Boomers Pension Gravy Train Finally To Be Derailed

Cornucopia

ruggedtoast wrote: »

...start voting for wealth redistribution...

Which party is that, again?

I think we should add that one to your list of unreasonable demands - that "Boomers" should vote for a party that does not exist.

Bluebirdman_of_Alcathays

Castle wrote: »

According to the Bank of England inflation will be 2.7% next year.

It almost certainly won't be that then....

ruggedtoast

Its funny how those who have got the gravy are happiest with the train.

ess0two

ruggedtoast wrote: »

Its funny how those who have got the gravy are happiest with the train.

Probably because they've given the most to be in that position.

CLAPTON

ruggedtoast wrote: »

I don't begrudge anyone born in those decades a good standard of living.

They did everything they could for the generation below them. Unfortunately that generation turned out to be the baby boomers. Who did everything they could to shaft the generations below them.

There is plenty the Boomers can do. They can pay their way. Contribute their share, stop voting for Brexits, start voting for wealth redistribution, campaign for housing instead of forming residents groups to block it.

boomers are the minority of voters

add up the under 50s with the over 70s (you know the war generation you admire so much, that gave their all for the country and their children) and there is no contest.

Ok so you are happy to vote for the rich educated neoliberals, protectionism and you want to be a member of a white, christian club that benefits the elite and isolates itself from the rest of the world, but many people both young and old reject your failed narrative.

MobileSaver

ruggedtoast wrote: »

As a boomer we are all supporting you. And will be paying off your borrowing for decades to come.

Conveniently forgetting that all those boomers were paying in to the State for decades before you yourself paid a penny and then continued to keep paying in for several decades more...

Cornucopia

ruggedtoast wrote: »

You don't. As a boomer we are all supporting you. And will be paying off your borrowing for decades to come.

What borrowing?

Linton

Lets assume that Boomers are those born 1945-1970, a generation lasting 25 years...

I dont understand how boomers managed all these crimes. The first boomer PM was Blair, the first Boomer chancellor was Gordon Brown. Or was everything wonderful prior to 1997? By that time many DB pensions were already on their way out. If the triple lock on state pensions is removed in the near to medium term future it will probably be by boomers. The present PM and Chancellor are both boomers. OK Osborne was born in 1971 which perhaps puts him in the next generation, but I am not sure how he improved the situation.

Now look at pensioners - the oldest boomer is 71, and the youngest 46. So it would seem reasonable to assume that the majority of boomers are still at work and the great majority of pensioners, enjoying winter fuel payments, bus passes, triple lock state pensions etc are from the previous generation.

ruggedtoast

CLAPTON wrote: »

boomers are the minority of voters

add up the under 50s with the over 70s (you know the war generation you admire so much, that gave their all for the country and their children) and there is no contest.

Ok so you are happy to vote for the rich educated neoliberals, protectionism and you want to be a member of a white, christian club that benefits the elite and isolates itself from the rest of the world, but many people both young and old reject your failed narrative.

This isn't Logan's Run, Clapton. Obviously there are many more older voters than younger voters, and they / you vote in your naked self interest.

You have gerrymandered the parliamentary system so that all political parties represent you and then you pour scorn on younger people for not voting for them.

When a candidate does excite the appetites of the young, like Jeremy Corbyn, you pour derision and scorn on their heads and put the full gamut of your propaganda to bear with lies and disinformation.

You are devious, crepuscular, hypocritical, facetious, capricious and vain.

ruggedtoast

MobileSaver wrote: »

Conveniently forgetting that all those boomers were paying in to the State for decades before you yourself paid a penny and then continued to keep paying in for several decades more...

Boomer propaganda. You pay NI for the pensioners above you, not yourself. The boomers outnumbered their own pensioners and now they sit like a costly upside down pyramid of fiscal entitlement on the shoulders of young.

Splurging on house prices, free TV licenses, bus passes, state pensions, gold plated final salary pensions, and all the NHS treatment they feel like.