He’s ‘left’ the band mate. The band he now reckons was ‘his’ band, despite him never mentioning this supposed fact before.......ever. He’s probably practising his magic tricks whilst drinking vodka through his eye ball.
No , no , no for the love of God no . Already 20% of the UK population are in receipt of RP how are the remainder of folk in work meant to fund that and other social security benefits during a recession .
I’d forgotten about that. I did that after he offered me and Comm out for a fight after he’d been on the snakebite at his mates house with the nicked pub benches.
Same as they would have to fund 3 Million unemployed and the consequences of that. Even if you just wiped out the pension increase over 65, it would help.
I think that the mechanics financially would be fund 3m unemployed youngsters for a few years till they get a job, versus fund newly retired people till they die which is likely to be longer than 3 years
Which is why I said, if you scraped the one to two/three year pension increase, that would be your three year timeline sorted
I think stark reality imho is you scrap the pension increase (for men) or you send the unemployed out into the fields, and community work (including delivery driver jobs), whether they like it or not. Unless someone can magician jobs, maybe in HiaG's band
disagree as you can use control measures on the unemployed , including reducing the benefit , and that is not going to happen with RP * . The real problem is once retired you are retired but each year large numbers move between employment / unemployment depending on the vagaries of the economy . I'm not sure what your last sentence refers to . * to prove my point re not removing benefits , though letting them wither on the vine , from pensioners decades ago they gave 5 shillings extra to the few who made it to 80 . We still add 25 pence to RP on the 80th birthday even now oh and the Christmas bonus was introduced in the 70's and was £10 and still is getting on for 50 years later .
