bluethrunthru
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From whats come out last couple of days any younger Bluemooners need to act at the next GE or this bunch of cunts will price you out of GP visits and steal your state pension
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Didn't you read the memo? People want to work longer...
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People who won't need to work until their pensionable age increasing the age for those that will.
dave_blue12
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Perfect! As life expectancy falls*, a double whammy on reducing the pension bill. More cash to spaff around at Tory donors.
* consequence of creeping privatisation of the NHS.
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I'm really fucked off and upset at this.
My Dad died at 66 when he should have been enjoying his last years.
Work till your 68 what a fucking joke.
My Dad died at 66 when he should have been enjoying his last years.
Work till your 68 what a fucking joke.
bluethrunthru
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Fred_Quimby
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The crime is not that we have such a corrupt government in charge; the crime is we can do f..k all about it for another 20+ months.
Feel your pain-my dad died at 66 just a couple of months after retiring-he started work at 15 and worked a 6 day week most of his life-bet the Tories loved him
journolud
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And the bigger crime to come is that despite it all there is no guarantee that we will do anything about it when the opportunity arises. People have short memories.
marco
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just been watching a video of the UK debt mountain, the amount of interest we pay each month is stagering let alone the debt, index linked interest which rises with inflation going to the banks which by the way are the chums of the tory party, in simple terms were paying credit card debt with another credit card and when the ballance of the card is reached we put that one aside and get another
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This isn't as big an issue as debt held in the private sector, i. e. Household and company debt.
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Given how much that address and it's tenants poison and undermine the country, nothing would surprise me about it's funding, if we ever managed to find out about it.
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Is it me or did it use to be 60?, sooner or later it will be 70
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It's definitely an issue when said debt is being raised against high interest rates. The cost of debt is always going to be considerably more impactful than the amount, especially in the wake of what is looking like a recession.
The biggest question I have is despite supposed relative austerity we still have record levels of public spending so where is all the money going?
Nearly £1.1tn will be spent by the government this year. As a percentage of GDP that's 50% more than the Thatcher years and 10% more than the Blair years. During COVID, spending was beyond any value since the late 1940's.
Why is everything on its arse and where is the money going?
The Light Was Yellow Sir
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To ferry companies without any boats, to PPE companies without any PPE, to accountancy firms where they borrow your watch, tell you the time, put ‘improved productivity’ on a PowerPoint and charge almost every government department millions for the privilege.It's definitely an issue when said debt is being raised against high interest rates. The cost of debt is always going to be considerably more impactful than the amount, especially in the wake of what is looking like a recession.
The biggest question I have is despite supposed relative austerity we still have record levels of public spending so where is all the money going?
Nearly £1.1tn will be spent by the government this year. As a percentage of GDP that's 50% more than the Thatcher years and 10% more than the Blair years. During COVID, spending was beyond any value since the late 1940's.
Why is everything on its arse and where is the money going?
And MP’s pay has risen 11 times in the last 13 years so it’s about 33% more than it was in 2010 so not victims of austerity although we were supposedly ‘all in it together’…
Their expenses have similarly risen as have their subsidies. What you didn’t realise, if you clapped during Covid, was that the only true key workers, as reflected in public sector pay awards, were members of parliament!!!
Paying African countries millions to not take ‘illegals’, paying the French millions to try to keep the rabid racists quiet.
Subsidising private companies to ‘run’ public services, paying train companies not to run trains, undercutting the NHS by paying the private sector to cherry pick simple procedures to perform and feathering the nests of people they view as being of a similar ilk.
The most corrupt government of the last 150 years and yet 24% still say they’d vote for them, which highlights how bolloxed the country really is.
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bluethrunthru
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Trusted with the economy......................
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It's definitely an issue when said debt is being raised against high interest rates. The cost of debt is always going to be considerably more impactful than the amount, especially in the wake of what is looking like a recession.
The biggest question I have is despite supposed relative austerity we still have record levels of public spending so where is all the money going?
Nearly £1.1tn will be spent by the government this year. As a percentage of GDP that's 50% more than the Thatcher years and 10% more than the Blair years. During COVID, spending was beyond any value since the late 1940's.
Why is everything on its arse and where is the money going?
I said not as big a problem. By taking it as seriously as the Tories want you to do, you buy into the narrative that we can no longer afford decent public services and the only way out is mass privatisation.
Household and company debt represents a huge risk, more companies going into administration and liquidation, job losses and less disposable income for people to pay their bills or make discretionary purchases to keep the economy ticking over.
Covid was a war time event in peace time and required a colossal effort, unfortunately it is difficult to get value for money when their is a pervasive attitude of private sector knows best and a culture of political graft in the case of the PPE VIP fastlane.