Ian Tasker

@chicfryrice Of course not and I have never called anybody that. I get all the problems but stoking inter-generational conflict is not good for anybody. Do you agree?

@IanTasker I don’t like whomever calls me entitled, spoiled, and lazy. Do you like people who call you that?

Every BOOMER with this take should look up the job they had in their 20s. Find the median pay for that job NOW. If you went to college make sure to include the cost of student loan repayments NOW. Include the cost of insurance NOW. Then look up the EXACT SAME first house you bought and let me know if you can buy it NOW. OTHERWISE STFU ABOUT THE DISCUSSION

@Ergoat @chicfryrice What do you mean?

@IanTasker @chicfryrice No, but your grandparents on the other hand...

@chicfryrice Do you really hate your parents and grandparents that much?

@IanTasker You can go through the comments then figure out “why so much hate”

@PadgeMc1 No

Are we all in agreement that the moon landing of 1969 was staged ?

@iAmJoshHunt Exempt pensioners from Stamp Duty to make it worthwhile to downsize as basically at the moment it is not worth it

The retirement plan for an entire generation was 'my house will fund it.' Downsize, release equity, live off the difference. But that only works if the next generation can afford to buy at the prices you need to sell at. They can't. And that gap is going to define the next decade of British politics.

@jessgill03 And vice versa it seems

It’s insane how little compassion so many boomers have for young people.

@andrew10612 @annaroseridgway Not quite the same - and you know it

@IanTasker @annaroseridgway Hello I have £1 million "tied up" in supercars and gold bars please give me state benefits

25% of pensioners are millionaires. 55% of welfare spending goes on pensioners. Why don’t we: 1) means test the state pension, millionaires don’t need benefits. 2) increase the amount we give to the pensioners who need it the most. 3) stop the unsustainable triple lock.

@justaphag6 @CreativeDeduct But if they downsize they will be purchasing the very properties that younger people have to buy because they can’t afford the more expensive properties retired people live in.

@CreativeDeduct They should sell the expensive property. Downsize. Live within their means. Property is an investment, it’s time to cash in on that pot of money that’s been growing. Taking money from the state whilst you could rearrange your assets is greedy as fuckkkk

Remember that you could cut welfare spending ENTIRELY by 15% if you didn’t give pensions to millionaires.

@annaroseridgway With most of that “million” tied up in the value of their property so not accessible for day-to-day spending. ie not really millionaires at all

One in four British pensioners is now a millionaire: telegraph.co.uk/money/pensions… 55% Social Security expenditure goes to pensioners: gov.uk/government/pub…

@ukboomers Absolutely no way that cost £28,000 in 1982. We bought our first home - a tiny one-bedroom flat in Ealing for £27,500 that same year

Our little home. Bought in 1982 for £28,000. Just a modest family home in Surrey with a bit of a garden. I remember picking up extra shifts at the post office that summer to save for the deposit. We were so young. Apparently it's worth £1.5 million now but to us it's just home. 🏡

@DominicMcGregor You don’t seem to have factored in 35 more years of economic growth, rising wages and inflation before you reach pensionable age into your calculations

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.

@Rod__Mason I am getting really, really sick of these kinds of moronic posts - anybody else?

Why are we meant to be impressed now that astronauts are orbiting the moon in 2026, when we’ve always been told men actually walked on the moon back in 1969?

@DraperOr Not all old people are rich, not all young people are poor. Stop with this simplistic posturing

The richest generation in history (and that there will ever be) is telling us how poor they are again.

@tonyblackburn This mission is to test out the spacecraft and if it all goes well they will have a mission to land possibly next year

I remember watching the first man on the moon landing some 50years ago which was very exciting as this new mission is. Can anyone tell me why it is that they are not actually going to land on the moon but circle round it. It’s not a criticism I’m just interested to know why they are not actually going to land on the moon.

@ShakeLS April Fools jokes used to be clever and witty not just total made-up void of humour nastiness like this

Prince William, the Prince of Wales is about to divorce his wife of 15 years, Kate Middleton, the Princess of Wales. The palace announcement of the separation and eventually divorce is expected later today. According to the press briefings the couple have agreed on shared custody. The details would be kept private. They have been living apart for almost 4 years now. The Princess will retain a smaller title and will lose her HRH. It's been vastly known for awhile that the Prince of Wales has been living with his girlfriend of over 7 years Rose Hamburg, who lives near by him. She consoled his breaking heart after the collapse of his marriage. The Princess of Wales is expected to walk out with 15 million, a residence and her clothes that nobody wants to keep. For now , we are aware that the children are staying with their mother and it's not confirmed if they will attend Easter Sunday with the rest of the 3 remaining working Royals, 4 with the Duke of Kent if he is still alive by then. On another update Carole Middleton has entered the Priory clinic in London for a rejuvenation month old spa, aka rehab from Alcohol. The Prince of Wales is spending time with Camilla Parker Bowles too, figuring out how to find a way to blame all this on Meghan and Diana the paranoid Princess. Stay tuned for more updates through the day.

@gig_itty_gig @HarveyVivi49121 @KHarveyProctor @scott_mills @BBC So in your view there is never any need for a case to ever go to trial if there is any “evidence”? Just assume guilt. Do you not understand the concept of justice?

@HarveyVivi49121 @KHarveyProctor @scott_mills @BBC Police said evidence was passed the CPS but was deemed insufficient evidence for a realistic chance if a prosecution…that is not the same as no evidence…

I am deeply concerned by the @scott_mills story, following his sacking by @BBC. Mills was allegedly investigated by the Metropolitan Police, with a file handed to the CPS who decided there was insufficient evidence to prosecute. If an individual can be investigated, cleared of prosecution due to insufficient evidence, & still face professional ruin, then we are entering dangerous territory. Institutions must be very careful not to substitute due process with reputational expediency. Justice cannot operate on suspicion alone, nor can fairness be preserved if allegations—untested in a court of law—are treated as proof. We must ask ourselves: are we upholding justice, or quietly dismantling it?

@Bunny_ngl Bosch

Can someone please recommend a tv series that's actually addictive, the kind that makes people stay up all night and finish season one in a sitting???????

@WorkElizab Yes, I was 13 and obsessed with the Apollo project

Did you watch it?

@klara_sjo You mean the correct prononciation? Adi Dassler was the company founder

Just learned some British people pronounce adidas as addy-dass