Kipling and Christ

@MRed78 @SandyofSuffolk Sandy has not been abusive towards you so don’t be nasty to her.

@KiplingChrist @SandyofSuffolk Only reflecting what I see.

The trouble is young people have been told for years "you can be anything you want to be", when you can't. They've seen a handful of people make millions from being an influencer. They've all gone to university thinking it'll be a gateway to a better job when, really, if you're not exceptionally bright, you may as well not have bothered. The majority of people have to settle for run of the mill boring jobs. And young people are resentful. They're waking up to the fact life is hard graft and to get anything you have to work hard, long hours, and forego many things that, until adulthood, were handed to them on a plate. They're lashing out because too many people like teachers and their soft parents haven't prepared them for life in the real world. It's coming home to roost that life isn't all unicorns and gap years. They want what nan and grandad have. Now. Now!! They forget how nan and grandad got it and it wasn't by sitting on their bums on Playstation. Welcome to planet earth young 'uns.

@Tom156065166769 @SandyofSuffolk Clearly they don’t if they demand huge pension increases paid for by their kids. And how about you act your age Tom and stop with the abuse.

@rumamay @SandyofSuffolk I live in a small cramped flat with three kids tell me more about your housing hardship. Consumer goods have become much cheaper over forty years but housing has exploded and it is more relevant to quality of life.

@KiplingChrist @SandyofSuffolk If we did it was a small terrace house ,we couldn't afford to furnish because everything was so much more expensive compared to today.We had to buy or rent cookers from elec or gas board there was no competition to lower prices,TVs very expensive,we rented one after a year.

@Jigger639 @SandyofSuffolk If you increase pensions by inflation then the nominal price of something fifty years ago is irrelevant.

@KiplingChrist @SandyofSuffolk Understand it? I lived through it!

@MRed78 @SandyofSuffolk They also have good views like this. No need for this abuse.

@SandyofSuffolk @KiplingChrist ...and that's why the stupid cunts are all foaming gammon reform supporters that also supported brexit and still think its a good idea even though it is a disaster.

@rumamay @SandyofSuffolk My marginal tax rate is higher than this as it is for most middle class professionals now.

@KiplingChrist @SandyofSuffolk We paid between 30 to 50% tax out of our wages,plus NI and graduated pension what are you paying?

@larryelder England has a history of selling you out? Quite the opposite. What the hell did you do in Suez? Stabbed us in the back. Recently you supported the EU over us on Northern Ireland. I agree with helping you but this sort of nonsense needs to be shut down.

“When this is over, the western part of NATO will never be the same. Spain, England, France and Italy have sold us out, as they too often have a history of doing. Eastern European nations are the heart of NATO. They spend money on defense, know how to fight and love the US. “France particularly deserves fault and blame. From supporting China and Russia at the UN to denying Americans overflight rights, they’re doing what they’ve always done - showing weakness, while cutting deals with terrorists. “(The reason the US has a Marine Corps and Navy is unlike France, we refused to pay a ransom to the Barbary Pirates. France is always happy to cut a deal.) “Wars have unintended consequences as nations show their true colors. “NATO will never be the same, and Western European weakness and acquiescence is the cause.” —@AriFleischer

In 2019, 53-year-old Fred Pepperman was on a Florida beach when a riptide swept his three daughters out to sea. Grace (16), Olivia (20) & Kathryn (24) Hearing their screams of “Dad, help us!” he dove into the raging water with zero hesitation. One by one, he saved all three of his daughters by pulling them back to shore. Moments later, exhausted from his heroic actions, Fred collapsed to the ground & died. His final words to his daughters were “I got you”

Coming here and supporting a foreign native seizing our territory should be grounds for deportation

@LokiJulianus You did not save us. We won the Battle of Britain before you arrived. You entered both world wars when attacked not as a favour. We should help you now as we always do but we don’t owe you.

We didn't ask anyone to join. We just asked for permission to transit across what was presumed to be friendly territory and that was rejected by a country that we literally saved from annihilation in living memory.

@xevekiah Fantastic - deal.

if abortion is ILLEGAL, men abandoning their pregnant partners should be ILLEGAL too. if women can't opt out of PREGNANCY, then men shouldn't be able to opt out of FATHERHOOD either!

Britain has handed out more citizenship grants since 2023 than Japan has issued since 1967. Britain has naturalised 5,781,254 individuals since 1967 (712,207 since 2023) Japan has naturalised 572,201 individuals since 1967 (26,921 since 2023)

@J34JEAN @SandyofSuffolk @mariathom60 Better get supporting some housebuilding then.

@SandyofSuffolk @KiplingChrist @mariathom60 We're not, that's the plan, we will all have to move in with the whinging younger set that are moaning about us, that would serve them right 🤣🤣

The younger generation haven't thought this one through: "Sell your 3 bed house grandma, buy a studio flat and live off the sale proceeds instead of getting a state pension". Then young entitled grandson won't inherit his grandma's half a million pound house but a grotty fifty grand flat that he can't sell but is liable for the huge monthly management fees. And grandma has spent all the sale proceeds of her big house. It's called karma. 😜🤣

@SandyofSuffolk @mariathom60 Yeah just increase it in line with inflation or choose earnings - take your pick of one metric but the highest of three metrics means every year working people have to have tax increases to pay for this and over time it eats up the whole budget.

@KiplingChrist @mariathom60 If pensions aren't increased every year in line with inflation, how are we supposed to pay for our water rates, when they increased last year by 29% or council tax that went up by 6% and groceries that go up weekly?

Former Labour anti-corruption minister Tulip Siddiq was sentenced to 6 years in prison in Bangladesh for corruption. A formal red notice request to Interpol has been made after she failed to respond to a Bangladesh arrest warrant. How will 'international law' Starmer respond?

What we have done is import millions of people who, rather than paying our pensions, will always be a cost to the state. spectator.com/article/emily-…

@mariathom60 @SandyofSuffolk It’s not blaming you. I don’t get this attitude. I am just saying you should not get big increases every year. We can’t afford it and the country has to live within its means. The books can’t be balanced just on the backs of the young.

@KiplingChrist @SandyofSuffolk We are never going to agree, are we, so perhaps we should agree to disagree. I find it disappointing that the younger generation blame the older generation for so much when perhaps your ire should be targeted against the previous Governments.

@mariathom60 @SandyofSuffolk We need to do that as well. It is not an either/or. Pensioner benefits are half of welfare though. Saying you won’t touch it is not serious and the most obvious change is to remove the triple lock.

@KiplingChrist @SandyofSuffolk You could focus your anger against all those unworthy benefit claimants and lobby for the Government to bring public sector pensions in line with private pensions. The old chestnut of not receiving pay in line with private sector is well out of the window.

@mariathom60 @SandyofSuffolk But that applies across both generations. There are always some that have difficulties but we are loading the current generation with huge costs that their parents did not need to pay. This makes it even harder for the young to save.

@KiplingChrist @SandyofSuffolk I am not saying I don’t, what I am saying is that not everyone had the benefit of a decent pension scheme or had the means to save much. You are giving your argument a broad brush approach. It is disingenuous of you.

Putin’s Christianity for Easter.