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Newman Noggs said:
I think this blaming previous generations for their "selfishness" and conservatism is simply people looking for someone to blame because they haven't got what they want now. It's a tale as old as time.
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Definitely true, although it's worth mentioning that these things are often competing with each other. If you're struggling to get on the housing ladder, it's irritating to see the government doing their best to prop up the house prices of someone who bought a house in the 70s that's now worth a million. Or when things like austerity aren't evenly distributed through the generations, so things like the triple lock pension are ring fenced against cuts, but provisions for all sorts of other groups are cut.

There's also the simple demographic reality that the most numerous generation are retiring or about the retire, and you need enough working-age people to pay for their pensions (because the state pension isn't really a pension in the sense that the money that people put in was spent when they were putting it in). It then also becomes slightly ironic that they become the generation that votes most strongly for restrictions on allowing working-age people to come to the UK to contribute to the taxes that will pay for their retirement.
 
I'm With Stupid said:
It then also becomes slightly ironic that they become the generation that votes most strongly for restrictions on allowing working-age people to come to the UK to contribute to the taxes that will pay for their retirement.
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The reason they vote for restrictions (and are not against immigration per se) is because it's an obvious unsustainable pyramid scheme unless those coming in are a) high money generators, generating sufficient tax income to contribute to existing public sector and state pensions as well as providing for their own and b) young so that they do it for a long time before getting any back.

You import low paid workers you do neither and simply require more and more workers. It's unsustainable.

You are right in as much as successive governments and local authorities have done a Robert Maxwell and plundered the money that wasn't paid in wages to public sector workers and should have been set aside. Arguably, the difference being that it has (generally) been used for the benefit of all rather than lining the pockets of a fat crook.

One set of people who aren't to blame for this predicament is public sector pensioners.
 
babyape said:
It’s going well…..
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I have a strong suspicion that all this controversy and bitching actually plays right into this channel's hands. I suspect we will see Johnson and co give tacit support at some point too with some exclusives.
 
Didsbury Dave said:
I have a strong suspicion that all this controversy and bitching actually plays right into this channel's hands. I suspect we will see Johnson and co give tacit support at some point too with some exclusives.
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They already have - Dowden has criticised companies that pulled advertising from GB News
 
bluethrunthru said:
Ha ha ha - I gave it until Xmas - I really shouldn't be so generous

www.express.co.uk

Andrew Neil announces break from GB News - two weeks after launch

ANDREW NEIL announced at the end of his self-titled news show on Thursday he'd be departing GB News for a break from presenting duties - less than two weeks after the network launched.
www.express.co.uk www.express.co.uk
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He's only off to do his mandatory elearning, you know what a ball ache that is. Either that or he is doing a course at night school on how to produce a TV news show.
 
journolud said:
He's only off to do his mandatory elearning, you know what a ball ache that is. Either that or he is doing a course at night school on how to produce a TV news show.
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Probably got to go back to France to meet some residency/tax requirements
 
bluethrunthru said:
Shouldn't Offcom be taking an interest in this BS ? If those views were expressed on the Beeb the supporters of GB News would he having a twitter storm of protests
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a twitter storm of protests, how, if nobody watches it
 
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