Labours pension threat - daily express

JoeEngland

Deleted_User wrote: »

How is any of that even relevant? Not the same editor, not the same journalists. “White poppy” anti-war movement supported Nazis after the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact, but that does not make Corbyn a Nazi. Before his time.

I was just responding to bluenose1's claim. It probably isn't relevant after so many decades, but there's a definite unpleasantness and malignancy about the red tops and other tabloids even though they sometimes report the truth.

msallen

Just for a bit of balance. I would neither believe anything in the Mail/Express OR vote for Corbyn.

The best chance this country has is a hung parliament, which continues until at least one of the main two parties decides to adopt some common sense and takes the centre ground (or somewhat less likely the LibDems or some other more moderate party/coalition grows exponentially).

hyubh

Deleted_User wrote: »

Not just USSR that muzzled press and the courts. Corbyn worked for Putin’s propaganda channel RT and Ayatollah’s PressTV. He was very supportive of Assad, Cuban and Venezuelan dictators. They all have great experience in this field.

Huh? You claimed Labour's broadband proposals would have big trouble getting through the courts... and I replied suggesting that's a rather dubious assumption. Nationalising Openreach is more akin to nationalising Railtrack than (say) creating the NHS.

[Deleted User]

hyubh wrote: »

Huh? You claimed Labour's broadband proposals would have big trouble getting through the courts... and I replied suggesting that's a rather dubious assumption. Nationalising Openreach is more akin to nationalising Railtrack than (say) creating the NHS.

The issue here is that UK does not have enough credit capacity to nationalise everything Labour promised to nationalise at fair market value. And once they start confiscations, there will be court challenges which will succeed under the current system

Mick70

bostonerimus wrote: »

Simply posting a link without any comment seems a bit lazy to me and could also be a way for bots to spread propaganda. The forum should think about this a bit.

Sorry was in a rush at time but thought the article may be of interest to some posters . My opinion is that Corbyn would Damage private pension funds , I also think he would stop the tax free lump sums and reduce the LTA threshold , my opinion only

Mick70

Mind you , also being reported that the torys plan on raising state pension age to 75!!

Thrugelmir

Mick70 wrote: »

Sorry was in a rush at time but thought the article may be of interest to some posters . My opinion is that Corbyn would Damage private pension funds , I also think he would stop the tax free lump sums and reduce the LTA threshold , my opinion only

Also public pension schemes. Share ownership is widespread. The devil is in the detail. Often overlooked in the haste to make big policy announcements in a hurry. Which can see said policies unravel very quickly.

JoeCrystal

Brynsam wrote: »

No point worrying now. Scaremongering, as the press do so well!

I have to agree with Brynsam in this case. I am not going to worry about this at all until the manifestos are released on the parties' policies.

nigelbb

JoeEngland wrote: »

I was just responding to bluenose1's claim. It probably isn't relevant after so many decades, but there's a definite unpleasantness and malignancy about the red tops and other tabloids even though they sometimes report the truth.

The Daily Express has always hated the Labour Party & spread lies about it. Here is a link to the front page in June 1945 with the headline of "Churchill Claims 'Gestapo In Britain If Socialists Win' General Election" Labour went on to win the election a month later with 393 seats to the Tories 197 & inaugurate the NHS amongst other reforms but with no Gestapo.

https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-1945-daily-express-front-page-reporting-churchill-claims-gestapo-in-87338571.html

Malthusian

Mick70 wrote: »

Mind you , also being reported that the torys plan on raising state pension age to 75!!

That was a thinktank. The point of thinktanks is to float ludicrous proposals to make the Government's / Opposition's proposals seem more sensible.

A thinktank proposes that the chocolate ration should be reduced to 10 grams, the Government then reduces it to 20 grams, and we all rejoice that we don't have to survive on 10 grams of chocolate thanks to the Government.

Sensible proposals from people who have no power don't get headlines.

A healthy newborn baby should aspire to seeing the day when SPA is 75 (a rate of increase of a year a decade would do it), but it's not a factor in anyone's planning if they are currently saving into or spending pension funds.