The full UK State Pension is now worth around £12,548 a year. That's less than half the earnings of someone working full-time on the National Minimum Wage, despite many pensioners paying taxes and National Insurance for 40, 50 or even 60 years.
Yet every time the Treasury needs money, the same voices appear demanding the Triple Lock be scrapped.
Why?
State pension spending is forecast at around £154 billion this year, but that supports over 13 million pensioners, many of whom rely on it as their primary income. Meanwhile, billions continue to disappear into failed projects, government waste, bureaucracy, consultants, quangos and policies that deliver little value to ordinary taxpayers.
The Triple Lock isn't some gold-plated luxury. It exists because politicians allowed the State Pension to fall behind for decades. Even today, a full State Pension is barely above the poverty line and is nowhere near a typical working wage.
If politicians want to save money, start with waste, inefficiency and failed spending programmes.
Leave pensioners alone.
They worked, they paid in, they built this country and they deserve dignity in retirement, not another raid on their income.
@KemiBadenoch I think @KemiBadenoch is so brilliant, I just wish she would team up with @RupertLowe10 and @RestoreBritain_ as I just can’t bring myself to vote Conservative ever again. If she were to team up with Rupert, they’d be formidable 🥰
Morning so its a day for voting!! As I travel the UK and people moan about everything especially politics & what's wrong in the Country. I say to them who did you vote for last time and 90% of the people say "Oh no I don't vote it doesn't make any difference anyway?" So without getting political if you want to see changes you need to vote if not just accept what happens. On the other hand I have had so many promises from politician's over they years of changes that would be made concerning mental health guess what? I have not heard of any changes for the better. And so life goes on! Have a good day
@koshercockney@_ConnieShaw WTF?!?! Can’t actually believe what I heard from that guy. It’s listening to the absolute crap coming from this guy that makes me so worried for this country.
I wish people would genuinely fuck off a great deal more! I’ve got 3 dogs….if you don’t like dogs then avoid the countryside and stay away from dog owners homes! Dogs and cats (I have 2 of them too!) are amazing for health and wellbeing and reduce stress, dogs also aid exercise….also if yon want to write a comment about why I’m wrong….then to save me time FUCK OFF IN ADVANCE!
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‘The Bank of England has been totally captured by the progressive left and this is just more evidence of it!’
Rafe Heydel-Mankoo slams the Bank of England for erasing Winston Churchill from five pound banknotes, adding ‘it is a war on our history!’
Jane Austen celebrated a woman’s prerogative to choose a man for emotional companionship and devotion. This is one of the most foundational aspects of Western gender equality.
Turner captured the feeling of being at sea, in awe of the ocean’s power and turbulence. Like other Romantics, he elevated not religious dogma or social convention but each individual's *subjective feelings*.
Turing embodied the spirit of scientific endeavour for national progress, saving us all by cracking the code. And his tragic demise reminds us of the crimes of past illiberalism. Churchill rallied a nation under existential threat.
Brilliantly chosen, they represent British history. These figures form a part of our "imagined community", our shared sense of history, who we are.
"Social cohesion" cannot be built by memos. It comes through story-telling, rituals and celebrations, including our everyday bank notes.
So it's a real shame that Britain may be scrapping historical greats, for owls.
The removal of historical figures such as Winston Churchill from English banknotes may appear trivial to some.
But it isn’t.
It matters far more than many people realise.
Because what we are witnessing is not an isolated decision about banknote design.
It is part of something much larger: a slow but relentless erosion of our national culture, identity, and collective memory.
As Professor Frank Furedi has observed, we are living through what he calls “the War Against the Past.”
Across the Western world, an assortment of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion bureaucrats, radical activists, and increasingly compliant public institutions are engaged in a cultural project that seeks to delegitimise our national histories and strip away the symbols that once anchored our collective identity and memory.
The pattern is now familiar.
Statues are toppled.
Historical figures are reframed as morally suspect or “divisive”.
Public institutions rename buildings, spaces, Tube lines.
School and university reading lists are “decolonised”.
The past itself is rewritten to emphasise only its sins while ignoring its achievements.
Even the quiet symbolism of everyday life — the images on our currency, the names of our streets, the monuments in our squares — is steadily edited and sanitised.
What replaces these symbols is rarely anything meaningful.
