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@CMDR_Solace @TW1TTERJAIL @Defence_Index 100% I still wonder what the counter to well prepared and defended armour. It’s other armour, maybe artillery but then you have counter battery fire 🤔🤔

@TW1TTERJAIL @Defence_Index Using Tanks in situations that expose them to more unnecessary risks, lack of counter-drone training, and counter-drone support elements is a death sentence. Once you figure out the details, you can deploy armor more effectively again. That's what this exercise is for.

⚡🇺🇸: During a U.S. military exercise, it was revealed that American soldiers were unprepared against FPV drone attacks.

@jackisgeeky @AlrxCox I am not, I agree we should cut a lot. But why should we keep paying wealthy old people benefits?

@Aliscottish @AlrxCox Are you an expert in finance and economics? The state budget is more than just the state pension, there are lots of things that could be cut. What about actually growing the economy, that solves a lot of issues.

There are 2 common arguments under this post: 1. “We paid in for a pension at the end”. No you didn’t, the state pension, like every other benefit, is paid entirely by today’s national insurance contributions. You never paid into a ring fenced “pension pot”. Baby boomers are also getting ~120-130% out compared to what they paid in. 2. “Is your solution to just make OAPs suffer then?” No, obviously not, the simple and fiscally responsible answer to the triple lock is to change state pension eligibility from universal to those who are in genuine need of it. No more millionaires getting a top up from people who get £20,000 a year, it should be exclusively for pensioners who can’t live without it.

@PhilipDilley @elliehodges62 If we learned from our elders our country would get worse. They voted and created the mess we will inherit and we are somehow meant to be grateful.

You know, Winston Churchill was 65 when he was called into number 10. Those who fought in the Falklands and freed the hostages at the Iranian embassy are all pensioners now. They have an accumulated knowledge and wisdom which probably started by respecting their own elders and learning from them, as people have done for 8000 years or so until we decided to start listening to young girls who feel confident to mock the people they should be respecting and listening to. Looking at today's society, I don't think that is working too well you know. You should apologise for that post and have a little thing.

Pensioners tea party

@jackisgeeky @AlrxCox Do you not think that’s an issue? It’s currently funded by the current tax cohort. With people having less children the tax payers to dependent ratio is going to be off and unsustainable. There is going to be no money for your promise.

@AlrxCox This is not even a discussion, they can’t take away something we’ve been promised for decades. I don’t frankly care how it’s funded that isn’t my problem.

@ManOfKent15 Like any act of parliament it can be repealed. State pension is a benefit and should be added to universal credit and treated like all other benefits. The tax isn’t in place to support the boomers. Easy for boomers to support the greatest generation as it was a small number.

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.

@jone45619 Grow up, I knew about the need to have a pension and save for retirement in my early 20s. All boomers claim to have no understanding of money and yet will be more wealthy than their children (1st time ever). What young person has spare money for a pension anyway.

I am due to retire in 5 years. Have not worked in a company that until quite recently offered any type of pension. I paid NI, I understand the younger folk are fed up but we didn't all have money or knowledge about pensions. Stop blaming us for being alive

@AttonSusan @blaiklockBP @Sargon_of_Akkad Who is going to opt out of free money?? I am 31 most of my friends can’t afford a house and won’t have children, there isn’t going to be a tax base to pay for our pensions. But we get the honour of paying for boomers ever expanding state pension which a lot don’t need.

@Aliscottish @blaiklockBP @Sargon_of_Akkad Our chdn are in 30s, the very “young people” demographic to which you refer. They won’t need to elect to take a state pension. Everyone six months out from the age of entitlement receives a letter. You then have to respond positively to receive it. Everyone can choose not to.

Farage has stepped on a land mine and doesn’t realise it yet. @Sargon_of_Akkad

@SandyofSuffolk Oh god 14% rate 🥱 on a house which was 2-3x earnings not 8-10 lol

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.

@AttonSusan @blaiklockBP @Sargon_of_Akkad And that’s great so why do they need state pension benefits then? And why on earth does it need a triple lock? That’s insane growth young people are on the hook for. Let alone the demographics are out of whack since pensions were introduced.

