Re: Remember in 2017 : Mon Sep 30, 2024 9:41 am  

MjM wrote:

Yes, sod the pensioners, they're the ones who got us into this mess.

And if they'd put more into their pensions when they were younger they wouldn't be reliant on £300 now.

Tend to agree regarding saving more. However spaffing gazillions up the wall on foreigners makes me a tad more sympathetic to our own people.

Re: Remember in 2017 : Mon Sep 30, 2024 10:06 am  

wotsupcas wrote:

Tend to agree regarding saving more. However spaffing gazillions up the wall on foreigners makes me a tad more sympathetic to our own people.

Yeah, that's really not the key issue facing the UK, no matter what the right wing press will tell you.

Re: Remember in 2017 : Mon Sep 30, 2024 1:24 pm  

MjM wrote:

Yeah, that's really not the key issue facing the UK, no matter what the right wing press will tell you.

It's part of a wider problem giving our money away all over the globe when it should be spent on our own

Re: Remember in 2017 : Mon Sep 30, 2024 3:58 pm  

wotsupcas wrote:

It's part of a wider problem giving our money away all over the globe when it should be spent on our own

It's utterly trivial compared to the real issues facing our country: low if not negative growth, low investment, low productivity and vast wealth inequality.

Re: Remember in 2017 : Mon Sep 30, 2024 7:04 pm  

MjM wrote:

It's utterly trivial compared to the real issues facing our country: low if not negative growth, low investment, low productivity and vast wealth inequality.

I don't think £30 billion+ is in any way trivial

Re: Remember in 2017 : Mon Sep 30, 2024 9:07 pm  

wotsupcas wrote:

I don't think £30 billion+ is in any way trivial

2% of government spending. Of which a tiny amount goes on whatever you're whining about.
Please, focus on the really important stuff, not the trivia that you read in the Tory press.