Labour’s Broken Promises and Two-Tier Governance Are Dividing Britain

[James105]

2 hours ago, Chomper Higgot said:

 

Gordon Brown is not a member of the Starmer Government.

 

 

 

So what? I never said he was I (correctly) stated he was Labour.   You were the one banging on about how private sector pensions should be improved and I pointed out one of the reasons they are so bad is because of idiotic Labour policies to grab relatively small amounts of money that has devastating consequences.

[Chomper Higgot]

1 minute ago, James105 said:

 

So what? I never said he was I (correctly) stated he was Labour.   You were the one banging on about how private sector pensions should be improved and I pointed out one of the reasons they are so bad is because of idiotic Labour policies to grab relatively small amounts of money that has devastating consequences.

I regularly check my private industry pensions, they’re in a healthy condition.

I would dearly like to see more working people in the private sector have access to final salary pension schemes.

 

Perhaps that explains why I’m not eaten with envy and keen to see others have their pension rights stripped from them.

 

I sincerely hope you made the right choices too.

[cdnvic]

Several posts were removed for personal attacks, advocating violence, and replies to the aforementioned.

[theblether]

I rarely discuss British politics. I will say that the level of rage I'm seeing is off the scale. The attack on farmers is unbelievable. My mate, who's a ninth generation farmer and unmarried, is in a panic as he reckons he's leaving a crippling inheritance tax bill to his nieces and nephews. These are just working class kids. He thought he would die on the farm, he's now looking to sell and distribute the cash before death. 

 

Who's going to buy? Companies - and they'll turn the British countryside into factory farms. Generations of independent knowledge and care will disappear. It's absurd. 

 

You're not a farmer, you don't care? Right - my Dad has just discovered that his pension scheme is liable to 40% tax. This is a man who started off down the mines, and worked in engineering and quarries his entire life. He lives a frugal life, he remembers poverty, as does my mother. 

 

He now has eighteen months to obliterate his pension savings or lose 40% to the tax man. He's just recovering from an illness, not doing well at the moment, and he gets hit with this just before his 80th birthday. It's cruel. 

[Social Media]

An off topic conspiracey nonsense post removed along with another off topic video from the same poster