Ana🇬🇷🙂
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Since you’re the DWP expert @LBC relies on, can you explain where this £6,000 figure comes from? Because it doesn’t exist.
What does exist is a 4.8% state pension rise as of this month, going to many wealthier boomers living in Marbella than the working class people in genuine need who you’re criticising.
Strange how your outrage only ever points one way.
Sophie Corcoran@sophielouisecc
Many of us are at work today on a bank holiday, knowing full well that people on benefits have just got a bonus of £6000. I would have to work around 500 hours to get an extra 6k - they don’t have to do anything Why do we even bother
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@MccallCarole @justaphag6 @Anjelae9 The same cheap houses boomers have been telling young people to move. 5 hrs away from London or 2 hrs away any city with work, areas without jobs, remote villages since you know its perfect for young people so it would be for them too.
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@justaphag6 @Anjelae9 And just where do you suggest they go? If they have family close by, and worked hard to save for their homes! What if there aren’t enough smaller properties in the area, you would just make them up and leave! Absolutely nuts!
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RICH PENSIONERS SHOULD NOT COME BEFORE NEW FAMILIES!
Verhofstadt's Quiff@VerhofstadtQ
Anybody who argues that the UK can't afford to pay state pensions but can afford to lift the two-child benefit cap is either as thick as pigshit or one of the beneficiaries.
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Ana🇬🇷🙂 ری ٹویٹ کیا
This man murdered his parents and his dog, but he says he’s a woman so now women have to bunk with him in prison, and get punished if they don’t like it.
Of course he sexually assaulted a woman and threatened to kill her.
Collin Rugg@CollinRugg
NEW: Man who identifies as a woman who was convicted of stabbing his parents and dog to death is being sued for s*xually assaulting a woman in prison. Andrew (Andrea) Balcer was sentenced to 40 years for murder and was placed in a women's correctional facility because he claimed to be a woman. According to court documents, inmate Katie Mountain is accusing Blacer of threatening to r*pe and impregnate her. She accuses Balcer of trapping her in a bathroom and forcibly kissing her. "Don't worry, if you don't wake up, it's because I smothered you with a pillow," Blacer allegedly said, according to CBS13. The woman says she was transferred to segregation and denied medication after she refused to bunk with Balcer and says she no longer qualifies for early release because of the incident.
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@redrumlisa @JoshAlexCairo And some "pensioners" are calling young women greedy whores.
In fact none of this happens because noone really knows who is actually real or a troll/bot.
So maybe we should refrain from looking at edge and extreme cases because some might not even be true.
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@JoshAlexCairo Have you seen this platform for 4 days now some dont want pensioners to exist
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All these bright young middle class Millenials & Gen Zers think they are fighting an enemy today their own grandparents not understanding that removing pensions for this generation means you remove it from every generation with a different life experience they dont even have the empathy for their future selves.
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@GlenIrvine1 @francessmith @BenedictSpence I appreciate your educated language new retiree, please do teach me more.
Also the fact that you think I am ok with what you described shows the lack of depth in your thinking. Keep calling names though that will help.
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@Anas_Sloth @francessmith @BenedictSpence Try telling that to this Government but especially the lazy feckless bastards on tax free Benefits who have just had a 6.2% increase in payments you economically illiterate dullard.
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Pensioners may wish to consider that responding to working people’s struggles with contempt and vitriol, as evidenced in the replies, might not be a great long-term strategy if they want to keep their benefits.
Rosie@rosie_eats
My only response to boomer housing discourse is that my nan on her final salary teachers pension gets the same monthly income I get as a teacher on the inner London pay scale
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@francessmith @BenedictSpence THATS THE POINT.
This will become faster if boomers keep telling the young "shut up and stop having avocado"
why you don't see this.....
Also if UK is bankrupt their won't be any choosing in the matter.
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@Anas_Sloth @BenedictSpence Time comes rapidly down the road at an alarming speed. People don't stay young forever, the young will age and like some old fable discover that it's them that won't get that State Pension they gleefully campaigned to abolish to annoy the boomers. That's the cautionary tale.
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@francessmith @BenedictSpence That is the result of a whole pile on and is more of "Maybe look after the young and don't be condescending because eventually they will out vote you and they will remember" Its more of a cosionary tale.
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@Anas_Sloth @BenedictSpence "If they want to keep their benefits" he says. Benedict has perhaps an issue with time. Pensioners aren't a static group, every year some die, and new ones reach pension age. But you're right unless YOU protect pensions you won't have any. Be careful what you seek to destroy.
