Dave Brooks

Head of Policy at Broadstone. Basically-a talkative technical pensions geek prone to whimsy & typos. Also a pensions stalwart don't you know...

[Dave Brooks @PensionsDave]

Before I was pensions dave I was in a band. Best days ever (sorry pensions world). Here’s our band camp page if you would ever like to have a nose (ear... you know what I mean). https://t.co/esnA3neyGH

[Dave Brooks @PensionsDave]

@John_Stepek Correct.

[Dave Brooks @PensionsDave]

@NJM71 The big issue when framing this is that a view to end triple lock isn’t the same as a view to no longer increase the state pension.

I am sure most people who get upset about it think that. To be clear I don’t like the TL but also think the state pension should go up. Crazy.

[Dave Brooks @PensionsDave]

@boardsofcanada bah! So close. Here’s the apocalyptic album cover you could have had. (So excited by the way.) @bocpages

[Cleo @Cleomoos]

@kinpatsukenshi album cover potential

[PAW (Peter) @Peter88902568]

Erm, I think we know a ceiling toaster when we see one, thanks very much.

[Rebecca Aguilar (on Blue Sky & LinkedIn) @RebeccaAguilar]

Everyone COPY this video, share it far and wide. Paramount Skydance billionaire baby David Ellison can’t handle that Stephen Colbert is getting millions of views . @Youtube we will cancel our subscription as we did when we dumped @paramountplus.

[James Hogg @JamesAHogg2]

The great Paul Whitehouse is 68 years old today, which means I am obliged to post this (again!) - arguably the most majestically random but brilliant comedy sketch committed to celluloid for at least the last, what, forty, forty five years?

Yes, forty, forty five years.

Happy birthday Paul 🤘

[Katie Hopkins @KTHopkins]

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It is my very great pleasure to do this, and I reiterate my sincere and repeated offer to meet with Miss Zara Sultana in person to resolve our differences.

[Danny Wallace @dannywallace]

What we crave is an old-school government so boring no-one knows their names. Competent, professional.
But we're led by a story-hungry media desperate for new drama for sponsored podcasts.
If they had their way we'd have a new PM every month, each worse than the last.

[Dave Brooks @PensionsDave]

@GangsterCinema The guy he stared at looks like a fatter Liev Schrieber and now I’m obsessed trying to work out if it was or not…

[BBC Newsnight @BBCNewsnight]

“The country is becoming ungovernable...���

The Times's Matthew Syed says constant leadership speculation is making it harder for Prime Ministers to make tough choices.

#Newsnight

[Dave Brooks @PensionsDave]

@David_J_Robbins @dontdelay Definitely felt like a "courageous" statement but given the relatively narrow nature of the commission we could see lots of useful ways to deal with the under savers and some further non-binding, as it were, recommendatoins. I feel like I am arguing with my opening point now!

[Dave Brooks @PensionsDave]

@dontdelay @David_J_Robbins I feel fairly confident they will suggest it and Torsten said yesterday he would implement the commission's recommendations so by my logic he's saying they will - that's if you agree with my confidence. Highly subjective.

[Dave Brooks @PensionsDave]

@CashQuestions @TheOfficialJVS @BBC3CR What did you say?

[Dave Brooks @PensionsDave]

@David_J_Robbins @dontdelay I think number 3 is where we’re at, also accepting some horses for courses on day to day political discussion.

[Dave Brooks @PensionsDave]

@NicoHQ1 @ChefReactions 😋

[Dave Brooks @PensionsDave]

Ed balls all over X on Ed Balls day! Too much.

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

Bridget Phillipson: "Ed, you were a senior adviser in govt for many years, you were a secretary of state"

Uh oh.

[Dave Brooks @PensionsDave]

@westerby1 HLE is an oft misunderstood stat. It isn’t the age at when you’ll get ill it’s the average number of years over a lifetime you’ll be in good health. The unhealthy bits may well come at the end but that’s not definite. Nor is a very clear definition of health.

[Dave Brooks @PensionsDave]

@AvantiWestCoast Do not understand sending a train to Liverpool packed with people back to Euston. Just sort out the issue and continue the journey. Nonsense. The passengers did not appreciate the manager's tone that heading back was good news.