It needs a masssive crash or another major heist....I never hear anyone mentioning this, yet surely it has to be one of the biggest cyber heists in recent times... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangladesh_Bank_robbery
I think anything that takes us back to hard currency is needed. We're spending more bcos everything is just numbers. When you had to pull money out your pocket you thought about it, and about how much was left before you went to the cashpoint again. Funny thing is I remember thinking it was a pisstake when cashpoints stopped giving out £5 notes but that pales into comparison when you see what's happened since. I have teachers saying the kids haven't a clue what currency is anymore which makes teaching about it insane bcos they are literally having to explain the concept of coins...to 6 year olds lol
and there the troubles begin, especially the last sentence, because people stop thinking of it as real money, until things go wrong....and that's ok if it's just a few pounds, but once you start talking hundreds and thousands, people start to panic then cry, when they find they had no protection at the bank.
We've become far too sanitised and just willing to accept stuff, and politicians can ride literally any storm. Could you honestly say the Perfumo affair or Westlands would cause anyone to resign now? I don't. We've spoken about this before, the "in your face" public interaction is gone. The church halls and town halls filled with Jo public heckling ministers standing on some wooden stage at the front are gone. And as soon as anyone tries to cause them any grief they get evicted and ppl clap this ****. It's why I will always defend protesting bcos it's one of the few things that still make our politicians feel uncomfortable. And look at what they're trying to do to them. Portraying them as lunatics and extremists. Why? Because they want to rid us of any way of holding them to account or feel pressured by the public to do anything other than what they want.
No tax threshold rises for low and middle income workers though. I may be wrong because what I've heard is more anecdotal than anything but most pensioners are financially secure. They're more concerned about their children and grandchildren in terms of their housing, work prospects, cost of living. And their other priority is decent public services. So I'm wondering if the Tories have read the room here.
Yeah, and bollocks to the grandkids ffs Though when I saw the headline “The State Pension Will Never Be Taxed, Says Rishi”, I thought “yeah, because it’ll never pay enough to attract tax”.
I'm going to disagree here. I reckon the majority of pensioners, as worried they are about the next generation are probably not doing great themselves and can be easily bribed
As someone who is approaching retirement, I’m pretty ****ing furious that I have to wait till I’m 67 to get the state pension, thanks to these robbing Tory bastards. And I’m not about to fall for the promise of a smoke and mirrors tax break, when I’m already paying tax on my Royal Mail pension.
Most new pensioners for at least 39 years are pretty well off as so many are home owners , mortgage free , decent occ pensions with lots of freebies chucked in .Plus Pensions credit is a generous benefit compared to the other means tested ones . As an aside spent years telling my mum to stick in a claim but she kept telling me she wouldn't qualify despite me telling her i was fairly certain shewould without even looking it up . Couple of years ago she tells me she had claimed and was getting it . I promptlysaid about time you listened to me to which she just looked at me and said "oh no it was Beryl at knit & natter who said she thought i would get it as she does".
I'll put the points I've heard - that most are from the baby boom generation, own their own homes, decent triple lock state pension, got a decent disposable income. That's NOT to say they are in some sort of competition with the generations below them for who should get more, I'll leave that tripe for the right wing media. But many will look to their sons and daughters who may be in their 30's, working their nuts off, and the tax burden on them, the fact they can't get on the property ladder, can't save for a deposit, or even afford rent. They'll look at the prospects for their grandchildren. They'll also look at what's important for themselves e.g. local services, transport, the NHS, social care. And I'm not so sure the bribe will be enough.