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@francessmith @BenedictSpence He didn't threaten. He made a valid question. Why government should financially protect the equities of old but not the young. People are talking about the triple lock not the whole pension. Especially for younger people elwhen end up in pensions age it won't be any
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@Anas_Sloth @BenedictSpence He threatens pensioner benefits, as if he were some Dorian Gray figure who would never age himself. The State Pension as a concept needs to be protected from those foolish enough to think they will never age.
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@andie52 @francessmith @BenedictSpence The whole point was that focus on pentioners from the governmner isnt a good strategy. The moment I say this people get very diffensive.
Its unsustainable to have above inflation increases. As for the other benefits to non contributes I agree its a bigger problem.
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@Anas_Sloth @francessmith @BenedictSpence It's also unsustainable to dish out benefits to those who refuse to work, but here we are. Remember the state pension is a contributory benefit and is taxable, so it's only fair that benefits should go the same way, no? Direct your anger at those in charge, not old people.
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@confidencenac @Casserly_Rock Yes because very famously the woman that pushed for the assisted dying bill in England which started the whole thing is gen Z or millennial..
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Totally.
I’ve seen the nasty bile on here and I’ve decided to let Karma sort them out.
I have better things to do and probably more useful to the community than the shabby lot hating older generations.
It’s been utterly shameful.
Tinebob@Tinebobagain
To be clear, I want young people to have homes & work & fantastic lives. I can’t imagine why anyone wouldn’t. But this hatred of older people is not acceptable. And it IS hatred. Pure venom I have no idea where it came from but it will not end well, for anyone Change course.
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@francessmith @BenedictSpence What is this weird emotional language. It is unsustainable to have above inflation pension increases when the economy been stagnating for years. Telling young people to just commute 4 hrs or other condescending remarks is not helping.
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@BenedictSpence Then how will you exert your power to remove the State Pension, Mr Scrooge?
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@alan_dvdsn @mckenzie_sohan @lukerobertblack I suffered therfore you should too and on top of that you won't get the benefits of a good economy.....
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@mckenzie_sohan @lukerobertblack Missing the point - if you want the asset you have to make the sacrifice. Until 5 yrs ago WFH wasn’t a thing - many of tye boomers did far more commuting than this.
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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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@Pabel5Pabel @SustainableTall The majority didn't? There was a huge shift to cities even from the older generation. Lots of towns were pushed to poverty with the de-indastralisation of UK.
Dont expect young people to move to remote a reason and then not allow them to move their jobs.
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Classic.
Telling Gen Z they could buy a home away from cities, but also that they can’t work remotely…
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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@thisissavvy1 Em it is debatable actually. There are not contemporary evidence of his existence.....
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He did exist. That's not debatable. No historian denies the existence of Jesus. Did he or did he not resurrect is the question.
VanTaity@Taity813112
@thisissavvy1 Or he didn't exist at all 🤔
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@SandyofSuffolk @Lewis09960155 @skedeschi Is this really a good argument. Lest be honest. Take a sit back and think. How many jobs and what type of jobs are on an 30 min radius of that place. Please, most people cant create their own jobs or take them to remote areas. Believe me I am trying
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@Lewis09960155 @skedeschi Some people should move jobs then.
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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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@LB0000003 Stop whining you can't afford a house then you stupid girl.
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@ktfbtc @Kennvertn878 It's 30 minutes on the train to the city of Norwich.
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Ana🇬🇷🙂 ری ٹویٹ کیا
27% are millionaires, mostly via property, but most have no private pension and rely entirely on the state, which is in deep distress.
This system is going to forcibly correct via collapse, whereby pensioners will sell off their properties at discounted rates (probably to asset managers).
The state pension will either cease to exist or become means tested.
I'm not saying this to be hurtful, this is just the way it's going to go. And if I was a pensioner I'd feel pretty angry that this is coming because I *thought* I had done the right thing for my whole life.
Today's pensioners will soon end up betrayed by the system just like the youth have been already.
Cal@Cal_III
27% of pensioners are millionaires according to ONS wealth surveys.
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@Landeur I'll not obstruct initiatives to build more housing in my neighbourhood even if it will bring my own house's value down
I'll vote for whoever is prioritising realistic affordable housing plans even if other policies disadvantage me financially.
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What are you willing to sacrifice to ensure that young people have homes & work & fantastic lives?
Something? Anything? Nothing?
Tinebob@Tinebobagain
To be clear, I want young people to have homes & work & fantastic lives. I can’t imagine why anyone wouldn’t. But this hatred of older people is not acceptable. And it IS hatred. Pure venom I have no idea where it came from but it will not end well, for anyone Change course.
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@mhdp @AlwaysAgnew @Landeur I mean our income? That it gets more taxed by the day? Council tax keeps increasing and get more and more in care...
People should be cared for when they need it but there has to be a balance
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