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@Investor_Miller @SandyofSuffolk If all these pensioners are so well off by owning their own homes surely it is all the boomer haters that benefit in the long run,most of the parents of my generation rented and couldn't leave us anything but memories.

This isnt true. Well being lied too about going to uni to get a better job was and then many left and there was no such job. I think you would be annoyed also. But they mad cause the boomers always seem to call them lazy and put them down even though these same boomers benefited from 10x house increased and stock market explosion and even old idiots are on paper rich.

The trouble is young people have been told for years "you can be anything you want to be", when you can't. They've seen a handful of people make millions from being an influencer. They've all gone to university thinking it'll be a gateway to a better job when, really, if you're not exceptionally bright, you may as well not have bothered. The majority of people have to settle for run of the mill boring jobs. And young people are resentful. They're waking up to the fact life is hard graft and to get anything you have to work hard, long hours, and forego many things that, until adulthood, were handed to them on a plate. They're lashing out because too many people like teachers and their soft parents haven't prepared them for life in the real world. It's coming home to roost that life isn't all unicorns and gap years. They want what nan and grandad have. Now. Now!! They forget how nan and grandad got it and it wasn't by sitting on their bums on Playstation. Welcome to planet earth young 'uns.

@tgphelan1 @SandyofSuffolk I worked all week and had a part-time job on top,my husband had a maintenance job where he had to work 2 hours overtime every night to maintain machines for the next day when the other workers went home.That wasn't easy.

@SandyofSuffolk I work all week, what are you talking about? It’s also Saturday.

@KiplingChrist @SandyofSuffolk We paid between 30 to 50% tax out of our wages,plus NI and graduated pension what are you paying?

@SandyofSuffolk Your generation are stealing from the mouths of your own kids to finance state pensions far in excess of what you expected your parents to live on when you were paying in. Maybe you should have saved more.

@KiplingChrist @SandyofSuffolk If we did it was a small terrace house ,we couldn't afford to furnish because everything was so much more expensive compared to today.We had to buy or rent cookers from elec or gas board there was no competition to lower prices,TVs very expensive,we rented one after a year.

@SandyofSuffolk Yes you could buy a house on three to five times one salary. A golden age. You were very lucky. It is sad you destroyed that for the next generation.

Mr Starmer, The world is watching. And for once, I’m not here to play nice or balance both sides. This is the one shot I get to say what millions already know in their bones. You are not Britain’s Prime Minister. You are a man who won an election and immediately began dismantling the very things the British people voted for in 2016. You are squatting in Downing Street while steering the country back into the arms of the institution it explicitly rejected. If you will not stand down, the British people will make you. Here is every claim you made today, stripped bare, no spin, no mercy: 1. “The Middle East conflict has now entered its second month.” Thank you for the calendar update. While you counted months, the IRGC a group formally designated as terrorists by the United States, Canada, and others, continued running its London operations from 16 Prince’s Gate, Knightsbridge. You did nothing. 2. “The UK is working at pace for de-escalation and peace.” Translation: we issued strongly worded statements. Results: zero. Your “pace” is the speed of a snail on tranquillisers. 3. “The war will affect the future of our country, energy and cost of living.” It already is. Your green ideology and EU realignment have left Britain with some of the highest energy prices in the developed world. Pensioners choose between heating and eating. That’s not “the war.” That’s policy. 4. “We are well-placed with a long-term plan to emerge stronger and more secure.” Record taxes. 7.5 million people on NHS waiting lists. Record small-boat crossings. Energy bills that could bankrupt households. If this is your definition of “stronger and more secure,” the English language just filed for divorce. 5. “I held meetings with business leaders…” Photo opportunities. They warned you. You smiled for the cameras and carried on regardless. 6. “Energy bills will be cut today and fixed until July.” A £117 cap that your own NI increases and green levies have already vaporised. It’s not relief. It’s an insult dressed up as compassion. 7. “The most effective way to support the cost of living is to push for reopening the Strait of Hormuz.” Then why did you help shut down North Sea production and make us dependent on foreign energy? The hypocrisy is so thick you could spread it on toast. 8. “The UK is taking back control of our energy security by investing in clean British energy.” Britain now pays the highest industrial electricity prices in Europe. Blackouts are on the menu. This is not “taking back control.” This is self-sabotage with better PR. 9. “Because the world is volatile, Britain’s long-term national interest now requires closer partnership with the EU.” Let’s be honest for once: you are using a foreign crisis as cover to hand sovereignty, money, and decision-making back to Brussels without asking the British people. That is not statesmanship. That is betrayal by stealth. 10. “I will announce a new summit with the EU later this year…” Re-joining by the back door while an Iranian terror-linked operation sits in one of London’s most expensive postcodes. The sheer gall is almost impressive. You stood at the podium today and spoke of “British interests” while actively working against them. You swore you wouldn’t rejoin the EU. You are doing it anyway. You talk of security while leaving a designated terror network untouched in central London. You lecture about the cost of living while your policies make it worse. The mask is not slipping, Keir. It has fallen off and shattered on the floor. The British people see you clearly now: a politician who values international approval and Brussels goodwill more than the nation that elected him. You are not leading Britain. You are managing its managed decline. The clock is ticking. Not in secret. Not in silence. Out loud, in broad daylight, across every pub, every kitchen table, every X feed and every street in this country. History does not forgive those who sell their own people’s sovereignty for applause. Britain did not vote for this. Britain does not want this. And Britain will not tolerate this forever. The reckoning is coming. And it will not be kind. Britain First. No Surrender. 🦁🇬🇧

