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[Politics] Labour Party meltdown incoming.......
- Thread starter nevergoagain
- Start date
- Jul 10, 2003
- 27,936
Thanks. It was a genuine question born out of interest, as you had said previously that you tried to avoid political threads
They are two different points, but let's put the compensation aside.
A group of intelligent people have spent a long time (I think it's actually years, not months) working through all the detail of this matter, taking evidence from here, there and everywhere. And they say the DWP were at fault.
You have done no work, no reading and have no knowledge, and you've said they are wrong and the WASPI women should have known.
That's just a really bizarre take.
I'm 53 and I've only just found out I can take some of my pension in two years' time. What a f***ing idiot I am. (I actually am)
- Aug 7, 2003
- 8,127
The way things are going I can see a future Tory / Reform alliance securing a big majority in 2029. Angry voters decided the last election and they’ll decide the next.
Rdodge30
Well-known member
- Dec 30, 2022
- 756
In 2022 Sir Keir stated that they had suffered an ‘historic injustice’ and deserved ‘fair and fast’ compensation. Accompanied by a photo of SKS posing with WASPI campaigners
I have actually seen on these pages someone desperately trying to defend this by focusing on the word fair and saying now SKS has had a chance to look into it he’s decided it’s fair they don’t get anything
To be clear I am absolutely not in favour of waspi getting anything, it’s a ridiculous campaign and it’s astonishing that it is being classed by some as a case of inequality when in actual fact retirement ages are now equal.
Rdodge30
Well-known member
- Dec 30, 2022
- 756
I don’t see Reform forming a Government, it’s nigh on impossible for a new party to achieve that in the modern era. SDP, Greens, UKIP etc. they are all even more insignificant than the Liberal party. What they do is affect parliamentary results indirectly by splitting the vote for other parties. Labour will surely get re elected if Reform take even a third of Tory votes
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Kalimantan Gull
Well-known member
Exactly where I am, except my opinion is to praise him for seeing sense, coming round to our point of view and making the correct decision, not attack him for his previous position.In 2022 Sir Keir stated that they had suffered an ‘historic injustice’ and deserved ‘fair and fast’ compensation. Accompanied by a photo of SKS posing with WASPI campaigners
I have actually seen on these pages someone desperately trying to defend this by focusing on the word fair and saying now SKS has had a chance to look into it he’s decided it’s fair they don’t get anything
To be clear I am absolutely not in favour of waspi getting anything, it’s a ridiculous campaign and it’s astonishing that it is being classed by some as a case of inequality when in actual fact retirement ages are now equal.
Rdodge30
Well-known member
- Dec 30, 2022
- 756
Really?? I’m not buying that. How long did it take him to come to the conclusion that they didn’t merit compensation.
Looked very similar to Reeves campaigning for election on stopping the Tories from taking away the winter fuel allowance.
Dont get me wrong its not the end of the world it’s just amateur hour
LamieRobertson
Not awoke
Was increasing employers national insurance in their manifesto? Was abolishing the winter fuel allowance in their manifesto? I can’t recall
LamieRobertson
Not awoke
“coming round to our point of view” ….clearly he hasn’t come round to quite a few people’s point of view
LamieRobertson
Not awoke
If means testing the WFA made sense why do you think a previous Labour chancellor who introduced the allowance in the first place didn’t?
closing loophole where large farms etc……hmm seems to have affected a lot of farmers who wouldn’t be considered as the people who the electorate would like targeted
- Jul 10, 2003
- 27,936
Multi millionaires exploiting Tax loopholes to avoid paying a fair share is exactly the type of people this elector wanted targeted.
And the simple fact is that even after this, these multi millionaires will still only pay half of what I (and anyone else) will have to pay, with three times the tax free allowance I (and anyone else) will get, and 10 years to pay it (when anyone else will have to pay immediately), but it seems a little fairer to me.
And, for completeness, I don't agree with compensation on Waspi and I agree with means testing WFA, but believe the level of cut off has been set too low. The need to invest to rebuild our crumbling country in all areas, requires people to step up and pay their fair share and that includes everyone.
Of course there is a way to avoid all these constant cuts and tax rises, but you know me, I don't like to mention it
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Kalimantan Gull
Well-known member
We have a lot of people struggling to make ends meet in our country now, big waiting lists for the NHS, so I'm sorry I'm not going to lose sleep over well-off pensioners like my folks not getting a £200 handout of taxpapers money, nor for landowners who have inherited over a million pounds worth of land and buildings having to pay some tax over that threshold.
fly high
Well-known member
Except the true multi millionaires who Reeves wants to target can afford expensive accounts & ways to avoid it. This has been done to death but she could & should have made the cut off higher.Multi millionaires exploiting Tax loopholes to avoid paying a fair share is exactly the type of people this elector wanted targeted.
And the simple fact is that even after this, these multi millionaires will still only pay half of what I (and anyone else) will have to pay, with three times the tax free allowance I (and anyone else) will get, and 10 years to pay it (when anyone else will have to pay immediately), but it seems a little fairer to me
And, for completeness, I don't agree with compensation on Waspi and I agree with means testing WFA, but believe the level of cut off has been set too low. The need to invest to rebuild our crumbling country in all areas, requires people to step up and pay their fair share and that includes everyone.
fly high
Well-known member
So give a f*** about people who get £1 over the pensions credit limit...... Good for you.
Nor is anyone, and noone has suggested we should.
What about those on just over £11k a year, no savings and for whom the £200/£300 was a lifeline to help them get through the winter months with a small amount of heating on the very coldest days?
- Jul 10, 2003
- 27,936
You think that someone with over £3M isn't a true multi millionaire and that limit should have been even higher than the £3M set (three times the limit for any other person in the UK)
It rises to 57 in 4 years time.
I know your response it to another poster, but the thrust of the WASPI argument seems to be they didn’t get a letter from the HMRC.
I have tried to understand thier issue, I’m happy to be enlightened, but I don’t understand how this can be the basis of compensation. Aligning pensions was in the news at the time. Surely most, if not all, knew this? Surely people seek their own advice on pensions, professionals and/or friends or family, and don’t wait for a letter from the Pensions Dept?