Wolf 🐺@WorldByWolf
Boomers had the single best standard of living across their entire lives than any generation in history. Free university, affordable housing, the NICE economic years, and now the triple lock on pensions.
They are, in aggregate, the single most selfish generation ever. I can’t afford to own my own house, I have massive university debts, I live in a time of high youth unemployment and stagnant economic growth, and @RobertJenrick now has the temerity to suggest I want to pay more in tax to fund gold plaited pensions for the richest generation ever.
I know exactly how Reform came to the decision to keep the triple lock. Farage is actually instinctively against it but he’s seen the polling that shows getting rid of the triple lock would lead to a flood of voters going to the Tories or Labour.
I hope Restore Britain actually have the guts to level with people and say we can’t afford to maintain the triple lock and instead commit to some combination of raising the retirement age, capping the rate of increase, introducing a degree of means testing, and actually in the long term getting the government out of the pensions business and shifting that responsibility onto employers and employees.