Off Topic Politics Thread

Feels dangerously close to Kwarteng informing insider trading.

 

The Tories launched their attack on the state pension under David Cameron, when they began the process of pushing back the pensionable age. I’ll be 67 when I claim mine. For people born in the 1970s, State Pension age goes up to 68.

 

I agree but there is a strong difference between it being pushed back to 68 and abolishing it.

I was born in 1989, I would be amazed if it isn’t at least back to 70 by the time I get around to claiming it.

It’s a good bellwether of how standards are falling generation by generation, my Grandparents were all retired by 60 (although to be fair one of those was medical retirement).

 

I agree they won't abolish it; and they will never announce the privitisation of the NHS. The preferred method is to chip away at the foubndations of the welfare state piece by piece, until there's little of value left.

 

I read earlier the other politics thread, I noticed you post on there………what a god awful place that is.
Some very right wing deluded souls on there.

 

I have been saying similar for a long time.
We also have to remember, especially with the Johnson government, that the Speaker of the House was regularly chastising the government for leaking their plans to a chosen media group, before releasing the same information in the House.
I think it’s naïve for anyone to think that the ministers aren’t given their pet business and hedge fund owners a heads up, before announcements, to allow them (the businesses and the ministers) to make financial gain.

 

It's full of lunatics


Not to be taken seriously though

 

Some of the comments on there are baffling,are they on the wind up or they seriously think that way?

 

Some are on the wind up, except the truly stupid ones, of whom there are a few. At least one has fairly florid mental issues imo. They're mostly ****s, but funny ****s sometimes.

 

Which other politics thread ?

 

There is a plus in this. I just googled it and I was convinced mine was 68, but it is 67

You just gave me a pay rise

 

Put your feet up old man, you've earned it

 

Dom Hauschild writes for the Times, apparently.
The dishonest state of journalism knows no bounds.

 

On general chat.

 

Time for sacking from the Times..

 

Fair play on him for speaking up to correct the record rather than trying to play it up out of partisanship or something. That's about all I'd ever give that particular guy credit for.

 

Oh come on, there's more to him than that.....you try walking around with a cat balanced on your head all day!

 

Looks more like someone shot the cat on his head.