Boomers Pension Gravy Train Finally To Be Derailed

mayonnaise

ruggedtoast wrote: »

Meanwhile Brexit Boomers explain their vandalism of the EU, via the medium of video, to the Guardian.

One notable comment:

"There are too many pigeons"

Priceless. :rotfl:
Too many pigeons in Sleaford town centre...damn the EU!

gfplux

As a pensioner living outside Britain in one of the remaining 27 EU countries the triple lock and any talk about the UK old age pension interests me.
I have been receiving the UK State Pension for many years and enjoying the increases every year due to the link to inflation.
As a (very early) baby boomer I am horrified that successive British Governments have not protected the future and that people planning or approaching retirement find that they have been left behind.
Politicians all of who can't think beyond the next election spend too much time talking about "the Deficit" which mean NOTHING to "the dis-possessed" the "left behind" Problems need fixing NOW.

I also refuse to be made to feel guilty that I took my opportunities during what now (due to Political incompetence) could be called a "Golden Age"
That "Golden Age" should have continued but due to short term planning it did not.
Politicians who have to be re-elected every 4 or 5 years have ABSOLUTELY no interest in anyone's future but their own.
Having witnessed the fall of Communism perhaps we now may have to face up to the fact that Democracy is broken.

TrickyTree83

gfplux wrote: »

As a pensioner living outside Britain in one of the remaining 27 EU countries the triple lock and any talk about the UK old age pension interests me.
I have been receiving the UK State Pension for many years and enjoying the increases every year due to the link to inflation.
As a (very early) baby boomer I am horrified that successive British Governments have not protected the future and that people planning or approaching retirement find that they have been left behind.
Politicians all of who can't think beyond the next election spend too much time talking about "the Deficit" which mean NOTHING to "the dis-possessed" the "left behind" Problems need fixing NOW.

I also refuse to be made to feel guilty that I took my opportunities during what now (due to Political incompetence) could be called a "Golden Age"
That "Golden Age" should have continued but due to short term planning it did not.
Politicians who have to be re-elected every 4 or 5 years have ABSOLUTELY no interest in anyone's future but their own.
Having witnessed the fall of Communism perhaps we now may have to face up to the fact that Democracy is broken.

Or that the welfare state can only be funded by exponential infinite growth. A child could tell you that's not possible, yet we, as a species, persist. Odd.

Thrugelmir

gfplux wrote: »

As a (very early) baby boomer I am horrified that successive British Governments have not protected the future and that people planning or approaching retirement find that they have been left behind.

Perhaps you should return home and spend your pension in the UK economy then. Without taxpayers Governments have no income. No doubt when it suits you you'll also return home to use the NHS. In due course you'll be grumbling about that too. The triple lock was borne out of political posturing. Never financially viable longer term.

CLAPTON

gfplux wrote: »

That "Golden Age" should have continued but due to short term planning it did not.
Politicians who have to be re-elected every 4 or 5 years have ABSOLUTELY no interest in anyone's future but their own.
Having witnessed the fall of Communism perhaps we now may have to face up to the fact that Democracy is broken.

fascism is on the rise in europe: you seem comfortable with that
yes, everything is wrong with democracy except the alternatives

ruggedtoast

CLAPTON wrote: »

oh dear
poor old toxic toastie gets awfully muddled about what a 'boomer ' is (hint: Corbyn, Abbott, McDonnell, Livingstone... are boomers)

and now he doesn't know what a budget deficit is

and the poor chap is confused whether he wants more borrowing or less

but he knows that everything the tories do is wrong, even if he doesn't know what they are doing

Oh look. A weedling Clapton arrives, like a fart at a wedding speech, to pour out stinky poisonous pedantry. Ad hominem attacks. The first and last resort of a nob.

Why don't you start a thread Clappers. About something that exercises you?

Clapton's Endless Scaremongering About Immigrants Thread - for example.

CLAPTON

ruggedtoast wrote: »

Oh look. A weedling Clapton arrives, like a fart at a wedding speech, to pour out stinky poisonous pedantry. Ad hominem attacks. The first and last resort of a nob.

Why don't you start a thread Clappers. About something that exercises you?

Clapton's Endless Scaremongering About Immigrants Thread - for example.

just wanted to preserve the venon

antrobus

ruggedtoast wrote: »

Oh look. A weedling Clapton arrives, like a fart at a wedding speech, to pour out stinky poisonous pedantry. Ad hominem attacks. The first and last resort of a nob....

Very black pot confesses he is a nob.:)

ruggedtoast wrote: »

...
Why don't you start a thread Clappers. About something that exercises you?

.Clapton's Endless Scaremongering About Immigrants Thread - for example.

So far, you are the only one that has mentioned immigrants in this thread. You are the one that has abandoned any semblance of debate and resorted to abuse.

You should stop now.

ruggedtoast

antrobus wrote: »

Very black pot confesses he is a nob.:)



So far, you are the only one that has mentioned immigrants in this thread. You are the one that has abandoned any semblance of debate and resorted to abuse.

You should stop now.

Or you could stop reading.

[Deleted User]

westernpromise wrote: »

There are trolleys to be rounded up toastie. Get back to work unless you want to end up in the Tesco car park.

A bit harsh, IMO.

Rugged's just really narked because his beloved Corbyn and the Shadow Chancer of the Exchequer have seemingly said that they ain't going to stick the boot into the old - when Rugged loves Corbyn AND hates the elderly, he doesn't know what to say now. I mean, how can he support Labour policy when it goes against his most deeply felt angst?

Just being helpful, you understand.....:)

WR