Pensions, GIFs, hiking, Lake District, and some other stuff. Opinions are my own 🏞🏞
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4 Oct 2022
THE UK STATE PENSION - A THREAD
You must have known this was on its way .... and here it is!
Please spare a second to retweet and add any comments 🙏
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The Nokia 3310 was probably the best phone I've ever had - virtually indestructible, charge lasted forever and you could text without even looking at the keys. Not always great when you woke up and vaguely remembered sending texts at 3am after a night out though 🫣 🥂
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I've seen a lot of posts like this one recently. I have young relatives and it's awful how young people are so painfully aware that they're second class citizens when it comes to policy decisions. I'm 54 and I feel a bit the same.
Jun 14
To be under 35 in this country is simply not worth it
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Last of the sun over Liverpool Bay from Crosby beach. Goodnight folks.
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Here we go 🙄 funny how so many people want the state pension to be part of the "social contract" but aren't happy when it comes to another part of the social contract - paying income tax. It's younger people being targeted and picking up the tab, not pensioners.
Daily Express
MPs demand Chancellor stop treating pensioners as an easy target.
Monday 15 June 2026
A look at #TomorrowsPapersToday
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This is going to turn into another triple lock debacle where it's expected to last forever. All hell will break loose when these small tax demands increase and the preferential treatment is removed. Workers on low income won't be exempt from paying income tax.
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Jun 14
This headline 🤢 Younger people are not cash cows for pensioners and paying income tax is as much a part of the social contract as the state pension is. There's no justification for pensioners getting another tax cut - they already stop paying NI (tax) from state pension age.
Jun 14
Andy Burnham: I’ll keep the triple lock, and give pensioners a tax cut trib.al/YC1E4F4
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Jun 14
Gosh, drawn into the triple lock thing far too much this weekend 🥴 enjoy your Sunday - best go do some jobs 🫶
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Jun 14
Younger ppl can't simply "go out & get more work" to cover higher living costs 🙄 the state pension triple lock was introduced in 2010 & was not "promised forever". Giving £15bn a year to all 13m pensioners doesn't help those who need more support. Stop using them as an excuse.
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Jun 14
This is an example of how completely disconnected some older people are from the reality of younger people's daily lives. Go out and get more work. Ha 🙄
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Jun 13
About to watch the World Cup in the pub when a fella said to me ‘I bet you can’t name 3 Qatar players’
I replied - George Harrison, Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton
#worldcup
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Jun 13
This will never end. It's been explained a thousand times but some people still think UK pensioners are somehow being punished with a 'measly' state pension. It would cost over £250,000 to buy an equivalent annuity - and why is other pension income never mentioned 🤔
And remember we also have one of the worst pensions in Europe. One of the very least generous in the whole G7 👇🏼👏🏻
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Women like this were thrown under the bus in 2016 by WASPI leaders who rejected a means-tested benefit because most WASPI wouldn't qualify. WASPI never once prioritised the women genuinely impacted by state pension age changes. It was a cash grab by those with cash to spare.
I once worked with a lady impacted by the rise in pension age, unmarried and in poor health. She shouldn't have been working at all but she carried on until she could claim her state pension. If only we'd heard more from them.
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Jun 11
After the absolute roasting received yesterday re: WASPI compensation for state pension age changes, Burnham has pulled his support for financial compensation. A wise move 🐝 fair play to the man for saying this and not raising false hope (as has been the case with many MPs).
Jun 11
NEW: Burnham *rules out* awarding financial compensation to Waspi women demanding billions of pounds, following an angry backlash within Labour
Greater Manchester mayor has instead floated the idea of offering early access to cheaper travel schemes as recompense
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Jun 10
Watching some old Top Gear and nothing has given me the same jolt as 'today, the average house price across the whole country is £150,000'
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Jun 10
Hillsborough victims and WASPI grifters don't belong in the same sentence. Law to increase women's state pension age from 60 was passed >30 years ago, women's SPa equalised at 65 with men's 8 years ago and all WASPI are now claiming a state pension. Time to move on 🙄
Jun 10
NEW: Andy Burnham has hinted at a new multibillion-pound spending commitment if he becomes PM, saying that more than 3.5mn women “deserve” compensation over what he regards as a pension scandal
Earlier I attended a Makerfield hustings event hosted by @MENnewsdesk, in which Burnham said: “I stick by campaigners that I support. I stuck by the Hillsborough families, I’ll stick by the Waspi women because they deserve some recompense for the unfairness.”
Stressing he wouldn’t ditch his longterm support for Waspi women, he said he felt “uncomfortable” that some politicians threw their support behind a cause but then went into government and “didn’t do anything”
ft.com/content/1021ae5f-aab3…
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Women aren't insisting on this. They are simply asserting their right to female only spaces.
If a sub section of men aren't happy using the male toilets then they can campaign for extra single cubicles.
No but it's not reasonable, or humane, for women to insist trans women risk their own safety and well being every time they eant the toilet either.
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May 25
Amazing how many people suddenly “know loads of people” faking mental illness for benefits.
Research suggests these stories are socially contagious.
Also if someone was fraudulently claiming benefits, they probably wouldn’t be telling everyone down the pub.
PIP fraud is 0.2%.
"I'm profoundly disabled, under palliative care, my husband is my carer, and we have struggled."
"I know people who get paid the same as me, and they have nothing wrong with them."
📞 Kirsty says the benefits system is too easy to game.
@theJeremyVine | #JeremyVine
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Jun 2
Llandudno seagulls can smell food a mile away and they take no prisoners 🦅 you're risking your life walking around outside with food 🍟
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One of my favourite places for long, breezy walks ❤️ the views from the top of The Great Orme are amazing (walking down is more enjoyable, tram ride up!). Still sunny and warm out even now ☀️ #Llandudno
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May 29
Et tu, USA 🇺🇸 a fascinating insight into an all too familiar state pension / social security 'problem'. Sounds a bit like SERPS (but a quick skim is all I can manage for tonight). Interesting read though.
May 29
By 2035, the Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance Trust Fund, or the Social Security Trust Fund, will be depleted, and current payroll taxes will only be able to fund 83 percent of the scheduled benefits.
Read more: hubs.ly/Q04jnqn20
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