Granny Danger Posted March 17, 2022 Author Share Posted March 17, 2022 45 minutes ago, Florentine_Pogen said: MP's tell population of UK............................"F*ck you all." https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/mar/17/plans-to-cap-uk-mps-earnings-from-second-jobs-dropped https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/mar/17/boris-johnsons-broken-promise-on-mps-second-jobs-fits-a-pattern If it wasn’t for Covid and now Ukraine then Johnson would have been utterly humiliated. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salt n Vinegar Posted March 19, 2022 Share Posted March 19, 2022 On 17/03/2022 at 13:35, Granny Danger said: If it wasn’t for Covid and now Ukraine then Johnson would have been utterly humiliated. I realise that I'm not entirely unbiased, but wasn't he utterly humiliated when he went to Saudi Arabia for oil price help and was told to eff off? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duries Air Freshener Posted March 19, 2022 Share Posted March 19, 2022 4 hours ago, Salt n Vinegar said: I realise that I'm not entirely unbiased, but wasn't he utterly humiliated when he went to Saudi Arabia for oil price help and was told to eff off? No. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted March 19, 2022 Share Posted March 19, 2022 2 hours ago, Duries Air Freshener said: No. What, did he sell them more bombs to drop on Yemen then? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duries Air Freshener Posted March 20, 2022 Share Posted March 20, 2022 19 hours ago, welshbairn said: What, did he sell them more bombs to drop on Yemen then? Not to my knowledge Welsh Bairn. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
101 Posted March 23, 2022 Share Posted March 23, 2022 Is there any reason why both of these things couldn't be pegged to inflation, even with a twice yearly review? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottsdad Posted March 23, 2022 Share Posted March 23, 2022 Very much a Katie Price budget statement. Spoiler Not even touching the sides 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coprolite Posted March 23, 2022 Share Posted March 23, 2022 18 minutes ago, 101 said: Is there any reason why both of these things couldn't be pegged to inflation, even with a twice yearly review? Yes. Conservatives couldn't give a shit about poor people and wish to spend the country's money on stuff for them and their mates. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Antlion Posted March 23, 2022 Share Posted March 23, 2022 37 minutes ago, scottsdad said: Very much a Katie Price budget statement. Hide contents Not even touching the sides 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DMCs Posted March 24, 2022 Share Posted March 24, 2022 On 23/03/2022 at 15:24, 101 said: Is there any reason why both of these things couldn't be pegged to inflation, even with a twice yearly review? The state pension is linked to inflation, in fact more than that as it's triple locked, it's just been paused for a couple years as the pandemic caused some weird distortions. Ultimately pensioners have more disposable income than those actually working and it's National Insurance that's rising to pay for the £400bn pandemic debt so it seems to me that pensioners have it good. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
101 Posted March 25, 2022 Share Posted March 25, 2022 17 hours ago, DMCs said: The state pension is linked to inflation, in fact more than that as it's triple locked, it's just been paused for a couple years as the pandemic caused some weird distortions. Ultimately pensioners have more disposable income than those actually working and it's National Insurance that's rising to pay for the £400bn pandemic debt so it seems to me that pensioners have it good. I thought the triple lock had been scrapped? https://www.itv.com/news/2021-09-07/pension-triple-lock-to-be-suspended-as-tories-break-another-manifesto-pledge 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DMCs Posted March 25, 2022 Share Posted March 25, 2022 30 minutes ago, 101 said: I thought the triple lock had been scrapped? https://www.itv.com/news/2021-09-07/pension-triple-lock-to-be-suspended-as-tories-break-another-manifesto-pledge Suspended for now. They will bring it back in a year or two. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
101 Posted March 25, 2022 Share Posted March 25, 2022 6 hours ago, DMCs said: Suspended for now. They will bring it back in a year or two. Sure... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sophia Posted March 25, 2022 Share Posted March 25, 2022 3 minutes ago, 101 said: Sure... Your cynicism, I'm sure, is misplaced. I for one have no reason to mistrust the Westminster administration 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DMCs Posted March 25, 2022 Share Posted March 25, 2022 1 hour ago, 101 said: Sure... I'd bet a lot of money on it. Pensioners are a huge part of the Tory voting bloc. Ultimately I think we should have scrapped the triple lock years ago. The state pension should be linked to the CPI alone. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oneteaminglasgow Posted March 30, 2022 Share Posted March 30, 2022 I see the U.K. has its first transgender parliamentarian. Good for them. Takes a lot of bravery for them to come out in the current media and political landscape around transgender people. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
101 Posted March 30, 2022 Share Posted March 30, 2022 22 minutes ago, oneteaminglasgow said: I see the U.K. has its first transgender parliamentarian. Good for them. Takes a lot of bravery for them to come out in the current media and political landscape around transgender people. Really good to see, sickening that Johnston opened the Conservative party party last night with an Anti-Trans joke with them in attendance. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottsdad Posted March 30, 2022 Share Posted March 30, 2022 27 minutes ago, oneteaminglasgow said: I see the U.K. has its first transgender parliamentarian. Good for them. Takes a lot of bravery for them to come out in the current media and political landscape around transgender people. Aside from coming out, sounds like they have had a bad time of it recently. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coprolite Posted March 30, 2022 Share Posted March 30, 2022 On 24/03/2022 at 18:25, DMCs said: The state pension is linked to inflation, in fact more than that as it's triple locked, it's just been paused for a couple years as the pandemic caused some weird distortions. Ultimately pensioners have more disposable income than those actually working and it's National Insurance that's rising to pay for the £400bn pandemic debt so it seems to me that pensioners have it good. If the triple lock is reinstated and kept then todays pensioners will benefit a bit but future pensioners will benefit even more. It's a bit short sighted to argue for its removal because some pensioners have more assets than most young people. I agree that the putting the fiscal burden on working people is unfair. But there are a huge number of pensioners whose only income is the state pension. Putting more of them in poverty won't help the people on lower benefits or in low paid work. It would also mean that those people have poverty to look forward to in retirement. Raising benefits and wages would help. Reducing taxes on earned income and taxing capital gains, unearned income and wealth is a much better answer than fighting for a bigger share of the crumbs. Here's a pension inequality for you: if you die with unused pension funds, they are outside of inheritance tax. So you can accumulate wealth tax free and pass it on tax free so long as you have enough money to do that. If you're properly rich you can live off your iht estate and not touch your pension. Let's get that money in the system before condemning ourselves to poverty out of envy. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donathan Posted March 30, 2022 Share Posted March 30, 2022 Is Jamie announcing their intention to transition male to female or that they already transitioned female to male? I’m confused by what pronouns I should be using here. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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