@RachelReevesMP Whilst pushing most working families a little closer to it!!!
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Gilb
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Today we are lifting 450,000 children out of poverty with the end of the two-child limit.
This Labour Government is achieving the biggest reduction in child poverty over a Parliament since records began.
Change promised. Change delivered.
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@lukerobertblack If you’re in. Smart wharf you don’t have any family, friends or aspirations anyway. So move away it will do you good!!
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Ah yes - Sandy. A young and aspirational graduate, say, with a job at the Barclays in Canary Wharf, should definitely move a 3-hour commute away from London - to a place where they have no friends, no family and no support network.
Sandy Tregent@SandyofSuffolk
You can buy a nice little house like this in Suffolk with a 5% deposit of £6,000. Nationwide, Barclays and others are offering good deals for first time buyers with only a 5% deposit. But then you'd have to forego your gap year in the Far East and Antipodes or your fancy wedding. Poor you. Boo hoo. 🤣
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More than 12 million pensioners will see their state pension rise 4.8% today under the triple lock.
But the government has been accused of doing too little for working-age households so is it time to scrap the triple lock?
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@rosie_eats @lindapeter41408 And as a teacher, is this not possible?!!! I know many teachers that have a house, a car and a a lot of time off! Have you considered private tuition ??
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@lindapeter41408 I’m not in a union - I dislike the NEU and I wouldn’t strike. I just want to have the same standards of life as the generation before me. Own a home, have children, afford to run a car, etc!
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@albieamankona No one will ever know how much the foreigners ratio will because they’ve never fucking paid in..
Anybody who thinks that if they stop state pension, the government will reduce NI is more bat shit crazy than this daft twat
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@kokeshimum @AliceSLondon With maths like that I’m getting coat and leaving. 😂
A few would tbf… most apprentices plumbers, sparkies, brickies, good engineers. Most teachers just out of uni, nurses the list goes on.
You don’t have to buy a house at 21. Even in 2000 that wasn’t common more like 25
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@Gilb0803 @AliceSLondon 3 times not 4.
But can you tell me what 21 year olds are earning £40k today ffs.
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@kokeshimum @AliceSLondon So that’s 4 years wages to buy the pad.
Not much different to spending £160k now is it…..🤷♂️
I really don’t see the problem, if people aren’t willing to go with outfit what they want, they don’t want it enough
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@AliceSLondon I bought a gorgeous two bedroom with en suite Victorian cottage with a drive and little garden in 1993 for £27k at 21 years old. 🙄
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@kokeshimum 2 full time workers today surly earn north of £50k-£60k. A £200k mortgage is going to cost you about £1k a month roughly…
Why can’t these people afford a house?
Oh yes, the BMW, Sky tv, two weeks all inclusive, nights out, designer clothes
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@jessalinecaine Can someone explain to me which young person can’t afford a home????
Everyone’s kids who I know seem to be able to love out when ready 🤷♂️
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Quite a revealing mindset this.
When young people can’t afford housing, the answer is never that the market is broken.
It’s always that they should have lived smaller, duller, meaner lives …
Sandy Tregent@SandyofSuffolk
You can buy a nice little house like this in Suffolk with a 5% deposit of £6,000. Nationwide, Barclays and others are offering good deals for first time buyers with only a 5% deposit. But then you'd have to forego your gap year in the Far East and Antipodes or your fancy wedding. Poor you. Boo hoo. 🤣
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@DominicMcGregor This won’t work either, why are people going to pay into a private pension if it means having their state pension removed….
If the pension is your biggest worry at 32, get out more. You’ll be Islam by 65 anyway. So save your worry and put it to better use
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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.
Good Morning Britain@GMB
More than 12 million pensioners will see their state pension rise 4.8% today under the triple lock. But the government has been accused of doing too little for working-age households so is it time to scrap the triple lock?
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@AbolishNHSpls @exRAF_Al You go to college to study a trade…
Don’t worry though, with that initiative you won’t last in a trade 👍🏼
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@exRAF_Al If you don't have any tradies in the family or close family friends how're you meant to do that? Schools almost always push you into uni
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Should have learned a trade instead? I know a bricklayer who last week, secured himself a mortgage for a cracking three bedroom home after a year of overtime. If you repay a student loan and want to live in Canary Wharf, your problems have nothing to do with boomers.
