PaddockLad

Just to clarify and echo, he’s done the square root of fuck all v a bog standard PL left back ☺️

Can you summarise his first half contributions please? ☺️

They’ll be ok. I just think it’s bad politics and picking on a group that there will always be a massive outcry over when there dozens of other ways she could’ve raised funds with probably an equal amount of outrage from the usual quarters but with less sympathy for the “victims” eg CoL, a levy on executive salaries etc…

She’s basically a tv and radio presenter. Hes a pretty good DJ and producer, I think he’s maybe from Dumfries or some other desolate porridge wog outpost settlement. He was responsible for this which is frankly fucking excellent

And here are the lovely Mr and Mrs Harris ☺️

No need to apologise mate. I hadn’t considered the cost of the triple lock until you & others mentioned it. I can now see it’s part of the reason Reeves went down this road 👍

Apparently not… probably because they did equity release…which was because they didn’t have savings or a private pension…

Ok, time to come clean and say this was prompted by my mother in law. Her and FIL basically live on a bit of equity release from their paid up mortgage. They’re a million fuckin miles from what some are portraying on here. The equity release is for bills and to pay for pretty much their only pleasure in life their dog. I’ve never known them in 13 years to have a weeks holiday anywhere. A few days here and there. She’s in bits about the energy price cap increase on top of losing WFA. Then there’s the newly widowed mum of my mate. Ken was a self employed labourer till he had to give up due to MS. Then he got dementia. Their savings were all gone a decade ago. Theyre probably in a “squeezed middle” sector, not poor buy now where near some of the things only the truly well off are doing with their allowance . My father in law was a store man. He wasn’t anywhere near a final salary pension scheme . The criteria needs to change to just include the already well off. At the moment it’s far too narrow. it’s going to hurt a lot more people than it won’t affect and people below pension age will make a political judgement on them because of it at the ballot box. Not saying it’s political suicide at this point but those persuaded to vote for Starmer maybe won’t forget…

This is it. The criteria should be completely different as Martin moneydude has said this morning.

I hadn’t thought too much about it till I saw about the price cap going up this morning. I would’ve annihilated the tories for picking on those on benefits. This is the same. They’ve got 3/4 of the media against them and they’re more than capable of starting to turn those deserted the tories in July back again, just waiting for someone who’s not a raving fuckin lunatic to galvanise them. It took Starmer 4 years. I can’t believe they’ve been so short sighted.

Are your folks affected?

This cunt is bought and paid for too

https://www.theguardian.com/money/article/2024/aug/23/martin-lewis-calls-for-rethink-over-plans-to-limit-winter-fuel-payments?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other I think I get why Reeves cut the WFA to just those receiving pension credits. Pensioners are unlikely to vote Tory and in 4.86 years time at least half of them will be too dead to vote Tory. So politically there’s not a lot of risk in it and the old “it’s because of a 20 billion black hole that those bastards tories hid at the back of the cupboard” routine will be rolled out by Labour front benchers being asked to defend it. There’s also “pain now, exchequer giveaway later” angle for the budgets before the election in 2029. In spite of all that it remains the most motherfuckingly dumb, ignorant, blind to the feelings of others, contemptible and just plain cuntish decisions taken in the first month of any government that I can remember. What the fuck were they thinking picking on fucking pensioners? Why couldn’t they mildly levy the City of London? Not many fuckin Labour voters among those cunts is there?… and now this… 🤦‍♂️

Mmmm…. Alex Jones…

He keeps saying he never leaves the house #prayforgemmill 🙏🏻

Is your life really that empty?

“Negotiations are ongoing” 😉

Am just imagining the indescribable joy on your little face when you opened that bad boy this morning ☺️

BREAKING @Gemmill

He’s in there to get minutes in his legs if you ask me. If he was about to be sold he would hardly turning out for the U21s…

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