Lets Hit The Pensioners.

[gulliver1]

Richi Sunak's plan to abandon the "Triple lock" for state pensions should trigger an early General Election.
Sunak has U turned on the Conservative pledge made by Liz Truss to keep the Triple Lock .Which requires pensions to rise with inflation. This is a decision being made by the Multi Millionaire Prime Minister who struts about Downing St wearing his £3,500 suits. Will the state pensioners vote Tory this time .... No Chance.

[New Judge]

//Unlike a simple change of leader, this 'should' trigger an election because it would represent a big deviation from their manifesto commitments, so they no longer have a mandate.//

Under that principle there would be a GE every fortnight. As I continually counsel on here, it is foolish to believe anything any politician of any persuasion tells you. This is especially so when it comes to them telling you about things they plan (or often "promise") to do. Party manifestos are nothing more than an invitation to consider what we might do, given a bit of luck and a following wind. The luck rarely manifests itself and the wind usually blows in the wrong direction. The mandate a party has to govern stems from the number of seats it won at the previous election, nothing more. That mandate remains in place until the next election (unless they lose their majority in the meantime).

[gulliver1]

Wonder what Sunak is planning for the Non Doms who have their permanent home outside the UK to avoid paying UK tax on foreign income, but their permanent home is Really in the UK.

[Bobbisox1]

Bit like yourself then Gully ? :0))

[gulliver1]

13 40 In your dreams , No way would you get me back to live in the UK ,, The weather is crap, especially up north.

[gulliver1]

13.14!

[perseverer]

We constantly hear complaints about wage rises not keeping pace with inflation from one side, and from the other side that the country or the council or whatever cannot afford to make those rises, so everyone has to tighten their belts etc. Pensioners might expect similar constraints on their increases so might not expect to get the full inflation rises. But, and there was always a but coming, how long is it since the then prime minister, after the new chancellor was in place and had taken a hatchet to the budget proposals, was still promising the triple lock. So it's not about the manifesto, it's what was promised about 9 days ago.
And no, whatever finally happens, I don't expect an election.

[Stableford]

So there we have it- completely fact-free fiction from the worn-out record who doesn't even live here. You don't give a flying flamingo about the pensioners, you just want to troll endlessly and seek attention- we get it. Do you really think the pensioners here in the UK are going to switch their vote because someone living overseas spreading rumours says so? Seriously?

[youngmafbog]

//after the new chancellor was in place and had taken a hatchet to the budget proposals, was still promising the triple lock.//

Are you sure about that?

I heard Ministers 'hinting' but I dont remember Hunt promising anything.

Pensioners wanted lock down and got it, well now is time to pay for it.

[Bobbisox1]

Gully hates everything about the UK Stableford, apart from his state pension he gets, or will get from us

[gulliver1]

13.35 Seems like you have a new friend then Bobbi.

[gulliver1]

Rishi Sunak can't tackle the cost of living crisis because he caused it when he as chancellor. lol.

[perseverer]

Ymb - from the FT On Thursday of last week (and numerous other papers)
Liz Truss has been forced to guarantee a 10 per cent rise in the state pension after a backlash from Conservative MPs and Tory-supporting newspapers against the idea of scrapping the so-called “triple lock”.

https://www.ft.com/content/9aa25817-0a1e-441a-9403-ada4ff4080b2

[ladybirder]

Does it make you happy to think that British Pensioners might be struggling Gulliver?

[burlyshirley1]

13:32 I did NOT want lockdown and I'm a pensioner - you don't speak for me !

[gulliver1]

13.54 N0 ! But it annoys me the way these Tory MPs are feathering the nest for their retirement at the expense of the tax paying working class and the pensioners. Perhaps thats what Conservatism is all about.

[New Judge]

//Pensioners wanted lock down and got it,...//

Not all of them, youngmaf.

In fact, I believe the majority of people who were happy with the lockdown were young and middle-aged professionals. They were able to retreat to their homes, no more travelling to work and they could stay their whilst other poor sods who were not able to do likewise fetched and carried for them.

But who ever wanted it to continue (and some still do) there was always a bill to be landed on the doormat and it's arrived. The government has been printing worthless money since 2008 and the pandemic saw an exponential increase in that activity. This was used to keep interest rates at ridiculously low levels and to pay people to do nothing. The reckoning was always going to come and the surprising thing is that it didn't arrive earlier.

[cashier]

I'm a pensioner and I definitely didn't want a lockdown. Don't tar everyone with the same brush.

[gulliver1]

N/J @ 14.44.. Spot on B/A

[Spicerack]

Your hero Stickybottle was mad for lockdowns, gully.

[gulliver1]

18.46 What a pity Your hero,did want a lockdown, instead of saying " Let the bodies pile high "