Luke Robert Black 🌳@lukerobertblack
Ah yes - Sandy. A young and aspirational graduate, say, with a job at the Barclays in Canary Wharf, should definitely move a 3-hour commute away from London - to a place where they have no friends, no family and no support network.
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@gotrice2024 You wouldn’t buy a car in bits if you didn’t know how to build one, so why buy a kitchen???
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This family just got an IKEA kitchen delivered to their new home. It’s 210 packages, and many people say the instructions are almost nonexistent, it’s just diagrams.
He’s going to have to unbox every part and arrange it in a way that can be identified so that will help with the frustration, many people who bought this quit out of frustration and tried to return it.
Whenever people order kitchen sets like this, should it at least come with better instructions or at least a video, have you ever tried to put something together and the instructions weren’t clear and you ended up messing it up?
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@BenGrahamUK Not sure what’s worse… The security tags or that shitty piece of steak is £7.25!
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Britain has become so lawless that we now have to put security tags on £7.25 steaks.
What has happened to this country?
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@Emperormarkus78 @ReemAmirIbrahim How much NI do you actually contribute?
Are you tha skint you want to volunteer having no pension when your older to save a few quid now???
Strange folk u lot are
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I think the best thing to do here is to index state pensions back to when contributions were made, factor in all the stupid financial decisions governments they voted for did, and take a 50 percent haircut if they voted for Brexit. If that pension is not enough then they should have mandatory reverse mortgages applied.
That would be fairest on young people trying to make a living whilst supporting old people.
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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!
Sophie Corcoran@sophielouisecc
No. I don’t think pensioners should have to sell their houses to retire
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@Investor_Miller @HeatherBo63 My old man died at 58, how’s your theory working?!
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@HeatherBo63 You know people live longer now so its not the same. Things have changed . You pulling out way more than you ever put in
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Don't want to get into a bun fight here but why am I reading posts from younger people complaining about people getting a state pension?
Errrr, this is how it has always been. When we're young, we work hard for years and then we reach an age where we receive a pension and it's the next generation's turn.
What is it with a lot of younger people nowadays (god, I sound like my dad!), they want it all and would be happy if we just kicked the bucket when we retire.
I receive my state pension in November this year and I'm bloomin' well not going to feel guilty about it. I would never have complained about this when I was younger and working full time. Never even considered it.
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@Theo_Griffiths Best years 😂😂 it was like a year topa and you gave up fuck all
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young people like me gave up their best years to protect older generations in the pandemic - how have we been repaid since?
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🚨 WATCH: Robert Jenrick says younger people want their parents and grandparents to have a "decent retirement" "A lot of people who have pretty comfortable lives seem to want to take away a decent state pension from people who are finding life actually difficult"
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@BBLouisR @PrincePatel1993 I ain’t mad… what is mad is that you’re checking out my profile pic. It’s 5 years ago anyway. You should see what I ride on now…
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@Gilb0803 @PrincePatel1993 Why you mad? Is it because his car is better than the car you’ve got in your profile pic 🙈
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So why don't you interview me the first and only Indian Commonwealth and World champion instead of a thug who threatened to hit you? The masses want to know
Simon Jordan@Sjopinion10
Happy to show , the bits that weren’t shown …. That will make wilder look a bigger moron , than he already does .. He lied about saying I was told not to ask about fury . He turned a reasonable question about fury, a subject he has advanced into a race related rant . Threatened to punch me , screamed and hollered and makes out now he’s misrepresented 🤡🤡🤡🤡
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@ReemAmirIbrahim @Cray_tweets1 £1.3e12 - £1.3T!!!! This is the number as an approx calculated figure for NI contributions of the 13million over 65’s during their working life.
How much did the Asylum seeker contribute??
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State pension: £146 billion
Asylum seeker hotels: £2.1 billion
Sophie Corcoran@sophielouisecc
Young people Pensioners getting a pension they can live off of after working their whole damn lives - is not an attack on us It is the hotel dwellers and those that can’t be arsed to work - that we have to pay for that are the problem That is the actual unfairness here
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