Rishi Sunak

Brewster's millions said:
You’ve conveniently, or erroneously, forgotten about the triple lock.

Average earnings are currently growing at a faster rate than inflation, and that situation appears likely to persist over the coming year.

So your pension will increase at a faster pace than your cost of living, and any further decline in inflation relative to wage growth will make you better off. So falling inflation will in fact make you better off in the current situation.

Also, the point isn’t solely about pensioners - across the economy, earnings are currently growing at a faster rate than inflation. When the opposite was the case, and inflation was higher, you were all jumping up and down complaining about the real terms decline in income. When real terms growth is restored, you fail to recognise the change.

Frankly, some of you lefties need to look at the bigger picture and not think only about yourself and your own personal situation.
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If a guy is telling you he's less better off then you can probably take it at face value that he is. Not try and gaslight with statistical manipulation that would make even the Tories blush.
 
Brewster's millions said:
You’ve conveniently, or erroneously, forgotten about the triple lock.

Average earnings are currently growing at a faster rate than inflation, and that situation appears likely to persist over the coming year.

So your pension will increase at a faster pace than your cost of living, and any further decline in inflation relative to wage growth will make you better off. So falling inflation will in fact make you better off in the current situation.

Also, the point isn’t solely about pensioners - across the economy, earnings are currently growing at a faster rate than inflation. When the opposite was the case, and inflation was higher, you were all jumping up and down complaining about the real terms decline in income. When real terms growth is restored, you fail to recognise the change.

Frankly, some of you lefties need to look at the bigger picture and not think only about yourself and your own personal situation.
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Unfortunately, the triple lock only covers part of my income. And the earnings element, again, is in arrears. My increase in April reflects events in the 12 months up to summer 2023, as far as the earnings element is concerned.

A fall in inflation is a 'good thing' but it does not make me 'better off' it makes me less 'worse off' than it would have been had it remained higher.

As for the 'big picture' - words fail me. It's people worrying about trivialities like the colour of the fucking passport that have screwed this country's economy and its standing in the world. So-called 'patriots' who can't see beyond the end of their noses because of their absurd obsessions. Most of these people are Tories or fellow travellers.
 
Brewster's millions said:
You’ve conveniently, or erroneously, forgotten about the triple lock.

Average earnings are currently growing at a faster rate than inflation, and that situation appears likely to persist over the coming year.

So your pension will increase at a faster pace than your cost of living, and any further decline in inflation relative to wage growth will make you better off. So falling inflation will in fact make you better off in the current situation.

Also, the point isn’t solely about pensioners - across the economy, earnings are currently growing at a faster rate than inflation. When the opposite was the case, and inflation was higher, you were all jumping up and down complaining about the real terms decline in income. When real terms growth is restored, you fail to recognise the change.

Frankly, some of you lefties need to look at the bigger picture and not think only about yourself and your own personal situation.
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Whether you look at the rise in UK real wages under Labour (until 2008) and what's happened since under the Tories (one good year partly catching up with last year), or at the OECD average increase since the crash, the Tories have made you worse off. Most of the sectors where wages have outstripped inflation are those which had a lot of EU workers pre-Brexit (transport, hospitality etc).

Even the triple lock doesn't take account of the inflation increases in basic costs of living (housing, food, fuel) which are higher than the inflation average.
 
kaz7 said:
Trying to say they have cleared the backlog , gaslighting cunts, they would have been screaming that before the holidays as i am damn sure it hasnt happened in the last week , new year same fucking lying bastards
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They have been fast tracking decisions at an alarming rate from certain countries for a couple of months - the ones which you know there is war and /or danger for the average person.

They have just become homeless instead of asylum seekers, and from a Home Office to an LA burden.
 
Corky said:
They have been fast tracking decisions at an alarming rate from certain countries for a couple of months - the ones which you know there is war and /or danger for the average person.

They have just become homeless instead of asylum seekers, and from a Home Office to an LA burden.
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The cunts are obsessed with immigration to an irrational extent when you actually look at how important the issue is to swing voters (quite). They’ve lost their fucking minds.
 
gordondaviesmoustache said:
The cunts are obsessed with immigration to an irrational extent when you actually look at how important the issue is to swing voters (quite). They’ve lost their fucking minds.
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I think it’s because immigration is an easy concept for the assorted fuckwits to understand.
Discuss economics, public spending, and the effects of interest rates and inflation etc, and watch people glaze over. Sadly these are the things that affect them the most, but don‘t get the understanding or attention.
But talk about foreigners coming here ‘illegally’, ‘invasions‘ and attacks on our culture and our women and children and the old blood starts boiling and the gut reactions kick in.
As you say, irrational, but you can see how important it is to this collection of washed up, clapped out no hopers when they have nothing else.
 
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