@Aliscottish @blaiklockBP @Sargon_of_Akkad Pensioners are not the “rich”. The “rich” are all those who use every advantage of their education, work hard, are good stewards of their income and make sensible fiscal decisions. And I count all our four chdn in that definition.

@Rowansm16268989 @Smt66S @sophielouisecc I want all these boomers to go to HMRC and ask for their pot. That’s if they were ever net tax contributors, which given how rich they are as a generation I am sure they have been. Not sure why they believed the spin for so long. Easy maths when there is a deficit year on year

@Smt66S @sophielouisecc You didn't pay for state pension. You paid into NI. The state pension is paid through general taxation. Therefore, you didn't pay for it. Post war prosperity, cheap money w/ low interest rates and then close the door to opportunities to the young. And still play the victim😂

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

@AttonSusan @blaiklockBP @Sargon_of_Akkad It was a tax like everything it all goes into the same account and gets spent like everything else. You can’t have an “insurance” that’s not funded by anything. And you are right they spaffed it up the wall so why should young people pay the rise and subsidies the rich?

@Aliscottish @blaiklockBP @Sargon_of_Akkad Paid lots of “tax”, just like others who worked hard graft for 40 plus years. And then there was “National Insurance” on top which was a health and pension insurance, again with the hard grafters. This was not a “tax”; it was an insurance. We paid it; govts spaffed it up the wall

@sophielouisecc Paid for by who???? Pensions should be a means tested benefit like every other benefit is.

Yes - young people have it rough But over my dead body will I blame pensioners Everyone deserves a dignified retirement

@AttonSusan @blaiklockBP @Sargon_of_Akkad Full contributions for what? You paid a tax like everyone else has and it’s was fully spent that year, the government then borrowed to make the difference. Pensions are paid by the current tax cohort, pension is a benefit it should be treated like one and means tested.

@blaiklockBP @Sargon_of_Akkad Interesting how much lack of empathy, nay hatred, you are revealing today in your invective against pensioners, many of whom worked from 16 to 66 paying full contributions. Not one of our four 30/40-year old children resent our state pension. So grateful.

@lotuseaters_com I am off to Denny Sunday for lunch and to top up my collection 🫡🫡🫡🫡

Denby nationalism 🫡

@ARealPretender @PolitlcsUK @ObserverUK Should those with children benefit from the tax they pay when they are adults and those without get nothing? What generation do you think funds pensions?

@PolitlcsUK @ObserverUK Will I get a tax break for not having children then? Why do those with no children fund those who choose to have 10? If you can't afford kids, don't bloody have so many.

🚨 NEW: Keir Starmer has privately decided to scrap the two-child benefit cap, which will cost £3.5bn a year [@ObserverUK]

@stats_feed Rome total war

What is the best video game of all time?

@David__Osland They are governed incredibly well in a federal system which has amongst other things competitive cantonal tax systems. They have lower taxes than the uk by far. It also helps they don’t hate their electorate and have many public referendums. Unlike our corrupt system.

Switzerland has a wealth tax. And funnily enough, rich people aren't flocking to leave the country. In fact, they're queuing up to get in.

@ColossalOrder Can you do some PC benchmarks with the game please? Struggling to find many people who do, and I am looking to get a new rig to play CS2 but I know the performance issues mean I need good hardware.

In anticipation of tomorrow's patch, we're curious: Which mode do you plan to use? 🤔

@greensignallers @LordPeterHendy On the point about the GBR app and website. They just need to copy what SBB (Switzerland) do. The app is amazing, covers the whole country and integrates bus,tram,train, boat and gondola. Glad GBR will have one platform one day.

@andrewlawrence I think labour are forcing the economy to tank, so the BoE ride in to save the day by cutting rates. The gov then claim they have reduced mortgages and it saves them on gov borrowing. They lie about wanting growth as a cover.

It's almost as if taxing people into poverty and then spaffing that money on Ukraine, parasitic boat people and a public sector full of workshy binslugs is a recipe for economic failure.