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    1. Cool, so just another 8 or 9 billion for the chancellor to find down the back of the sofa, every year, forever, in addition to the £138 billion it already costs.

      Very good and sustainable.

    2. Neat_Owl_807 on

      So working age families will have to pay more tax or accept far worse public services to support pensioners who live in mortgage free houses.

      To make matters more frustrating they achieved those properties often with one working parent.

      Oh and those houses they live in are now unaffordable doing the same jobs they did back in the day

    3. ukredimps2k on

      Some generations have all the luck… why is everything so damn one sided. How about we give younger generations a chance?!

    4. Already the biggest welfare bill by far. The Tories really set a trap with this policy. It’s rapidly bankrupting the country and will get worse every year.

    5. I_miss_Chris_Hughton on

      The last 15 years of economic growth have been funneled into pensions and social care. Tbe previous 30 had been dumped into tax cuts for that same generation.

      Its the greatest looting of the state ever imagined.

      The state pension should be tied directly to the budget surplus of the prior 50 years. Of rhere wasnt one, tough shit.

    6. SmackedWithARuler on

      Oh good, I personally never wanted to retire so I’m glad I can pick up this bill for the rest of my life.

    7. Shawn_The_Sheep777 on

      The triple lock should be scrapped but while pensioners are the only ones that tend to vote in a great numbers it would be political suicide for the party that scrapped it. Hopefully lowering the voting age may help to redress the balance

    8. I’d fucking love a near 5 percent pay increase. But most of us will be getting at least a real terms cut to pay for this. Fuck the triple lock.

    9. cherrysteve2010 on

      Tax the fucking rich already holy shit im so sick of this. This wouldn’t even be controversial with a wealth tax raising more money.

    10. SomeoneCouldSay on

      We really should stop funneling all the wealth from the workers to the retired. Boomers should pick themselves up by the bootstraps. They’ve had their whole lives to save up for their retirement. If they don’t have enough to support their lifestyles they should go get a job like the rest of us.

    11. We can end the triple lock now or end it in like 2 years. Or we can tax the rich. What’s it gonna be

    12. Apprehensive_Bus_543 on

      Good, when do we reach the point when pensioners don’t need all the other crap like winter fuel allowance etc

    13. LMAO of course they will…… It’s been wild as a millennial ! i’m paying for a pension scheme that I will likely never see myself. I’m honestly expecting it to be means tested long before I get there.

    14. esteban-colberto on

      If pensioners are mostly voting for Reform or Tories, why doesn’t Labour bite the bullet and scrap triple lock? It will help them save money for spending somewhere else that is needed for their actual voter base.

    15. It’s actually fucked. Limiting winter fuel payments was probably the biggest factor in making this government so unpopular. Changing the triple lock would be electoral suicide. At this point, pensioners are essentially a protected political class and idk how any government can possibly deal with it.

    16. cartesian5th on

      So Labour turn around every six months and drone on about „tough decisions“ and „broadest shoulders“ while they spunk billions in tax revenues up the wall on this mental unqualified handout

    17. Lovecraftian666 on

      BBC comments section full of boomers thinking the state pension is a piggy bank they’ve paid into (it’s not it is paid by current taxpayers) and young people are being misled about it lol 

    18. beIIe-and-sebastian on

      Fuck it. Run a referendum on scrapping the triple lock. If No then have ranked choice options of what should be cut instead to pay for it.

    19. Tell you what isn’t going to rise by 4.7% – my salary.

      Likewise, the ~£35,000 a year that the govern gets in revenue from me isn’t going to rise by that much.

    20. Significant-Gene9639 on

      This is literally taking food out of the mouths of and clothes off the backs of children of working parents to fund the future inheritance of the middle class.

    21. fullpurplejacket on

      I’ll say it again, land tax, a few quid tourist tax, mega corporation tax for companies that use local roads and infrastructure but divvent pay for them (cough cough Amazon I’m lookin at you Bezos!) and holiday home tax in tourist driven microeconomies.

      Don’t @ me either guys, I don’t reply to comments unless I get an award because I’m anxious of confrontation 🤣

    22. Meanwhile most workers have had sub-inflationary pay rises for the past few years. All worth it to subsidise our geriatric overlords though

    23. CaptainHindsight92 on

      Can someone explain to me why the state pension is locked at or above inflation but wages aren’t? Surely for one to be the other has to be as well?

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