@poshfrocks @SandyofSuffolk @32a80064 And, I will add, this entire problem is entirely because your generation didn't have enough kids...
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Dominic Whitwham-Biroth
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Dominic Whitwham-Biroth
@Whambo99
Interested in traditional architecture and design, history and conservation. All views expressed are personal. Retweet not endorsement.
Musselburgh, Midlothian เข้าร่วม Eylül 2020
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@poshfrocks @SandyofSuffolk @32a80064 Only three others? What luxury. I'll bet that same house is shared by six today! Stop claiming that the fact you lived in a poorer time entitles you to an ever increasing share of national wealth. I will never get a pension. Why should I be bled white by tax to increase yours?
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Younger generation to pensioners: "Why didn't you save more into a private pension?"
Because most women stayed at home to look after your mums and dads and so didn't earn anything, let alone save anything.
And your granddads were struggling to pay the 14% mortgage rates.
And any 'pin' money your nans earned from little part time jobs was spent spoiling you on days out at the seaside, birthdays and Christmas and slipping your mum and dad a few quid on the sly when they were a bit hard up.
Just so you know.
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@LordCharles111 Because you rely on young people to keep society going when you can't.
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Why should older people pay for your education you ungrateful little cunt?
Reem Ibrahim@ReemAmirIbrahim
Why should young people have to pay for someone else’s retirement? If you live in a million pound house, and you can’t afford to retire, sell the house. Or don’t. I don’t care. You just can’t expect young people to pay for you!
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@jayjay749 @SandyofSuffolk @secondgengamer @32a80064 Oh please. Don't try and tell me that a twin tub (which you can still buy btw) required you to stand and watch it all day. Yes it's more work than a fully auto, but it's not exactly washing by hand. Is it.
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@Whambo99 @SandyofSuffolk @secondgengamer @32a80064 In that 2/3 how many had an automatic machine, and not a twin tub to stand over all day?
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@poshfrocks @SandyofSuffolk @32a80064 So you had a washing machine, and a fridge, and a TV, all before you were 20 (assuming you were born in '46 and got the Tele before '66)... And if you were a wee bit older before you got the TV, ok, you were in a minority.
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@Whambo99 @SandyofSuffolk @32a80064 The oldest? Born in 1946? Don't think so. My mum had a top loader with a mangle attached when we were children in the 50s. We only had a fridge because she ran a B&B/pub. Got a spin drier later. Don't remember watching tv, we listened to the radio. B&W rented Tv in the 60s.
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@SandyofSuffolk @StephanProwell Says the person grumbling because they didn't save enough for retirement...
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@StephanProwell Only because you're frivolous with money.
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@SandyofSuffolk @secondgengamer @32a80064 You were in a minority. 2/3 households had a washing machine by 1970 statista.com/statistics/289…
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@secondgengamer @32a80064 No. But I was born in 1958 and we didn't get a washing machine until the 1970s.
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@DrChrisParry Same applies today, yet we are all expected to save for retirement...
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My parents lived through the extreme depression poverty of the 1930s, a major world war, the Blitz, several epidemics, post-war need and want, not able to own their own house until their mid-30s - and my Mum at 95 isn't whining and whingeing like a loser.
The 'boomers' that you berate lived with 15 - 17 per cent interest rates, Spanish flu, three day weeks, the 1973 oil shock, frequent power shortages, dreadful public transport, endless strikes, high taxes and the bloody Osmonds.
Has Ahmed@HasAhmed_
Reform supporting Boomers after their triple lock is secured, sitting on houses they bought for £24k now worth £950k, final salary pensions, free uni, cheap energy, no cost of living crisis, no major war, no AI threats Meanwhile their grandson: – paying £1.5k rent for a mouldy box room – facing the highest inflation in 50 years – energy bills that look like phone numbers – petrol prices flirting with “sell a kidney” territory – competing with AI for entry-level jobs – told to “just save harder” while avocado toast costs £6
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@SandyofSuffolk @32a80064 Are you insane? Boomers didn't have washing machines and fridges! Boomers weren't born before WW2. The oldest boomers will have got washing machines, fridges and TVs when they were teenagers!
