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I fully agree with your last five words. My argument is that leaders of the country need to be transparent, no matter their political allegiance.

The press have been reporting it, not just social media. Why do you feel a need to defend them?

Maybe politicians should be more open and honest with their financial dealings.

The Chancellor, Sunak, gave furlough money to his wife, for firms now closed down. You think people are desperately trying to make conspiracies?

Thank you for posting your experience. Many pensioners are like you, and quite a few are renting for various reasons. The very rich get away with not paying taxes, with money they can’t even spend on a lifetime but ordinary pensioners are being taxed. It’s a bad state of affairs. There’s even...

Lord Bamford, who paid for Boris & Carrie’s wedding, put Johnson up, rent free in his mother’s flat, backed Brexit etc etc https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/sep/27/who-is-anthony-bamford-the-billionaire-super-donor

A poverty refers to when a person or household does not have the minimum amount of income needed to meet the minimum living requirements needed over an extended period of time. In other words, they cannot meet their basic needs.

I wouldn’t say the majority have. Women of my age are unlikely to have a full work pension, as very few jobs were open to married women in the 70s. Part time work didn’t really get going until the 80s, and part timers were excluded from works pension schemes. There was also the option of a...

As did I, which prompted some good banter when I worked with colleagues supporting West Ham, Palace, Spurs etc etc.

Monitoring bank accounts, to see if pensions can be reduced, cutting back care facilities to practically zero so all care has to be paid for. My friend was pressured to sell her three bedroomed house to pay for her husband's care home, when he had a stroke. She stated her daughter lived out of...

It is, but why the snooping in bank accounts?

Oh, that's alright then. There was also Pritti Patel referring to people as working and nonworking units.

The only leap is the final discussion. The rest has already happened. Pensioners joke about the winter fuel allowance so it should be means tested? Exactly how many pensioners joke about wine funds? Numbers please not apocryphal gossip.

It’s already a two tier system. from April 2024: The full state pension rose from £203.85 a week to £221.20 a week, or £11,502 a year. The basic state pension rose from £156.20 a week to £169.50 a week, or £8,814 a year

Would you be happy living on £9K a year? A very small private pension of £3500 takes you above the tax threshold so paying income tax. That is below the minimum wage. There are a few wealthy pensioners but they aren’t the norm and I can guarantee they aren’t women.

Step by stealthy step, like boiling a frog. First of all, they label the state pension a benefit, then the freeze the tax threshold, reduce the NI payments, then have the right to examine bank accounts of benefit claimants (including pensioners) and now, discussing the idea of means testing the...

Orwell was 40 years early. Newspeak must replace Oldspeak.

That’s horrific.

It certainly isn’t common sense which is her portfolio.

Esther McVey is going full loopy today, by banning rainbow lanyards for civil servants and saying they will have to wear uniform lanyards (mine used to be BHAFC) and she doesn't want foreign students coming to British universities (their fees keep the unis open)