Neil Clark
@NeilClark66
Journalist & author https://www.amazon.co.uk/stores/Neil-Clark/author/B00U314RKA?
Spot on. One set of policies, whoever gets in. Deep discontent throughout the country. Raiding welfare. Increasing the pension age and threatening the triple lock Where is all the money actually going? Wars, interest on govt debt, and the rest into the pockets of big Corp
Yes. And welshing on the state pension- and talking about raising the retirement age again- is the final straw.
Majority of people in the U.K. have seen their economic and/or social contracts with mainstream politics/media/everything broken… …this is the result of that
How on earth do they expect manual workers to work to they are 67 68 and like you say Neil there is a cost of living crisis, but liz Kendal will be ok with her big fat pension
Sums up my thoughts exactly. I would say democracy is not really working. As someone else noted, there are intense arguments between the mainstream parties (and their media side-kicks) over relatively trivial matters but on what they perceive as important they are all the same.
It shouldn’t rise again. And it shouldn’t be rising next April. And how can people save enough when we have a cost of living crisis which NO ONE from the main parties seems interested in tackling.
State pension age rises next April - but when should it rise again? And how can we ensure everyone saves enough in their own pension? The government sets out plans to examine those tricky questions, Zoe Alexander of @PensionsUK_ explains @Moneybox noon @BBCRadio4
The fact that so many people (400k and counting) have signed up to ‘Your Party’ in less than 48 hours shows us the deep level of discontent there is with the existing main parties and the system generally. And rightly so. I can’t say I’m ‘disappointed’ by Labour in govt as I…
Another famous British High St name gone- after 232 years. All very sad.
Farewell WHSmith. For many of of 80s kids, it was a Saturday tradition where you’d spend your pocket money to buy a magazine or a comic, or even a 7 inch single. After 232 years on the British High Street, WHSmith is saying goodbye. The stores will be renamed TGJones. WHSmith…
If the State Pension is just a "benefit" paid out of general taxes, and not an entitlement based your NI contributions, then why is the amount you get in your pension dependent on the number of years you paid in NI contributions? 🤔
And this is from the Daily Telegraph ‘It is not a given that the state should fund the last third of someone’s life, regardless of need’. They are coming for the state pension and the whole concept of ‘retirement’. Yet millions of us have been paying NI contributions for years in…
Yep. An obvious & coordinated effort from all sides. The "influencers" on here, the supposedly conservative ones, are the worst. Trust none of them. They're not your friends.
As I said, they’re trying to pit the young vs the old. It’s utterly disgusting. And where does the ‘a quarter of pensioners are millionaires’ come from’?
From 2 years ago. And because we didn’t protest when they raised the pension age last time, they thought ‘we’ll do it again’. Acquiescence and passivity only means things get worse I’m afraid. It’s emboldened those who want to get rid of the state pension altogether.
Yup. Not nearly enough has been made of the raising of the state pension age from 65 to 67. And they want to raise it still further! We should all have been out protesting on this one like the French. But we weren’t because we’re too divided on the other stuff.
#CEDAWinLAW warned that denying justice to #50sWomen would open the door to dismantling everyone’s right to retirement. Now we see it: the very concept of state-funded later life is under attack. Your mothers, grandmothers, future selves—none are safe if injustice stands.
And so it goes on. Relentless. Is that what we were promised in the Brexit referendum, ‘big cuts’ in the state pension?
We badly need a British Milei. And we should be honest about what that means: big cuts in public sector salaries and the state pension.
It's especially galling since the National Insurance Fund that pays the state pension seems reasonably well funded, with receipts currently exceeding payments by around £14 billion. gov.uk/government/pub…
It's a lie anyway about pension being paid for 1/3 of people's lives...state pension is 67..would have to reach 90 to be paid for last 1/3..few do..some pay in but die in 40s 50s or 60s so don't get a penny..even living to 75 means u only get 8 yrs of pension
And this is from the Daily Telegraph ‘It is not a given that the state should fund the last third of someone’s life, regardless of need’. They are coming for the state pension and the whole concept of ‘retirement’. Yet millions of us have been paying NI contributions for years in…
As I’ve said the idea that the state pension is ‘unsustainable’ is being seeded relentlessly. By ‘free-market’ think-tankers, columnists politicians, pundits, social media ‘influencers’. Every day, every hour of the day.
PENSIONS - Stating the bloody obvious, pension age may need to rise to 80. ▪️ONS - says UK population will rise by 5 million in just 7 years. not from births, it’s entirely due to mass migration. Migrants are a net cost, not a net benefit ▪️UK debt - £2.7 TRILLION in debt…
I saw an acolyte of the extreme centre retweeting the anti-pensioner propaganda and didn't realise until now it was the beginning of an elite campaign. (It seems appropriate that 'acolyte' means "a person assisting a priest in a religious service or procession".)
We don't live in a functioning democracy and we are not represented. Living conditions will continue to deteriorate & more will be immiserated unless we change our governance and get people involved in parliament chosen through sortition, to establish a people-led democracy.