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To paraphrase: "I may have to pay a political price, but I'm going to do these things that our country needs."
Cue the usual, fossilised cynicism from both sides of the spectrum, but I have a good feeling about this bloke.
It won't be possible to achieve everything, but I'd rather someone took a political risk and gave it a bloody good go - there's no point pissing around with an eye on five years time, we need some fundamental change based on all of us, first of all, providing a solid, social base, and developing responsibly from there where possible.
Good work by Philogene...... GREAT WORK BY PHILOGENE!!!
Loving Burnham's visions and promises on 15:18 - Sep 29 by DanTheMan
Mostly fine, but I'm not so keen on putting all this stuff off until after the next election with a pinky promise you'll do it.
We've definitely been there before with electoral reform...
Yes the timeline on it is pathetic, and since they are keeping it linked to inflation I can’t see how it’s possibly going to save money for social care. He know’s full well inflation is going to be the highest of those 3 metrics anyway for the next few years.
I’m not in favour of putting pensioners in poverty, but it’s totally unfair us youngsters are funding better schemes than we’ll ever see. There has to be a total reform of what the state pension is or well continue our managed decline. No bravery at all in politics just kicking the can for future governments.
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Loving Burnham's visions and promises on 17:58 - Sep 29 with 375 views
Loving Burnham's visions and promises on 17:37 - Sep 29 by SuperKieranMcKenna
Yes the timeline on it is pathetic, and since they are keeping it linked to inflation I can’t see how it’s possibly going to save money for social care. He know’s full well inflation is going to be the highest of those 3 metrics anyway for the next few years.
I’m not in favour of putting pensioners in poverty, but it’s totally unfair us youngsters are funding better schemes than we’ll ever see. There has to be a total reform of what the state pension is or well continue our managed decline. No bravery at all in politics just kicking the can for future governments.
counter arguement is that 50-80 years ago when the pensioners were starting their careers there was not the encouragement to join pension schemes there is these days. So too many people have started retirement relying solely on state pension. At least those in the 20-40s bracket should by now be building retirement pots that should put them in a decent position when they finally retire (assuming state pension is still available) .
The main issue is not so much the individual increase but the collective effect of an increasing aged population. Kicking the can down the road is a correct statement.
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Loving Burnham's visions and promises on 18:04 - Sep 29 with 368 views
Loving Burnham's visions and promises on 17:23 - Sep 29 by J2BLUE
He was clearly emotional. Imagine trying to weaponise someone's dad dying.
ffs.
Bill has come back radicalised and unpleasant it seems. His output has been appalling for some time. I suspect he will be as elusive as his big cats soon enough
Loving Burnham's visions and promises on 17:58 - Sep 29 by mellowblue
counter arguement is that 50-80 years ago when the pensioners were starting their careers there was not the encouragement to join pension schemes there is these days. So too many people have started retirement relying solely on state pension. At least those in the 20-40s bracket should by now be building retirement pots that should put them in a decent position when they finally retire (assuming state pension is still available) .
The main issue is not so much the individual increase but the collective effect of an increasing aged population. Kicking the can down the road is a correct statement.
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Yeah again, changes would need to be tapered, but we’ve got to the point that there is 2.4 economically inactive (yes I know pensioners still spend some money), for each working taxpayer.
In short the young are f….
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Loving Burnham's visions and promises on 18:57 - Sep 29 with 300 views
Loving Burnham's visions and promises on 18:10 - Sep 29 by SuperKieranMcKenna
Yeah again, changes would need to be tapered, but we’ve got to the point that there is 2.4 economically inactive (yes I know pensioners still spend some money), for each working taxpayer.
In short the young are f….
Pensioners also pay tax. I received a revised tax code last Saturday. My tax code reduced by 1. Why? Because my pension went up by 25p a week and they needed to claw back 20% of that. As a consequence I will, between now and April, have to pay the grand total of £2 extra in tax.
Loving Burnham's visions and promises on 20:09 - Sep 29 by J2BLUE
Yes, I read that...was looking for something more specific.
Genuinely interested.
Don't have anything more specific than that, other than people need to be encouraged to get out to work (and that includes better support for single parents for example) rather than claiming welfare.
Loving Burnham's visions and promises on 16:10 - Sep 29 by Cafe_Newman
I loathe self checkouts for the reasons you give, but you can do some things to prevent these job losses.
Insist on using the manned-checkouts, even if it means queuing. Alternatively, be old and doddery when you do use the self-checkout. Literally take 20-30 to check out and slow up the checkout process - if enough people do this, people will stop shopping at these places.
This triggers rage in me like nothing else on the planet.
Loving Burnham's visions and promises on 20:28 - Sep 29 by Wolfshead
Don't have anything more specific than that, other than people need to be encouraged to get out to work (and that includes better support for single parents for example) rather than claiming welfare.
Fair enough, thanks for answering.
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Loving Burnham's visions and promises on 20:34 - Sep 29 with 105 views
Loving Burnham's visions and promises on 20:28 - Sep 29 by Wolfshead
Don't have anything more specific than that, other than people need to be encouraged to get out to work (and that includes better support for single parents for example) rather than claiming welfare.
What about people who are working, but don't earn enough to live, so need supplementary benefits?
Loving Burnham's visions and promises on 20:08 - Sep 29 by Wolfshead
...the welfare bill
Pensions make up 48% of the welfare bill, and many pensioners will recipients be of non-pension welfare payments such as attendance allowance, housing benefit, disability living allowance and PIP.
Indeed, welfare spending overall as a percentage of GDP is lower than under austerity, a time when the pension element would presumably have been smaller than it is now given the impact that the triple lock has had.
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Loving Burnham's visions and promises on 20:50 - Sep 29 with 44 views
Loving Burnham's visions and promises on 18:04 - Sep 29 by Mullet
If he can reverse and undo just a fraction of the damage Thatcherism has done to this country he might be the greatest PM since Blair.
He’s a breath of fresh air already after the last idiot who wasted a massive majority for two years. I’m in agreement with the OP. At least there’s the start of a coherent vision with some ambition. There’s been some decent easy wins announced so far but the hard work’s still to come. I suspect they’ll fall short of what they’re aiming for, but at least they’re thinking about some of the big challenges (not all; the environment’s barely been addressed yet bar the already discussed water co privatisation). It’s not all about the cost of living, so I hope they’re good at multitasking!
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