Mrs KP

Science Teacher, Chemistry specialism, forever learner

[Robert HJ Marshall @roberthenryjohn]

#RetirementinBritain
Why are workers in Britain reduced to poverty when they retire., after making conpulsery contributions from their wages for fifty years, to receive a state pension. . . that is unable to support a decent life, and to carry on paying their escalating bills?

[Sandy Tregent @SandyofSuffolk]

Just to put things in perspective.

The average state pension in Spain is higher than in the UK.

The cost of living in Spain is 33% lower than in the UK.

Spain's equivalent to our council tax is about a tenth of what we pay in the UK. And they get daily bin collections.

Where's our money going?

[Robert Abel @rj_abel]

Jeremy Hunt, a man worth £14M, says pensioners have had “very generous pension increases.

When cost of living has risen by far more than most pension increases. Many pensioners are still choosing between heating and eating.

If this is “generous”, what would neglect look like?

[Robert Abel @rj_abel]

A full-time worker on the UK National Living Wage takes home around £18,600 a year, while a pensioner on the full State Pension receives about £12,548. That leaves many retirees expected to live on thousands less than the lowest-paid workers.

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

For every £6 pint you buy, the pub owner is left with just 13p. Yet the government trousers £2.44 in tax.

[Annie1971 @anniebev6]

If you are on benefits and you can afford to buy cigarettes, alcohol and gamble then you are receiving too much money #gmb

[Robert HJ Marshall @roberthenryjohn]

The whole country should be ashamed. . . Britain's pensioner's 'deserve better' !

[Robert HJ Marshall @roberthenryjohn]

This is outragious inequality. . . .
The whole of Britain should be ashamed, especially Royalty!

[David__Osland @David__Osland]

Many MPs tell us that the current state pension age is 'unsustainable'. Which is odd, really, given that they can claim parliamentary pensions as soon as they turn 55.

[Jen k 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @Jenny_1884]

The law needs to be changed to declassify a Pension as a benefit.

I find it grotesque that having paid into a system all your working life that it’s deemed as a handout rather than something you deserve for working hard all your life.

Benefits are for people that don’t work

Pensions are for people who worked hard & earned their pension.

A pension is not a benefit.

[Peter Hodges @punter05]

Jeremy Hunt on Sunday with Laura Kuennsberg "pensioners have had very generous pension increases". What fucking planet is this idiot living on? The cost of living has gone up by £100 a week and pensioner's got £11. Is it any wonder nobody trusts a politician?

[Callum Lyon @CallumLyon]

At this point prices in The UK are just made up:

What do you mean a return train to London is £140?

How is a weekend away in England £600? I can go abroad for a week for that!

Why is a house that was £700 a month a few years ago now £1500 a month?

How is a full tank of fuel now costing more than £100?

Why is my car insurance going up every year on the same car with no claims?

How is 2 carrier bags of shopping costing me nearly £100?

We're honestly done aren't we.

[Jen k 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @Jenny_1884]

Who else agrees that EVERY benefits claimant who is able bodied & healthy should be made to do community work in their local area as payback for the free money they receive from hardworking taxpayers?

If they refuse then benefits should stop.

[geoff @VictorMeldrew17]

I’m 78 years of age and seen many governments some good some bad but I can honestly say that THIS government is without ANY doubt the worst, most corrupt, most anti British, criminal loving, Muslim appeasing that this country has ever witnessed.
The people should rebel against it

[SightBringer @_The_Prophet__]

⚡️The middle class is where the system hides its extraction because the middle class still believes obedience will be rewarded.

The poor are visibly dependent.

The rich are structurally insulated.

The middle class is trapped inside the moral contract of responsibility.

Work hard. Pay taxes. Buy insurance. Save for retirement. Don’t cheat. Don’t default. Don’t complain. Don’t take too much. Don’t fall behind. Keep your credit clean. Keep your kids on track. Keep your career moving. Keep the mortgage paid. Keep smiling.

Then the system taxes that obedience.

The middle class is easy to extract from because its income is visible, its behavior is predictable, and its fear of falling is powerful.

W-2 income can be captured before it ever reaches the bank account.

Property taxes attach to shelter. Healthcare attaches to employment. College aid disappears once income crosses thresholds. Tax credits phase out. Professional licensing, insurance, childcare, commuting, housing, and retirement all become toll booths.

The rich escape through structure.

The poor survive through assistance.

The middle pays retail.

That is why it feels like the most expensive place to live. It is the zone where you make enough to be denied help and not enough to buy freedom. You are too “successful” for sympathy and too exposed for security.

This is also why the middle-class anger is going to grow. These people are the stabilizing class. They follow rules, raise kids, pay bills, fund municipalities, staff companies, buy homes, carry insurance pools, and keep institutions functioning. When they start realizing the bargain no longer compounds, political trust breaks hard.

The deepest betrayal is that income stopped being the path to safety. Asset ownership became the path to safety. The middle class earns income to buy assets, but asset prices keep moving away because monetary policy, debt, housing restriction, financialization, and investor demand pushed the ladder higher. So the worker runs faster while the asset-owner floats.

That is the hidden class split.

The middle class is not poor enough to receive the system’s mercy and not rich enough to command its architecture. It is the payer class. The compliance class. The full-price class.

Bottom line:

The middle class is expensive because it is where responsibility gets monetized.

The system extracts most efficiently from people who still believe playing by the rules will save them.

[half man/half mattress @the_mantress]

@ejames500 @Keir_Starmer @RachelReevesMP @ZiaYusufUK @Nigel_Farage @GBNEWS @MichelleDewbs I'd also add. Nobody on benefits should receive more than the equivalent full time employee on minimum wage I.e £24,784.50/yr

If that's what a worker has to pay for accomodation, food, bills, travel etc then someone claiming benefits should be able to live on that 🤷🏼‍♂️

[💕Elle J 💕#JustSaying 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧 @ejames500]

£12,570 is the amount you can earn before you pay tax. So if you get more than this in benefits shouldn't you also pay tax. @Keir_Starmer @RachelReevesMP @ZiaYusufUK @Nigel_Farage
@GBNEWS
@MichelleDewbs why should working people be worse off than those not working?

[Thrilla the Gorilla @ThrillaRilla369]

The middle class is the most expensive place to live, and no one talks about it. Lower income households get assistance. The wealthy use tax strategies and loopholes. But the middle class pays full taxes, full tuition, full healthcare, full everything. So you work 50 hours a week just to stay in the same place and fund everyone’s life except yours.

[Darren Grimes @darrengrimes]

I don’t want to live in a country where a boy can die by drowning in his own blood because the police cared more about arresting an alleged racist.

I don’t want to live in a country where a female police officer can have seven shades of sh*t kicked out of her without punishment.