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Doubt there’ll be a state pension by the time I get there but fortunately I plan to die around 70.

We're even more ****ed than we are now when our generation gets to retirement age and a huge chunk of people don't own a home.

I've already accepted that I'll work til the day I die but like you I don't plan on getting really old. As long as I make 60 I'm happy with that.
 
Thanks to David Cameron’s government, I have to work till I’m 67 to get my state pension (which I’ve been paying into since 1977). I’m sure @Diego will join me on the barricades

Easier times in someways 1977 when I look back, I was just a short walk from where I worked back then, not having to travel miles and commute like people do today. Always got my wages in cash on a Friday lunchtime, so was half day then, compressed hours I think they call it these days. So it was straight down the pub with my work mates come Friday lunchtime, i was only 16 but no problem getting in the boozers back then. Saturdays was always football day and boozer after, usually somewhere a band was playing, use to go for a fry up before the game. Sunday spending what was virtually left of my wages having taken out board for my mum, and the money for my new motorbike. Then back to work on the Monday, with just enough money to buy some brekkie rolls (bacon/sausage etc). Never ever for one moment thought I'd live to be old.
 
Easier times in someways 1977 when I look back, I was just a short walk from where I worked back then, not having to travel miles and commute like people do today. Always got my wages in cash on a Friday lunchtime, so was half day then, compressed hours I think they call it these days. So it was straight down the pub with my work mates come Friday lunchtime, i was only 16 but no problem getting in the boozers back then. Saturdays was always football day and boozer after, usually somewhere a band was playing, use to go for a fry up before the game. Sunday spending what was virtually left of my wages having taken out board for my mum, and the money for my new motorbike. Then back to work on the Monday, with just enough money to buy some brekkie rolls (bacon/sausage etc). Never ever for one moment thought I'd live to be old.


You were better at budgeting than me then, I was always potless by Monday morning and had to rely on my boss’s son to buy me breakfast
 
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I find it interesting that all these folk bleating about the Winter Fuel Payment aren't also campaigning for it to also be paid to everyone receiving high rate DLA or PIP and certain UC recipients which have in many ways are more compelling case than just being 70
 
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They would never rob pensioners to give to their paymaster unions <doh>

... they had more permanent solutions - which is why thousands of pensioners died in the care homes during Covid due to the Government's 'herd immunity' initiative and failure to provide adequate PPE whilst deciding that a former Jockey Club chair was the best candidate to oversee Track & Trace ... result, a missing £37 billion of public funds certainly not given to the Unions ...
 
... they had more permanent solutions - which is why thousands of pensioners died in the care homes during Covid due to the Government's 'herd immunity' initiative and failure to provide adequate PPE whilst deciding that a former Jockey Club chair was the best candidate to oversee Track & Trace ... result, a missing £37 billion of public funds certainly not given to the Unions ...
Those damned immigrants.....
 
I fear for Diego as he has previously stated he has no teeth.

No teeth, no winter fuel allowance, how's he gonna warm his soup?

Just put the bowl on his phone for a while after logging into the Politcs thread on GC ... amount of hot air emanating from Dull & Co will heat it up in no time at all <laugh>
 
Not sure on how true this is but **** me that's cool
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Yeah just heard on the news, exploding pagers, eight dead and 2,750 wounded! All timed to go off the same time. Fook knows how they did it, they think the injuries are too severe to be batteries alone, suspect some device inside them. All very James Bond.
 
Just watched your video back @Sucky the guy is looking at his pager on his belt/trousers, just before it went off, he must have heard it bleep.

Decade or two at least since I remember pagers.