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@32a80064 You know boomers didn't have washing machines, fridges, freezers, etc so had to go shopping every day and wash everything by hand in the sink. Please tell me you know that.
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@RDH1156 @Tinebobagain He blocked me, guess he doesn't like being shown up as whinger 🤣
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Your generation are voting for the fucking greens.
Stop blaming pensioners who have CONSISTENTLY voted against mass immigration and get your fucking peers in line.
I’m sick of YOUR shit.
Hugh Anthony@TheHughAnthony
I am sick to death of older people being condescending towards the younger generation. I know a lot of young native British people that have to work multiple jobs just to afford rent because of the country we have been left with from past generations mistakes. We are struggling
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@paddzzz @MadelaineLucyH Wow. So, did you actually read what I wrote? The part where I said a shared British identity has existed for almost 1000 years before the UK. So yeah, him calling himself king of Britain and folklore are pretty solid evidence of a British identity existing at the time.
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@Whambo99 @MadelaineLucyH Those are two very different things. You also refute your earlier point about Aethelstan being the 1st king of Britain. No historian calls him king of Britain.
Arthur is a Welsh (Celtic) legend, that probably didn't exist, so you're using a folktale as evidence now?
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1. Wrong! Britain dates to the early 1700s. And before that, the CoE only dates to the mid 1500s.
2. Wrong! It is highly symbolic. The last monarch to wield any substantial weight over the Church of England or just religions in general was George IV.
3. Wrong! There isn’t a tradition of the monarch giving a speech on Easter Friday. He attended the Maundy service, which is the tradition, in Wales.
Why are “British nationalists” always so American?
Ben Graham@BenGrahamUK
Britain has been a Christian nation for over 1,400 years. The title Defender of the Faith isn’t symbolic, it carries weight. Yet this Easter, there’s silence. To overlook the faith of the nation at its most sacred time is a real bad look.
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@RuggerHugger70 @Tinebobagain If you want to go back to what it was sold as we could afford it. But I don't think you want a pension of about £20 a week and a 1940s standard of living, do you. And that's before we get to the fact that when it was 'sold' pretty much all healthcare was just palliative.
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@Whambo99 @Tinebobagain It was sold as the cradle to grave security. The social contract. That we’d all be looked after in our old age. Instead of ring fencing the money, or making private pensions mandatory, the governments wasted the money.
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Incorrect. It was sold to the British people as a contributory pension.
‘You pay into the pot (the system) and when you retire, you will have an income to live on’
You can’t move the goalposts, now it’s inconvenient for you.
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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@paddzzz @MadelaineLucyH If you want to go further back King Arthur was also a mythical 'King of Britain'. The idea that the national identity of the British people didn't exist until 1707 is wrong. Its like saying the concept of India didn't exist until 1947 because there wasn't a single Indian state
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@paddzzz @MadelaineLucyH He literally called himself 'King of all Britain'... Just Google it.
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@Tinebobagain Sorry, how is not increasing the state pension in real terms every year making people 'starve to death on retirement'? If you actually had a leg to stand on you wouldn't need to resort to absurd hyperbole.
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@EiratheIntern Allegiance does not mean compliance. That is why we have two different words. I have no allegiance to a foreign country, even though I am bound by (and protected by) their laws when I am there. If I attacked their country, they couldn't accuse me of treason.
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She's literally right in this argument. I am subject to the local jurisdiction of wherever I travel, regardless of citizenship. And that confers certain obligations ergo allegiance as understood by the administration's argument. Domicile status doesn't affect any of that!
End Wokeness@EndWokeness
Justice KBJ: "If I steal a wallet in Japan, I am subject to Japanese laws….. in a sense, it's allegiance." Her case for birthright citizenship:
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@jbceltic7604 @Allybig62 @McivorDrew Most of the planters were Scots. But don't let the truth get in the way of your grievance.
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@Allybig62 @McivorDrew She hates England, they invaded her country.🙄🇮🇪
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