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Can’t disagree, it’s the Tonys that have domesticated rest of you.
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I don’t remember any manifesto ever offering European pension levels in exchange for tax rises but I’m sure they would have been attacked by the same media and never got voted through.
Nobody voted to end defined pensions but RW press propaganda has taught them to envy so called “gold plated” public sector pensions rather than fight for similar benefits. Pensions in big private companies were better when I started work than public ones are now.
We were let down by the Lib Dem’s when they promised to scrap tuition fees.
I didn’t benefit from free education as the rules for grants meant that we were assessed on my self employed fathers income at a point when he had a good contract but he wasn’t working when I left school so no way I could go to uni.
People bought the lie that Right to buy would make them all homeowners when of course most of that housing stock has ended up with buy to let landlords.
I’m not pension age yet but I’ve lived through enough of those changes to remember it being a bit more complicated.
Personally sick to death of people who lump together a whole generation as if they’re all the same. Some pensioners are very wealthy but as with all our society there’s great inequality with some relying on the lowest state pension in the western world, about 1 in 7 in poverty
It can but when you’re younger you expect the rules to change and can adapt, as I have had to at various times but when on a fixed retirement income and fairly fixed costs there is little opportunity to do that
Also that it’ll disproportionately affect those on modest pensions rather than those who rely on accumulated wealth which has always been treated more favourably by the tax system.
I think aside from the technicalities of the tax system, which I’m sure we could discuss all day, my fundamental objection is that for those retired or about to retire this is a move of the goalposts which it’s too late for them to mitigate, so they will be poorer.
And you’re right that we get double taxed on loads of things - but this hasn’t been the case for pension contributions and it means the same income effectively being taxed twice as income, not through indirect taxes. If you spent that money on chocolate the vat would be the third time it was taxed.
Private contributions are either taken after NI and before IT or after both with the IT claimed back by the pension scheme. Either way you don’t get tax relief on NI payments and they have therefore been paid both when paying in and being payed out by a pension
It looks as if a pensioner retiring now would be double taxed having paid NI on pension contributions and now have to pay NI on pension income. Also it seems like another example of raising the level of tax on a poorer section of society rather than making the rich pay their fair share - stiffed.
Sickness benefits were around before SSP, which just moved responsibility for administering short term sickness to employers.
Sounds like Aylesbury. Saw Marillion there a couple of times in the 80’s.
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Unfortunately they did.
We can't rely on US
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Fellow south coast arrival William III also gets a positive rating. Immigrants ‘taking our jobs’ 👎 immigrants taking the whole country 👍
Stop Musk from funding far-right politics in the UK!
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Bring in legislation to prevent foreigners from donating to political parties.
Bring in urgent emergency legislation to prevent foreign nationals buying into our democracy
The favourite one when I worked for a local authority was people buying houses next to public parks and complaining about the noise of children playing in them.
Bristol City Council is not (yet) on Bluesky.
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