Tim Brock

You’re in for a treat in 2030.

London Underground*

If the announcer on the underground says “The front two doors at the next station will not open”… how many doors won’t open?

If you get resoundingly rejected at one election it would make little sense to keep all the same policies at the next one. The older generations said “we don’t want you’re offering” in 2019 so Labour didn’t offer it again in 2024.

I think you miss my point: pledges for one election don’t rollover to the next.

Sounds like the Stranger Things finale.

Take me down to the Parallax city where the far moves slow and the near moves quickly

Wasn’t in the manifesto, though there were definitely some MPs lining up for photoshoots.

And, most significantly, when it was part of a Labour election campaign in 2019, people of Waspi age rejected Labour overwhelmingly.

So a fifty-year lead-in to any change to the pension benefit? Ridiculous. That doesn’t happen for any other state benefit, and for good reason.

It seemed poorly thought through.

Today’s UX fail: trying to take a photo for an eVisa but not being able to see the instructions because you’re required to take your glasses off and you’re hopelessly shortsighted. Not very accessible.

You said they “promised”, but a photoshoot is not a promise.

Ok. Apologies for being a bit blunt earlier. There’s some people that treat young people with contempt but you’re clearly not one of them.

Well aside from “nothing” being entirely fair, the Waspi cohort resoundingly rejected the pledge for compensation from the Labour party at 2019 election in favour of living out their Brexit fantasy. It wasn’t in the 2024 Labour manifesto.

On this I think we agree. But the point being made is it’s not just that older generations have had time to accrue more wealth, they had opportunities younger generations don’t. Compensating people because they didn’t get to retire at 60 from pockets of those who won’t get to retire until 70 = wrong

I’m referring to the fact people work every bit as hard as they used to!

The Waspi generation rejected the Labour pledge in 2019 in favour of Get Brexit Done.

I’m sure you know your family situation and I’m sure they all worked very hard. But the idea that this is why the elder generations have most of the wealth is completely false.

The robbing pensioners have been foiled.

You should not have made those promises.

They were told.

You can disagree but you are wrong.

Not compensating people because they didn’t get to retire at 60 from the pockets of people who will be lucky to get to retire at 70 sounds like excellent morals to me.

2019: when the public, especially the more elderly, resoundingly rejected Labour in favour of getting Brexit done.

They haven’t though.

Irrelevant seeing as it wasn’t pledged in the 2024 election.

Except the pledge was for the 2019 election where they were roundly rejected.

Are these ordered by text width?

You can’t have a fifty year lead-in to changing the pension age. It’s already be out of date twenty years before it came into being.