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Jeremiah Johnson 🌐
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I have no idea how the UK is ever going to get out of the mess they're in, because so many of the causes of their stagnation have supermajority support. The triple lock is *insanely* popular with British voters. Even with 18-34 year olds!
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BREAKING Andy Burnham announces that he will keep the triple lock Senior advisers to the prime minister-in-waiting have raised repeated concerns about the cost of the policy and suggested it should be scrapped Burnham has used an 'Ask Me Anything' session on Reddit to confirm
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Jeremiah Johnson 🌐
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New PM says that what the UK needs is more statism and that 'cost cutting bureaucrats' are to blame for the failure of government programs. Cooked.
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Jeremiah Johnson 🌐
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I hope it's not the case. But I'm pessimistic. Their tax burden is historically high but infrastructure, transit, healthcare, etc, are all in various stages of crisis. The UK left's only ideas are 'more government' and the right want to kick out every immigrant the can find.
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Adamas Nemesis
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Maybe they should poll British voters on whether they support paying a lot more in taxes to get the triple lock. Sure, who *wouldn't* want pensions to go up? I like big pensions too! But *at what cost*? that's the real question.
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Graham Campbell 🐘
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This is super frustrating. NI does not pay into a pot. State pension is a benefit, and while for a short term, ramping it up above earnings growth made sense to reduce poverty... now pensioner poverty is lower than working people... so we need to allocate funds better.
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Joe Waby
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Maybe the UK isn’t is a mess. Maybe it is just how the people who live there like it
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PaperImperium
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But Social Security benefits, adjusted for inflation, have never been higher. It’s July 4th so fun to dunk on the Brits, but we’re not directionally better.
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Phoenix44
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So pensioners should eithef keep their pensions at the same level as earnings, keep them flat in real terms or have them increase at a rate lower than average earnings & that's the problem? The Triple Lock only looks bad because economic forecasts assume virtually no growth.
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Paul Kirkbright
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Do you actually know how much the triple lock will cost in the future compared to increases in line with inflation (RPI because pensioners also face housing costs such as council tax).
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Vyre
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The problem with the UK is that the populace still thinks it's empire rich.
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Chris Croy
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I would love to see some polling about the popularity of legalized mass immigration from the UK to the US. My gut is that with totally neutral framing it would poll at 70%+.
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AM Shamrock
@Red_Diaboli
Triple lock should stay. People who have worked full time for 35yrs plus should be supported in retirement. They’ve contributed to this country. Welfare and benefit street, paying billions to house illegal immigrants needs to be tackled. Sadly this won’t happen under Labour.
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Greg Meyer
@GMMeyer
the emperor honorius, upon being petitioned for help during the fall of roman britain sent in response, “Look after your own fates.” the british did this to themselves, they should look after their own fates
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dylsexic
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Reform(not the party) is often forced on a state by the bond markets. I think this will be the case with UK.
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