John Lonnon
22K posts
John Lonnon
@devilfruitbat
living the long 2016
European Union Sumali Eylül 2017
1.2K Sinusundan545 Mga Tagasunod
Says this but has a timeline full of the Approved Bigotry.
Jack D 🏳️🌈@JackDunc1
It's because we rejected hate and chose being decent people.
English
@VerhofstadtQ Sell it, pay for your retirement like your parents had to
English
As part of the pensions argument, some people keep referring to old people being wealthy due to the value of their home. It's irrelevant.
I don't care whether my house is worth £500,000 or 50 quid. I live here, I'm staying here, I'll probably die here, so the money means nothing.
English
@ivan_nffc @JRB___2 @man1cm1ner @SirDanofC you didn't sort anything out other than the complete exploitation of younger generations lmao
English
@JRB___2 @man1cm1ner @SirDanofC Bash away, we don't fucking care chap, sort yourself out like we did, the fucking entitlement
English
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?
English
Young people tend to spend more on transport, consumer goods, clothing, children, entertainment and holidays. Pensioners tend to spend more on tradesmen, healthcare, local goods and services, housing costs, gifts and energy. The idea that pension money is wasted, is facile. It funds the salaries and jobs of people who would otherwise be overlooked or in sectors that would be meaningfully smaller.
Benedict Spence@BenedictSpence
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.
English
You’ve literally just described capitalism
Peter McCormack 🏴☠️🇬🇧🇮🇪@PeterMcCormack
One of the biggest problems of our time is people believing they deserve to live off the productivity of other people.
English
@Just_Carl__ @GuntherEagleman Same thing. England has colonized Scotland, Ireland and Wales
English
I don’t want my taxpayer money going to NATO! It’s useless.
Spain, England, France and Italy sold us out.
Time to leave! Not another penny.
English
@Shirley_Wells @Kylo53 @SandyofSuffolk @ktfbtc @Kennvertn878 Yeah, I'd drive hours to get away from you too.
English
@Kylo53 @SandyofSuffolk @ktfbtc @Kennvertn878 Omg 😂 My husband used to spend just under 4 hours getting to and from work each day. Five and a half day week too 😂
English
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. 🤣
English
I do love the daily outpourings of this slop merchant. Highly amusing.
Harry Eccles@Heccles94
Billionaires do not create jobs. Stop saying it. Without billionaires, we would still build things, design things, teach things, sell things, buy things. Billionaires capitalise profits. That's it.
English
New physics just dropped
Philip Cross@jobber_phil
@ManaByte light from a laser takes 3 seconds to reach to moon, a radio wave travels slower than light so a ship moving away from the earth isn`t capable of transmitting live in real time, and the further the ship goes from the earth the greater the problem will be until it returns.
English
Spain, England & France should be treated as the rump of NATO. I wouldn’t be surprised if one or two of them is cut out of NATO altogether.
No one should be confused about what these countries will do if Communist China attacks Taiwan.
They’ll sell out allies and cut a deal.
Ari Fleischer@AriFleischer
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.
English
English
@BenRamanauskas @RealismHelps @jimkyle90 I wonder how the majority of the country who dont live in London manage.
English
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.
Jen k 🇬🇧🏴@Jenny_1884
When I married in 1981 we both worked & most of our salary went on paying the mortgage as the interest rate was 15% at the time. Everything we owned was 2nd hand & we never went out for meals as we couldn’t afford to. We rented our TV Went to the launderette every weekend as had no washing machine. Only had new clothes at Xmas & birthdays as presents. We went without until we could save enough to pay for something. It’s always been hard whether you are young or old. So those out there that think we had it easy we didn’t. Our governments are to blame, not the old.
English
Enjoy this thread of this guy constantly slapping himself in the face
Optimist Prime@trevgoes4th
@shivmalik They also had 15% mortgages and a number of crashes
English
@nobdy_imp @peterrhague @canadiancarol1 If only the current pensioners had been the dominant voting bloc for the last 50 years
English
@peterrhague @canadiancarol1 The pensioners didn't steal your car, the government did, and failed to make credible arrangements to hand you a new car at the appropriate time people should point their anger in the right place.
Pensioners over 80 also didnt get a new car, and are making do on with a Trabant.
English
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.
English
@ArchaeoAnni @NJM71 Those "older people" have been the dominant voting bloc since the late 1970s. It *is* their fault.
English
@NJM71 The triple lock needs revision, but young people will get old too. It's not fair to blame older people for the ills of society, not caused by them, but by government promises. We all get old.
English
This again. It's not the responsibility of younger generations to fund state pension benefits = to a "living wage" for retired people. Current pensioners didn't do it, nor did they fund a triple lock. Regardless, people can't expect others to fund 100% of their retirement.
Sensible Simon@simonwatt85
The National Living Wage is right now, £12.21 per hour. In a 35 hour week you will earn £427.35 so in a year it’s £22,222 Presumably they call it a living wage because that gives you enough to live on. A pensioner gets £10,000 less than that. Greedy blighters.
English
English
Español
I like how Argentina's entire modern identity is based on their repressive dictatorship's failure to conquer a small neighbouring territory. Imagine if Germany failed to conquer Denmark in 1940 and every German still seethed about it today
loli@bjwlled
"Un pueblo jamás debe olvidar a quienes dieron su vida por la dignidad de todos" Malvinas por siempre argentinas.
English
English
If you want us to use your spelling in our language, tell us first what Turks call our nations in Turkish.
English