@bbcquestiontime The thing happening at an exponential rate is the aging population, triple lock and state pension already making up 50% of welfare spending. We're sleep walking through a crisis but no politician will touch the subject because pensioners vote in droves.
@Helen_Whately@Conservatives The clip played at the start... "spending more in welfare than taking in from income tax" - but how will you tackle the issues with scroungers on state pension which makes up 50% of welfare spending?
@SpeedoE17@Nick_JIS@TorstenBell State pension is welfare paid for by the current taxpayer. It makes up roughly half of all welfare spending. £146bn out of £326bn.
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@Alexarmstrong Who is storing cash in an S&S ISA when you have the option of tax free stocks? Young people would be much better off putting that into stocks rather than see cash savings deteriorate to inflation. If they need cash then the cash ISA still works great.
@SamCoatesSky How much of that is because long term they would vote for Burnham at a GE? I suspect some would like Burnham to win because it could mean Starmer out in a leadership bid. Similar to 2024 when it was a vote for Labour to get Tories out rather than a vote of confidence in Starmer.
@ButtercupRevo@skengw23@SukhSidhuDXB It's not that you need the state to tell you what your labour is worth. It's that business needs to be told what the minimum value of anyone's labour is worth. Minimum wage was originally brought in to eradicate exploitation, if not updated it will slip back.