@glasgowspaniel1 @LukeBarnes12 @SandyofSuffolk People forget we have paid NI for 50 years but also paid third to half our wages in income tax before 2008 when it was reduced to 20 %. It is not our fault but all governments fault for getting us into the mess the country is in.

@LukeBarnes12 @SandyofSuffolk Your proposal other than grumbling about pensioners is?Many pensioners who worked for 50 years on low incomes are among the most vulnerable in society. Even a very modest private pension precludes access to benefits. The State pension was not sold as a benefit but an entitlement

As it appears to be pensioner bashing weekend and pensioners seem to be the ones wholly responsible for the dire economic state of the country, I thought I'd apprise you all of some facts and figures. Between April 2024 and March 2025, the cost of keeping asylum seekers in hotels was £2.1 billion. In 2023, £15.3 billion was spent on foreign aid. As of August 2025, there were 740,000 people aged between 16 and 24 years old receiving Universal Credit. The benefits bill for people aged between 16 and 64 in 2024/25 was £123 billion. In this decade (2020s), our annual net zero transition costs are estimated to be £125 billion. UK quangos cost the taxpayers between £376 - 391 billion per year (2023/4 figures). MPs' expenses (not salaries) are in the region of £130 - 150 million a year. The UK has committed to give the European Space Agency £1.84 billion for the period 2022/27. Since 2022, the UK has committed to give Ukraine £21.8 billion. The UK continues to give money to the EU under the Brexit divorce. As at March 2024, there is still £6.4 billion outstanding. 'Free breakfasts' in schools cost the UK taxpayers an estimated 1 billion per year. I'm sure I could go on. But it's just too depressing. The spending is out of all control, and rising. The interest on our national debt rises daily. And we're governed by socialists who love spending everyone's money but their own. As do all governments and councils. But, of course, it's all the fault of old age pensioners. Rolls eyes. A lot. 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄

@flounders912 @Harri21263Steve @redrumlisa @oldtrafffaith So immigration is the problem not British Boomers.

@Harri21263Steve @redrumlisa @oldtrafffaith This includes immigration. The UK birthrate has been below replacement for 50 years.

This divisive & very nasty 'boomer' narrative by younger people is definitely being pushed by the younger middle class generation who feel entitled by their class but realise the disadvantage of their generation. Its not working class young people pushing this because they dont have parents & grandparents with the wealth the middle class see in their families

@BasedBretwalda @SockAcc63533066 @redrumlisa Why blame all so called Boomers when it was MPs who caused it Boomers and GenX

@SockAcc63533066 @redrumlisa Yes, parental nurture often dictates you want the best for your children. Boomers left us with a mass migration problem, a completely broken economy, a housing crisis and an unaffordable state pension. The youth are simply saying "why won't you help me".

@RachelT1722 @go93671 @juneslater17 @CarolPringle15 @miriam_cates If it's a couple it's 4x each income.Only my husband's wage was taken into account when we bought our first house 4x his income and we paid 15% interest on the mortgage.

@rumamay @go93671 @juneslater17 @CarolPringle15 @miriam_cates So homes being 8x salary is just a myth then? 🤔

Britain's socialist gerontocracy is alive and well.

@GreekEconomyFTW @Jenny_1884 Pensioners who paid around 50% income tax in 50s and 60s to rebuild the country after the war didn't have much spare money to save,when we did we paid up to 17%interest on mortgages.

