General election: Tories announce ‘Triple Lock Plus’ pension allowance
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3ggvrp8v28o
by Broccoli_Glory
General election: Tories announce ‘Triple Lock Plus’ pension allowance
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3ggvrp8v28o
by Broccoli_Glory
25 comments
Oh eff off. Pensioners don’t pay NI on their pension income. Why should they also benefit from a higher zero-rate threshold? A working person on the same income would be paying more tax already.
It’s almost like the Tories are just trying to be as dreadful as they possibly can for working age people.
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said the scheme “shows **we are on the side of pensioners**,” who the Tories say will **save £275 by 2030.**
Pensioners of course being the best demographic to target for five year plans. No matter how unbelievably generous.
Have the Tories unveiled their 3 word slogan yet? Maybe that’ll save them.
Daft idea. Whilst it fixes a future problem, it’s probably not something the average pensioner was consciously thinking about compared to, say, NHS waiting lists, or the cost of heating (although perhaps people won’t be thinking of fuel bills so much during a summer election, another reason to have it now?). Meanwhile it’s reminded everyone else of fiscal drag.
We’ve got no money and you’ll probably be dead before we have to even think of implementing this.
Vote Toryeeeeeeeeeeee
The desperation of basically trying to get every old person to vote tory to salvage some seats really isn’t a long term strategy.
More money for the pensioners. National service for the young.
What do you mean there’s a generational divide going on?
Give with one hand, take away with the other..
You can have higher pensions, but he’s bringing in assisted doing to kill you all off at 75 and slash the pension bill!
£2.4 billion, to be funded by “clamping down on tax avoidance”, like the £2.5 billion for national service from “clamping down on tax avoidance”.
So why haven’t they clamped 5 billion quid out of tax avoidance the last 14 years?
The average pensioner would benefit more from fixing the cost of living crisis, the desperate pandering is beyond pathetic at this point.
They should just go full mask off and explain their strategy of human sacrifice of the millennials and zoomers to further empower the boomers and gen xers
Pensions were being taxed a couple of decades ago. It’s only a problem now because they haven’t been taxed for a while.
More Tory pandering to the only demographic likely to vote for them with their sense of entitlement
It’s all about their base. Keep the elderly sweet. Limit their losses. The individual benefits from their announcement aren’t much (£2 a week), hopefully most pensioners will see it as such.
Cynical politics to appeal to the demographic who vote the most.
And if you believe that, you’ll believe anything!
So what have they been doing for the last 14 years?
We are six days into the campaign, the Conservatives have thrown all their toys out of the pram and are announcing wild nonsense already.
I get the feeling that Labours ability to just ignore them in a General Election campaign is driving them completely mad.
This is the second time in three days they have announced something rather insane. If it’s anything like the first then Labour will just shrug argue past them like it’s an episode of The Rest is Politics and move onto the next place in the country.
By the time we hit mid-June, we might see Sunak have an actual mental breakdown in the TV debate.
Tories employing Jose Mourinho’s park the bus strategy. Sure, it’ll win the rural vote but the large towns and cities are already lost.
The problem with the housing market in the UK is that it is driven by greed. The price for a house in any area is usually around the sale price of a new house. New build houses in the UK are higher than in other European countries when in reality they use the same materials. House prices should simply be lower than they are.
It’s not the fault of the people who bought houses in 1980 that young people of today can’t afford to do the same. When I bought my house the only new thing in it was the bed. I had a 35 years mortgage, inflation was 15%, we had a second hand TV that sat on a cardboard box, and my surplus income was bugger all.
Solve the greed in house building and house prices will be affordable again.
The tories trying to milk the golden generation/boomer pensioner vote with this national service and triple lock talk… While forgetting that many of those old biddies (quite openly) don’t like brown people, and their party leader is a brown person. Boomers also love driving, and the roads are totally f’ed up right now.
Woooooooow 100 pounds a year !!! Will cost the economy 2.4 billion, with each pensioner being 8 quid a month better off. What a fu£&#ibg waste of time, effort and money
Just what the world needs right now -even more inequality.. Vote tactically so these Selfservatives finally get what they deserve in the GE.
Have we tried ‘Kill the poor’. https://youtu.be/s_4J4uor3JE?si=4on18o0ouRzKOxoF
Tories: unpaid national service for the youth, tax breaks for the old.
They know who butters their bread, and aren’t even trying to hide it.
This fucks me off. If the base rate of tax is too high raise it for everyone!
Let’s give the generation that took everything something more to buy their votes!
Tories: Vote for us we’ll make young people “volunteer” to wipe your arse and you won’t even need to pay them with the extra money we’re throwing at you.