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[I'm With Stupid]

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.

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.

 

[Newman Noggs]

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.

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]

It’s going well…..

 

[East Level 2]

State retirement age is simply the earliest age at which state retirement pension becomes payable. As you say, this is currently 67.

state pension age is 66 for me - Born in 1957.

 

[BlueHammer85]

state pension age is 66 for me - Born in 1957.

is the state pension enough to live on ?

just out of interest.

 

[Didsbury Dave]

It’s going well…..

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.

 

[The perfect fumble]

state pension age is 66 for me - Born in 1957.

Snap!

April 1957

 

[journolud]

is the state pension enough to live on ?

just out of interest.

You’re kidding. A Prime Minister’s salary is apparently not enough to live on…

 

[Hamann Pineapple]

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.

Read a good one the other day describing the channel as "Wayne's World for people with brain injuries"

 

[bluethrunthru]

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.

They already have - Dowden has criticised companies that pulled advertising from GB News