The more I learn about people, the more I love my dogs. Basically, that sums me up.
I'm watching my country fall apart and desperately hoping for change.
@Keir_Starmer Great move calling normal everyday people far right and thugs. You're really fighting hard for your place as PM aren't you ? Then you wonder why you are the most hated man in the UK ... delusional idiot
๐จThe state pension & triple lock is the hot topic of the day โ but almost no one is discussing what actually happened and why weโre in this mess. Instead, governments are dividing older and younger generations with perverse gaslighting. Hereโs the truth:
National Insurance was explicitly sold for generations as a contributory scheme. You paid your โstampsโ to build entitlement to your state pension โ exactly like road tax was introduced and meant to fund the Road Fund for building and maintaining roads.
Both started with a clear promise: pay in for a specific purpose.
Then governments quietly broke the ring-fencing/promise. Road hypothecation ended in 1937. NI became mostly pay-as-you-go โ todayโs workers funding todayโs pensioners, with surpluses spent on the priorities of the day (NHS, welfare, whatever suited the government).
Why are we here now?
โข Collapsing birth rates since the 1960s + longer lifespans.
โข Mass immigration that failed to fix the worker-to-retiree ratio as promised.
โข Decades of political short-termism: treating the National Insurance Fund like a slush fund instead of properly ring-fencing or investing it for the future. See Singapore for the gold standard.
Now the gaslighting ramps up: โNo one paid into a pot.โ โItโs just a transfer from poorer young to wealthier old.โ โThe triple lock is unaffordable.โ
This is classic deception by government. They collected contributions under one set of expectations, spent the money elsewhere, then rebranded the promise when demographics caught up. Pensioners who worked 40-50 years and upheld their side of the intergenerational contract are suddenly the villains.
Itโs perverse. Instead of admitting โwe broke the funding model,โ politicians pit generations against each other. The young arenโt subsidising the old out of nowhere โ theyโre paying into the same broken system their elders did.
Honour the existing promises to those who already paid in. Cut the real waste first (illegal migration costs, foreign aid, Net Zero subsidies, welfare bloat). Then reform properly for the future: move towards individual accounts with actual investment and returns โ like Singaporeโs CPF.
Stop the divisive nonsense. Fix the root causes instead of rewriting history and turning the country against itself.
Feel free to engage๐๐ฝ
#TripleLock #StatePension
@ReemAmirIbrahim For years as a child growing up, you and thousands of others have benefited from all those who paid taxes all their lives. Those pensioners taxes have also supported the pensions that came before them. That's how society takes care of their elders. So stop the poor me whinging.
@PoliticoForYou The guy in the bunker was an antisemite and did his best to terminate the Jewish community, I would say the left and a proportion of a certain idealogy and the Green Party are more akin to that man. Perhaps your time would be better spent reviewing the history of 1930's to 1945
@StevenJonMiller No... Reform party will. Reform tell us they want the best for Britain and British people. Therefore, if it comes to forming a coalition with other parties to achieve this, & to keep a left coalition/party out, and they refuse ... who would be letting the people down due to ego ?
@10DowningStreet@vonderleyen Starmer can't run the country, so he runs to mummy Vonderlier and hangs off her Apron strings, sucks his thumb, and asks her to tell him what to do ... pathetic, weak, traitorous little man
@BROKENBRITAIN0 Streets, cul-de-sacs, Avenues... everybody dec out their front gardens, trees, bushes.. anything that stands still, with lights, wreaths decorations and bunting... have mulled wine, mince pie parties in the streets. You can have your own Christmas light switch on๐