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[SWP's back]

It is U25s in some situations, like young persons' railcards.

We’re moving slightly off topic but I’d have no issue with City keeping this cheaper for them as well (under 25’s).

 

[BimboBob]

Well they (even now) have a lower income than every age group aged between 25 and 65.

You’re acting as if they are loaded and cash rich just because a lot of them own their own homes. I’m guessing you don’t like them doing so as it was Thatcher than massively increased the number of people that wanted to be property owners.

I expect Wolfie owns his own home, has a pension and has a few bob stashed away. It's usually those sort of socialists that complain the loudest.

Fight the fight brother. No, no...I'm ok up here actually, in my ivory tower. Carry on.

 

[BobKowalski]

She’s a racist prick.

She’s also thick as pig shit.

You’re a charmer.

She’s neither as it happens but then this thread has scraped along the bottom of the sewer for much of its existence so my hopes for a more enlightened debate than the above were not high.

Toodles.

 

[The perfect fumble]

Can you post a link to that study (remember to ensure it’s about income and not capital assets), it’s not as though an OAP can sell 1/30th of their kitchen to pay for a season ticket.

Here’s the actual table of mean income by age demographic:

I can’t believe you’re so far down defending the OP subject that you’re now suggesting OAP concessions should be scrapped.

My point stands, under 18’s and OAP’s don’t have an earned income as a rule although looking at the table I’d include under 25’s rather than stopping them at 18.

Either way, it’s not remotely similar to making something more expensive for one race or another.

I'm not suggesting OAP concessions should be scrapped, nor am I suggesting they should be means tested, though for reasons too long winded to go in to here.

Nevertheless, when you slice and dice using demographics the propensity to screw up is there, the level of heat generated by that slicing and dicing seems to be directly related to the nature of the demographic, think about the oceans of media coverage and heat generated over welfare recipients/scroungers in the Daily Mail, where this Corbyn rally story appeared, compared to the coverage that paper gives to tax evasion. This storm in a teacup non-story only has legs because of its race element and because it slides right in there with the relentless 24/7 negative coverage that Labour and particularly Corbyn receives in the right wing gutter press.

 

[kevin horlocks wand]

You are right in suggesting that once the baby boomers disappear in to the great unknown with there mortgages paid, their index linked pensions and so on, the next generation of pensioners will return to the norm of being basically skint.

How can that be the case?

But Tony Blair told us that if EVERYONE went to university then we would all be rich , surely the investment we all made then to allow all our kids to go to university means the next generation of pensioners will be rich and we have no worries.

Oh wait, sorry must have been another one of those Blair projects that was complete crap and we are still paying for now and will be for years to come .

 

[SWP's back]

This storm in a teacup non-story only has legs because of its race element and because it slides right in there with the relentless 24/7 negative coverage that Labour and particularly Corbyn receives in the right wing gutter press.

The threads only made it this far as you’ve been excusing it.

If you’d have said “silly move but if that’s the worse thing happens this year then Labour will have done well” then everyone would have already gotten bored and moved back to the Barm/Trump thread.

 

[The perfect fumble]

The threads only made it this far as you’ve been excusing it.

If you’d have said “silly move but if that’s the worse thing happens this year then Labour will have done well” then everyone would have already gotten bored and moved back to the Barm/Trump thread.

Yeah, that's how it went down .

 

[KS55]

City already has a pricing structure based on a crude demographic, it's not a criticism, all clubs do as far as I'm aware, but like any slice and dice pricing structure it throws up anomalies. How many over 65s park their Range Rover in the Etihad car park and then swipe their half price season ticket at the gate?

Yes, but it is the racial aspect that makes me uncomfortable. I agree with giving disadvantaged groups some help, so the Rooney rule is fine, provided appointments are made on merit. I can see no reason why a parliamentary candidates list should not have a Rooney Rule, but should a party have a BAME only list, like the women only list? I'm conflcted.

 

[The perfect fumble]

How can that be the case?

But Tony Blair told us that if EVERYONE went to university then we would all be rich , surely the investment we all made then to allow all our kids to go to university means the next generation of pensioners will be rich and we have no worries.

Oh wait, sorry must have been another one of those Blair projects that was complete crap and we are still paying for now and will be for years to come .

I hear you! Thank God he's gone and we've got Corbyn :-)

 

[kevin horlocks wand]

I hear you! Thank God he's gone and we've got Corbyn :-)

To be fair we have nothing - May , Corbyn Yoda for the Lib Dems - all shite.