@Jenny_1884 Pensioners who have worked their whole lives but unable to save or invest? They endured over 4 decades of economic boom! Boomers are taking more out of the system, than they've paid in. It's simple: We cannot afford it! Close the borders & begin mass deportations too.

For those that appear to begrudge pensioners their state pension just remember that the majority of these people worked from the age of 16yrs until retirement paying their taxes. Compare that to today when there are millions on benefits not paying any taxes but will still receive a state pension. Also the state pension is well below the living wage & yet a lot of pensioners are expected to get by with no additional help unlike people on benefits.

@go93671 @RachelT1722 @juneslater17 @CarolPringle15 @miriam_cates 5 nieces and nephews around the country under 30 bought houses by saving and buying small terraced houses,furnished with family cast offs until they could afford better.They made buying a house a priority before expensive holidays,cars and other luxuries and starting a family.

@RachelT1722 @juneslater17 @CarolPringle15 @miriam_cates My 28 yr old daughter and 30yr old son have managed to buy their own homes with their other halves. They work hard took on evening work, they live in Surrey so it’s not cheap, they go without, so they can have their own homes

@alfamito155 @juneslater17 @jemmm85517813 @miriam_cates VAT,possibly car tax.

@juneslater17 @jemmm85517813 @miriam_cates We still pay income tax! Capital gains tax! Dividends tax! Inheritance tax!

So the new eejit leader of The Green Party,Zac Polanski reckons it’s OK to shoplift if you’re poor. So a party leader is openly encouraging people to commit a crime that cost retailers £2.2BILLION last year? express.co.uk/news/uk/210499…

@JaneAllman14137 @StevenJonMiller So people who belonged to other parties, just like Reform, but you claim failed Tories for Reform. The Tories who have gone to Reform have stood by their own principles they are only failed Tories because Tory party failed them. I admire them taking a stand.

@rumamay @StevenJonMiller I'm not sure yet Uma, they haven't been announced yet, give them chance. But its a fact they are all being thoroughly vetted beforehand, unlike most other parties do.

🤔 UNITE the RIGHT Is this the only way to ensure the left are defeated?

@Jenny_1884 Just read his statement, nothing new, same old waffle.

Keir Starmer to address the nation shortly. Who else won’t be listening to his lies? I can’t even look at the man anymore let alone listen to his nonsense.

@Ed_Miliband You moved some green tariffs into general taxation so it's the workers who lose out again.

From today, energy bills will fall by 7% for families across the country. We took the decision in the Budget to ask those with the broadest shoulders to pay their fair share, and today we see the result of that. Vital cost of living support delivered by this government.

Imagine if the 'far right' had carried on like the thugs in Clapham yesterday. Keir Starmer would be telling the judiciary to let them feel the full force of the law. And the judges would sentence them all to 31 months in prison. Like Lucy Connolly. Who wasn't a thug, didn't loot or steal. Just wrote words she later deleted. Imagine.

@scalyonee1977 @BaileyEmanuella @LindsayHoyle_MP @Keir_Starmer @UKParliament April fool? Parliament is in recess.

Speaker of the house @LindsayHoyle_MP will force @Keir_Starmer to answer PM questions today in @UKParliament

@JaneAllman14137 @StevenJonMiller Which parties do the Restore leaders come from?

@StevenJonMiller No Steve. We don't want or need Farage and his bunch of failed Tory's thanks. Rupert is honest and a true patriot. Farage is trying to be everything to all people, and failing terribly. Restore Britain can do this without him. RESTORE BRITAIN 🇬🇧

@SciFiGeek74 @absolutesoprano @elliehodges62 @eddievan1 They voted against a Bill that was unfair to small business owners with new rules that will crush many small businesses creating more unemployment.

@absolutesoprano @elliehodges62 @eddievan1 They voted against the bill which will give workers more rights. Of course unions have political affiliations, they created the Labour Party. Unions should not be neutral and should fight for their members both in the work place and in parliament.

🚨 BREAKING 🚨 I’ve got my hands on the 2026 conference agenda for the National Education Union the UK’s largest teaching union. It states: “Reaffirm the union’s opposition to all forms of racism, fascism and far-right extremism, including the divisive politics promoted by Reform UK.” And then: “The trade union movement must throw its full weight behind stopping a Reform UK government.” This isn’t neutral. It’s the UK’s largest teaching union taking a clear position against a political party while Zack Polanski has been invited to speak at conference. And these are the people shaping what’s happening in our classrooms. Have a look at this material yourself⬇️