Here are some screenshots, mainly from one pundit, versus Miriam Cates and a genuine Gen Zee Jess Gill. She uses GB News to attack pensioners on the State Pension.
The argument centres around the poor youngsters supposedly having nothing coz the nasty Boomers refuse to give them their money and provide, while their lives were cushy and secure in boomer days. Interesting ... I don't recall my parents providing everything still after 21 ... they expected I'd get a job and pay for myself. No job, no benefits.
On the other hand, the young have a point in this respect ... the Uniparty are ensuring that 18 to 30 are today mentally deficient, ignorant, uneducated, violent and undisciplined and many of those miscreants ruining kids are leftist women, quite a few being boomers ... yes.
Anyway, in no particular order:
Thoughts?
It is also useful to look at VED, Road Tax, which brings in something of the order of 8-9 Billion quid a year;originally designed and PROMISED to be solely for the building and maintenance of the road network. Now given over to general taxation and squandered by government, who then plead poverty when asked to sort the roads!
ReplyDeleteWherever you scratch this government, you find traces of the Intergenerational Foundation, an ‘independent research charity’ campaigning for ‘a fairer deal for younger and future generations’ through housing pension and tax reform (and, inevitably, for action to ‘tackle the climate emergency’).
ReplyDeleteWhile much of their research is directed towards entirely reasonable aims - for example, an end to new-build leasehold and escalating ground rents - their findings have been repeatedly seized on by Labour activists to justify pressuring empty-nesters to move out of their family homes or redistributing their wealth and income via the tax system.
There were interesting echoes of IF reports, for example, in the language used to justify cutting the WFA and in the expectation that, unable to afford to heat their large homes, owner-occupiers on the basic pension would sell up, thereby freeing up housing stock or freeze and save the planet (and perhaps, given Torsten Bell’s previous calculations for the Labour Party, with the implied added bonus that some of them would shuffle off this mortal coil as a result and save the state even more money).
I am in favour of the state pension - however it must be remembered that today's recipients paid into the system for years expecting less in real terms than they are receiving now).
ReplyDeleteI'm convinced that the country is close to effective bankruptcy. If it wasn't for the ability to print money and effectively devalue the pound, we would be in a huge mess. We are servicing a huge debt. Our civil service is a huge millstone that contributes very little to productivity. If the civil service won't reform, then the numbers need to be slashed massively to force change. Better to pay them dole money than pay them massive wages and pensions contributions. It's just a factor of money.
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