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Due to the strain on staffing levels, that naked lady may not be of the generation you're hoping for!!

Strictly speaking, once you have reached the minimum contribution period then you don't get more pension even though you will continue to pay NI on earnings! At the end of the day they should get rid of NI and just add it to income tax.

Feb 24, office of national statistics, only 320k pension households living off just the state pension and other benefits. EDIT: although that seems to be at odds with research by Sunlife which suggest 20% of men and 33% of women over 50 relying on state pension!!

The vast majority of people are not just living off the state pension though. The majority have work pensions to supplement it. Not necessarily making them wealthy but not on the breadline.

I was in that group as I'm quite partial to an argument but you can't argue with idiots so I left. As you say, it was originally set up to argue against the removal of a mini roundabout in the centre of town which, to be fair, worked pretty well, and was replaced by wider shared pavements...

Interesting aside, the Commissioner for Parliamentary Standards is currently investigating allegations against 7 MPs. Each and every one is a Tory!!!!

Which is why he is deliberately aligning himself with Reform and their 'ilk'.

It is insidious. It's why companies like Cambridge Analyitica operated. A drip feed of stories posted on social media which reinforce someone's prejudices and probably drives them further towards and extreme view. The next election could be worse for underhand tactics, especially with the...

So which part of the 2019 manifesto are you referring to?

Funny how all the tory apologists are jumping to defend Cleverley and try to underplay what was said.

Not sure that's what the problem is. Private sector wage rises are a cost to the employer and they generally recoup that by increasing the price of their product/service and therefore affecting inflation. Public sector payrises don't equate to an increase in the service price of their...

Nice, comical and accurate.

Out of interest, is there any evidence that migrants, once processed and accepted, are a burden to the nation? I agree with you in that we need to process them quicker but then once again that's a resource decision being made by this government.

Don't disagree with you at all. I was replying to worthingseagull's comment about safe routes. Damn sight easier to cross a land border than a water one. This government have pretty much eliminated all safe routes hence the boats.

Just to remind you, we're an island!!!

This bill will fail just as all the other bill/ideas that this government have proposed. The big problem is that they don't process applications quick enough. People bang on about illegal asylum seekers however, they are not illegal until their application has been rejected which means it must...

Not read the whole thread but who approached who to write this book? Either way, Oakeshot would have seen the opportunity straight away. Let's not forget anything she can do to undermine the Tories could drive voters to the Reform Party whose leader is Richard Tice, Oakeshot's partner!!!

As an aside, I see Ipsa have awarded MPs a 2.9% pay rise on the basis that this is the average public sector pay rise. What they don't say that even despite this, MPs salary is, in real terms, greater than it was in 2010 whereas the other 'public sector' workers are well behind.

Not sure if anyone has commented on that but there are far more than 48 unions in the UK, more like 130. But you are right about 11 affiliating to Labour.