first approach to every descision & we can finally have hope that we will leave behind the country that we all miss and love dearly to our children & grandchildren.
Its pretty simple, its not a matter of left & right as we knew it before...
Its Good Vs Evil.
Make your vote count, remember who we are fighting for 🇬🇧.
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@ManOfKent15 Or to distract us from all the other crap going on, all the time we are arguing with each other we are not focusing on them
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I wonder how much of this antagonism towards pensioners is to force them to downsize their housing so that larger houses are then available to convert into HMOs for the newcomers?
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@orlaminihane It's worse than that Orla, I live on a council estate in Canterbury and there are a group of men who buy up every available house and turn it into unregistered HMOs through a loophole, residents are desperate to get out of the city
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As a little Easter Treat - I thought i’d give you a list of HMOs in Canterbury. 1 town in Kent !! Minimum of 4 people per property - All paid for by YOU !!!! canterbury.gov.uk/sites/default/…
Absolutely bloody shocking! Most of the UK are oblivious to how bad this situation is! @RestoreBritain_ @TheFeralWitchy
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London is completely safe people…
Within Khans walking armoury, bomb proof Range Rover, three security details and heavily guarded residence.
Someone fire this liar! Khan and Starmer accepting the Kings shilling!
Grifty@TheGriftReport
Armed police guarding Sadiq Khan left a holdall full of guns on the kerb outside his Clapham family home. Inside: an MP5 submachine gun, Glock 17 pistol with live ammo, and a 50,000-volt Taser. A pregnant woman spotted the suspicious bag, kicked it because it felt heavy, and her partner took it home, only to discover it was packed with Met Police firearms. Five armed officers have been suspended from frontline duties while the Met launches a full internal investigation. Now just imagine if this fell into the wrong hands? In LONDON of all places!
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@furbabygirl Now imagine how awful it's going to be when the generation of renters gets to pension age because state pension doesn't pay extra for rent or council tax like UC does, £1000 a month to pay for everything. A generation of homeless pensioners
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Uk pensioners get less than £13k a year state pension.
We don’t even come in the top 10 of other European country’s state pensions but according to the left we still get too much.
Especially if we’ve made provisions with a private pension which they’ve not.
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A myopic analysis. The state pension was contributory (see clip), and very gradually and quietly, over time, that situation changed. Adair Turner’s 2002 tome even refers to the state pension as “an entitlement”. The people were actively told that if you built up a NIC record, you will get the appropriate state pension, but the people were not told that changed, because the change was quietly buried over time within acts of parliament and not referred to. Did government not learn from WASPI? At least when women had their state pension age changed, it was widely promulgated. This though, changed because the government wanted you to think that in the future that your state pension would be a privilege, and not an entitlement. Because then of course, the state can tell you that you don’t get one, and it then has a tighter hold over you. The state did not tell you when it slowly started to change it from being a contributory scheme to a non-contributory scheme, because it wanted the best of both worlds. It knew, when it started to change things, but all hell would break loose if people realised the state pension was going to be something to be a carrot and stick, and not an entitlement.
Miriam Cates@miriam_cates
No one has ‘paid into’ the state pension. NI payments are spent by the government of the day, not put into a pot with your name on. Using these terms just perpetuates the myth that the state pension is a contributory scheme. It isn’t. It’s a non-means tested universal benefit paid for by current taxpayers.
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@DrHoenderkamp We have come to the point where these morons think that if they say it it must be true
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I'm tired of hearing ' you don't pay in to' the state pension because if that's true, why do they assess your NI contributing years and then decide how much you get depending on contributions?
(PS, I know it isn't a pot - but you do pay in to get it)
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@DeBarsham Lee should not make assumptions, assumptions make an ass out of you
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Lee doesn’t think retired people should enjoy a quality of life after 65 despite having worked for 50 years to earn it.
There are more things in life than paying one’s utility bills, Lee.
Only youngsters are so completely divorced from reality.🤦♂️
Lee Smith@LeeSmith8p
@DeBarsham @ReemAmirIbrahim Assuming you have paid off your mortgage, which a lot of people 65+ have done, what are you spending your money on apart from utilities, which are nowhere near £1K a month?
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Esther Rantzen says MPs need to "invoke the Parliament Acts" and force an identical bill, with all its flaws, on to the statute books. They're looking for 200 MPs willing to do that to their most vulnerable constituents. A 🧵on their plan 1/
news.sky.com/story/how-fox-…
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🚨DICTATORIAL POWER GRAB EXPOSED: UK SPEAKER CALLS FOR TOTAL MISINFORMATION BAN AND URGES GOVERNMENT TO CENSOR SOCIAL MEDIA WORLDWIDE! 💬🚫
This Clip Of Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle Talking About Social Media Is Quite Revealing And What He Is Suggesting Is Extremely Authoritarian And Orwellian 🤨
In this eye-opening interview, Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle starts by correctly stating that threats, incitement to riots, and suggestions to attack others have no place online.
However, he quickly escalates into dangerous territory by lumping in "misinformation" and declaring that the fact is, misinformation is dangerous and no misinformation should be allowed on any social media platform.
He issues a direct warning to nations like the US, insisting it does not matter what country you are in because misinformation is dangerous.
Hoyle stresses that everything posted must be factual and correct, or else the government needs to think long and hard about new laws and what bill it will push through Parliament to control social media.
This broad call for a blanket ban on anything deemed "misinformation" reeks of Orwellian censorship, handing authorities the power to decide truth while silencing dissent.
Free speech is once again under threat.
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@NormanBrennan Anarchy will reign supreme, why? Because Labour are all activists who love to disrupt the status quo but have no idea how to deal with the consequences
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BREAKING NEWS; Looting & Mayhem in Clapham by Hundreds of kids & Yoots Forces many shops to close; all should be Videoed Identified & Nicked & Brought into police stations all over London; Interviewed in front of their parents & schools informed; OR? Is now going to be a TREND?👇🤷♂️
Tom Harwood@tomhfh
The scenes of wanton lawlessness by hundreds of teenagers in Clapham both on Saturday and today highlight a lot of people who think there are zero consequences to their actions. Some lightning fast prosecutions would put a stop to this. There should be arrests tonight.
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Pleasure to welcome @AH_AlSharaa to @UKParliament this morning, on his first official visit to the UK.
We’re committed to working with the Syrian Government to support an inclusive political transition and a secure, prosperous future for all Syrians.
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@UKinJerusalem Without any deterring effect? Like letting paedophilia run rampant in the UK with many walking away without sentences
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Joint statement by 🇩🇪, 🇫🇷 , 🇮🇹 & 🇬🇧 on Israel's Death Penalty Bill.
“The death penalty is an inhumane and degrading form of punishment without any deterring effect. This is why we oppose the death penalty, whatever the circumstances around the world.”
🔗 gov.uk/government/new…
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@YvetteCooperMP You might oppose it but most people agree with it for the sickest criminals
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My statement with France, Germany and Italy on our united opposition to Israel’s death penalty law.
The death penalty is wrong and we oppose it around the world.
gov.uk/government/new…
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