Instead of historically significant figures who helped shape the nation, we are offered neutral, universal imagery that stands for almost nothing at all — landscapes, wildlife, abstractions.
On the surface this seems harmless.
But symbolism matters.
For centuries, historical figures served as cultural signposts, reminders of the history, struggles and achievements that shaped the nation and its people.
Remove those signposts, and something subtle but important begins to change.
The past becomes distant. Then contested. And then disposable.
Gradually, the story of a nation — its triumphs, failures, and defining moments — is hollowed out.
In its place emerges a new idea of national identity that is deliberately thin: one that defines Britain not through its history or traditions but through the abstract celebration of diversity itself.
In other words, the only thing that is meant to define us is that we have no defining identity at all.
The endpoint of this cultural project is not inclusion but historical amnesia, or cultural erasure.
A society that is detached from its past, uncertain of its traditions, and unsure of what binds it together.
This is what Sir Roger Scruton meant when he wrote: “A society that loses its memory loses its identity.”
And that loss happens gradually, through thousands of seemingly small decisions — a statue removed here, a curriculum altered there, a historical figure quietly replaced on a banknote.
Each individual change may appear insignificant.
But taken together they represent something far more profound: the slow disconnection of a people from their own history and collective memory.
A people who no longer really know who “we” are.
I doubt the bureaucrats who made this decision at the Bank of England fully grasp the cultural significance of what they are doing.
But intention is not the point. The effect is what matters.
When we remove the symbols of our past, we further weaken the very foundations of our identity.
Or Orwell warned: “The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.”
This is what is happening and accelerating around us.
This is what Furedi meant by the “War Against Our Past”.
And this is why it really matters.
Not because of one banknote.
But because of the much larger cultural story it represents.
Just listened to a British mum break down in tears on LBC.
Three children.
Facing eviction.
At the end of her rope and she doesn’t know where to turn.
You could hear the panic in her voice. Not anger, not politics — just a mum terrified she’s about to lose the roof over her children’s heads.
That’s the reality for a lot of people in this country right now. People working, trying their best, paying their taxes, doing everything they were told was the “right way” to live.
And yet they’re the ones falling through the cracks.
Now here’s where the madness kicks in.
Because in the same country, with the same taxpayer money, we have politicians floating the idea of giving £40,000 to illegal immigrants to leave the UK voluntarily.
Let’s just pause and read that phrase again.
Illegal immigrant.
The clue is literally in the first word — illegal.
Someone who has entered or remained in the country unlawfully… and the brilliant solution from our political class is apparently to hand them forty thousand pounds and politely ask them to leave.
You couldn’t make it up.
So let’s get this straight.
A British mum is crying on national radio because she can’t keep a roof over her kids’ heads…
…but if you arrive in the country illegally, the big brain policy idea is to hand you £40,000 of taxpayers’ money as a goodbye present.
Do not pass Go.
Do not collect £200.
Except now the rule seems to be: Do collect £40,000.
No wonder people are furious.
No wonder people feel the system is upside down.
This isn’t about hating anyone. It’s about basic fairness.
If the country can find tens of thousands of pounds to hand out to people who shouldn’t be here in the first place, then how on earth can we not find the support to stop a British mother and her children becoming homeless?
Where are the priorities?
Because from the outside it looks like the people running this country are completely detached from the reality most of us are living in.
People working hard, paying taxes, trying to raise families — while decisions made in Westminster feel like they come from another planet entirely.
Listening to that poor woman today was heartbreaking.
And if our politicians had even a fraction of the common sense most ordinary people have, they’d realise something very simple:
A government’s first responsibility should always be to the people already living in the country.
But judging by policies like this… that basic principle seems to have been completely forgotten.
And that’s exactly why so many people feel like this country is being run by people who haven’t got the faintest clue what life is actually like outside Westminster.
🚨WOW: Mum breaks down in tears on live radio call
“I have to wait until bailiffs evict me and my 3 children, but if I came to the country illegally I might get £40K… it’s not fair”
Britain is at breaking point.
JUST WONDERING HOW MOMS are supposed to work 9-5, drop the kids off at school at 8 AM, pick them up by 3 PM, stay on top of school activities, meal prep, cook dinner, keep the house clean, do the laundry, run the kids to extracurricular activities, climb the corporate ladder, save sick days for when the kids are sick, be a good friend, daughter, and partner, all while trying to take care of their own body and mental health…