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  On 09/02/2024 at 12:29, Renton said:

Why is no-one talking about this? It will affect most on this board, and it's bullshit. We should have our fluorescent gilets on and be tearing down parliament. 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2024/feb/09/raising-uk-state-pension-age

 

 

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Some paid for RW think tank* says 'we think they should raise the pension age' and everyone scuttles around talking about it? I and many others think the pension ages shouldn't have risen and the amount you get needs vastly upped. Let them discuss that instead. :cuppa:

 

 

*I can't see any info on how they're funded so I'm making some assumptions. Sue me if I'm wrong.

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  On 09/02/2024 at 12:29, Renton said:

Why is no-one talking about this? It will affect most on this board, and it's bullshit. We should have our fluorescent gilets on and be tearing down parliament. 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2024/feb/09/raising-uk-state-pension-age

 

 

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When the dog dies I think me and the now semi-permanent Mrs PL will be making plans to visit Switzerland… not told her yet like, saving that for her birthday ☺️

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  On 09/02/2024 at 14:59, PaddockLad said:


When the dog dies I think me and the now semi-permanent Mrs PL will be making plans to visit Switzerland… not told her yet like, saving that for her birthday ☺️

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Hope you have a lovely time and bring back some toblerone. 

 

Wait, what?

 

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  On 09/02/2024 at 15:39, Gemmill said:

 

 

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There is such an echo chamber now between the populist Tory policies of the day (immigrants, grooming gangs, trans rights, 30mph zones, electric cars etc) and the right wing papers/GB news lot that report on it, that they're cognitively dissonant to the fact that 80% of the country couldn't give a fuck about most of that and are more interested in interest rates, the NHS, the Brexit mess etc.

 

Long May it continue. Most moderate Tories have left the cabinet and most of the senior ministers left are 1% ers and on a different fucking planet. Dom Cummings is a cunt, but he knew how to read the room most of the time 

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  On 09/02/2024 at 19:14, Kid Dynamite said:


There is such an echo chamber now between the populist Tory policies of the day (immigrants, grooming gangs, trans rights, 30mph zones, electric cars etc) and the right wing papers/GB news lot that report on it, that they're cognitively dissonant to the fact that 80% of the country couldn't give a fuck about most of that and are more interested in interest rates, the NHS, the Brexit mess etc.

 

Long May it continue. Most moderate Tories have left the cabinet and most of the senior ministers left are 1% ers and on a different fucking planet. Dom Cummings is a cunt, but he knew how to read the room most of the time 

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It plays to my dad’s generation. My dad isn’t that bad (although he’s getting worse). A lot of them are insulated from most of the effects of the Tories’ fuck ups economically. Because they don’t have a mortgage to pay and they retired well before they were 60 on silly public sector pensions. Once they’re gone there isn’t a similar generation to replace them because no one else is ever having it so good. Reports of the Tories’ death in the past have been greatly exaggerated but, for this particular brand of what has always been a brigade of utter cunts, they have a very niche appeal. I don’t see people forgetting it in a hurry either because all most people really care about is their own standard of living. The daft old bastards who sit tutting at GB News all day (not my dad but I know a few) are quite literally a dying breed. It’s a fucking shame it’s come to this but just maybe it’s the shake up this country needs. Although not if the press has anything to do with it 

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