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JRB
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@Benjibontheta @JRB___2 @canadiancarol1 Oh, and I have two sons 20s/30s and realise how your guys role, and it ain’t the same as we did!
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The anger against pensioners on here is enlightening .... envy, jealousy and greed with no perception as to who will pay for their old age - because it is all about the NOW and entitlement.
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@Benjibontheta @PercyB68 @canadiancarol1 I have a 6 year old phone that costs £7 a month. No car or debt and back living with parents to have any hope of affording a house later on.
Boomers have the same broken record takes and can only spew vitriol. They are completely out of touch with reality.
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@PercyB68 @JRB___2 @canadiancarol1 On what basis do you think you know what phone JRB has? Or what car they drive? Or what finance agreement they have? Or where their house is?
Where was your first house? What job did you have when you bought it?
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@ReemAmirIbrahim Reem - you have set in motion a massive, undeserved attack on all pensioners with this uneducated post.
I hold you directly responsible.
You should think about the consequences of your ill thought out musings before sending them into the abyss for any moro to take up the cudgel
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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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Oversaw the total destruction of our nation. Sat there and smiled as it happened. Not a word about it in seven decades.
She was a disgrace, no different to Charles.
British Bulldog NS@BulldogNs
The last true Monarch of Britain Her sons are a disgrace. She knew it Missed every day
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Benedict underestimated the sheer level of greed and selfishness involved here.
Benedict Spence@BenedictSpence
What makes a pensioner more deserving of protection from market forces than, say, a young family?
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@RetroTech92 @HasAhmed_ You mean the work which didn’t require substantial student debt which paid enough to buy housing 3x the salary on one income?
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@JRB___2 @HasAhmed_ What you don't understand is the amount of actual work that people had to do buy these houses. Not digital marketing or HR but working tough jobs like mining with little to no H&S, no workers rights to speak of, no help if they lost their jobs! Just pure work and misery!
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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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@RoseEdmunds @ChrisPickles24 She’s one of many unfortunately. They’re awful people.
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@ChrisPickles24 Never seen her before today.
Peak boomer entitlement.
And I say this as (an obviously very young!) boomer myself.
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I'd forgotten about this woman, then she pulls up with this corker...
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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@SirDanofC The only people that don’t seem to understand this are the boomers themselves…
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Ive owned 3 houses. I’m 45. I’ve observed all generations. Prospects for my kids are fucked. Yes it’s the government policies of the past thirty years but frankly the boomer attitude of "pull your socks up" ain’t going to cut it anymore. The entire system needs an overhaul
Cec Podd@CecPodd
@SirDanofC Maybe your property aspirations are higher than ours were? And, today's MW wage adjusted for inflation is t.w.i.c.e as much as l started on, £200 v £400. I do feel for today's young, l've 3 kids in their 20's, but is it a worse work environment than what l entered, late 70's?
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@RupertLowe10 Absolutely spot on Rupert. It’s such a shame most boomers view young people as lazy and entitled, whereas they could not be further from the truth. Usually it’s to deflect from boomer greed and financial illiteracy.
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Owning a home is FAR more difficult for young men and women today than it was for my generation. That’s just a fact.
Average earnings have not kept pace with average house prices - to suggest otherwise is ignorant. The gap has grown at an astronomical rate.
The young have every right to feel pissed off, I’m angry for them.
And I detest this patronising attitude of people my age that we just happened to manage it all so much better through ‘common sense’ and fewer avocados.
There are millions of young Brits who work hard, take care of their money and dedicate themselves - and yes, they are struggling to find a proper home.
They have done nothing wrong. In fact, they’ve done everything right but the system still failed them.
I am ensuring that there is a political party to finally represent them - Restore Britain is that party.
A party that supports the aspirational and committed young British men and women.
Scrapping interest on student loans. Stripping back the power of empire-building planning bureaucrats who cruelly prevent sensible house-building in fair locations. Crushing the overbearing regulations that make building anything so very cumbersome. Overhauling leasehold rules which trap owners with mutating service charges. Ending the vindictive war on landlords to make sustainably renting a proper option. Slashing tax to hand back financial control. Entirely abolishing stamp duty for Brits.
Because we will not tinker with the status quo, we will not conserve it, we will not reform it.
We will fundamentally change how this country operates.
The model must break.
I will make you one promise.
Restore Britain will break it.
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@BenedictSpence Thanks to the insane rent we pay to them and the record taxes we pay which mostly goes to them we can afford about £15k - what they paid for their house
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If pensioners want more money from younger taxpayers to fund their retirements, there’s a really easy way to make that happen: sell them your stuff.
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@LouiseGrace12 @Fiona35352137 @PatrickChristys The state pension is a safety net, designed to be supplemented by other forms of income. It is not the job level income which boomers seek.
They have such difficulty understanding this & that the current size of the state unsustainable. They cannot engage without being nasty.
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@JRB___2 @Fiona35352137 @PatrickChristys There are creative ways to approach, and allow the meagre state pension to provide an appropriate level of support for those pensioners for whom it's essential. Takes political savvy & priority adjustment. Your comment ironic!
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@PatrickChristys
Have you seen the concerted effort that’s in motion, to attack pensioners in the past few days?
This is not acceptable and I would go as far as to say it’s incitement from some who should know better.
I’m happy to discuss, as frankly, I’m at the end of tether
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@classtecenemanl @Fiona35352137 @ManOfKent15 She hasn’t been. She knows she’s wrong so she’s playing the victim card.
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@Fiona35352137 @ManOfKent15 I’m sorry you feel intimidated and bullied. Nothing I’ve done warrants that characterisation.
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The 1946 National Insurance Act was called 'the best insurance policy the British people ever had' by the Labour government at that time.
It entitled pensioners to a contribution-based pension that would not be means-tested.
To renege on that contract now would be one of the biggest betrayals of the British people ever.
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The Boomer replies I'm this making endless excuses is hilarious. I swear that this is the generation least able to take any responsibility (hence the current state of the country).
Ben Ramanauskas@BenRamanauskas
You got significant tax relief on your mortgage payment through (MIRAS) in the 80s and 90s on a property which was far cheaper than homes today.
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This @SandyofSuffolk blocked me ages ago. She’s now resurfaced to tell young people that they shouldn’t marry, shouldn’t eat, shouldn’t holiday, should commute for 3 hours, and should live in a shithole. If we forsake any of this, we are lazy.
The epitome of the eternal boomer.
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Our issue is with the triple lock. It was widely understood by experts, policymakers, and its creators to be a temporary measure intended to run for a limited period, rather than a permanent fixture of the UK pension.
No other group has this level of security or will have this security when it comes to their pension age. In an ideal world we would love for them to have it, but young people aren’t seeing any meaningful wage increase vs cost of living, they suffer with home insecurity leading to a drop in birth rates and crippling university fees…. When will younger generations be looked after or considered for anything ???
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@JRB___2 @Benjibontheta @canadiancarol1 Your generation couldn’t teach me shit about ‘financial responsibility’ ffs! You MUST have the latest phones - on contract, new cars - on PCP, nice flats in the best parts of town - rented, etc. Your generation just ‘wants’ everything now, like it’s your god given right!
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@AkkadSecretary The last few days have radicalised me more than the previous 5 years
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Bro baited boomers into claiming they are more deserving than babies
Benedict Spence@BenedictSpence
What makes a pensioner more deserving of protection from market forces than, say, a young family?
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