Posted on 08/30/2024 3:55:54 AM PDT by RomanSoldier19
An expert has suggested the UK could see rioting in the streets if the pension age is raised to 71 as some think-tanks are suggest the move is necessary.
Warnings that the retirement age for state pension eligibility must rise to 71 have sparked a furious response.
Experts have told the Labour Government they must act now over the unaffordability of the UK's state pension payment commitments. And one has even suggested the UK could see rioting in the streets if the pension age is raised again.
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Sounds like the UK is just like the US. Waste money on everything and everybody that doesn’t deserve it, and leave the people who were productive high-and-dry and without what they paid into.
Gotta pay for public benefits for all those military age Muslim males flooding into the country somehow.
I know! Let’s cut payments for the old folks’ heating bills and make the peasants work an extra 5 years to pay for the precious precious Muslim hordes we keep importing!
Socialism has always been about taking the money. It’s never been about promised payouts.
If there is rioting the Bobbies should find arresting the elderly a much easier job than arresting young, knife wielding Muslim men.
“Gotta pay for public benefits for all those military age Muslim males flooding into the country somehow.”
I believe that the British government still lets their public complain about pension levels and associated requirements. However, they are not permitted to link their complaints to immigration, or otherwise complain about immigration policies.
Sounds like the UK is just like the US. Waste money on everything and everybody that doesn’t deserve it, and leave the people who were productive high-and-dry and without what they paid into.
The Socialist prey on the elderly and truly disabled to fund their agendas. Retirees can’t fight back, they are dependent. Neither can the disabled. The people who government pick get rich while they suffer, and the economy and currency implodes. History is clear on this, but for some reason many basement dwelling young people will be voting for Harris…….
Maybe they could afford the pensions if they deported all of the freeloading immigrants.
Not to mention that Britain might be a lot more safe and peaceful without all of the followers of the Religion of Peace.
Current life expectancy figures in GB. Not a pleasant situation when you retire at 71.
The UK has a Deep State, too.
And it’s running the UK.
The NHS, the folks who’s motto appears to “The doctor will not see you now”, is the UK’s largest employer, private or public sector.
Over a million employees.
Good like finding out how many of those actually see patients.
Let’s hear it for socialized medicine.
The corrupt government gives money to freeloaders and soaks the productive, only to betray the producers what they are owed in the end. They need those who are dependent on the government to keep power. They don’t need the law-abiding, tax-paying, backbone of society, and it’s sad to say, but it’s common sense that if you leach the backbone too much, everything will fall. They don’t care.... because power, even if they go down with it
Raising the retirement age only works for those able to find employment and are healthy enough to hold a job. The ultimate solution for the fiduciary problem of sustaining an elderly population is euthanasia. “Voluntary” euthanasia is being enacted in western countries today. End of life counseling is a feature of Obamacare. In Canada the government run healthcare system is encouraging voluntary euthanasia.
Like all leftist social programs it is beginning slowly so the population can consider the early termination of the elderly to be normal. Then the end game is quickly enacted. Expect compulsory euthanasia for the extremely ill, particularly after state run single payer healthcare becomes enacted. Then comes age determined denial of healthcare and forced termination of life.
Once involuntary euthanasia becomes common place, governments no longer face funding issues with pensions and healthcare for the elderly. Eliminating the beneficiary eliminates the expense. Plus there is the added benefit of using confiscatory estate taxes to redeploy the assets of the dead for the common good.
They will learn the hard way
What is the London mayor saying?
Check your State Pension age [UK]
There are some changes to the State Pension age at the moment. For people reaching State Pension age now, it will be age 66 for women and men. For those born after 5 April 1960, there will be a phased increase in State Pension age to 67, and eventually 68.
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Sounds like the UK is just like the US. Waste money on everything and everybody that doesn’t deserve it, and leave the people who were productive high-and-dry and without what they paid into.
Meanwhile, the parasites (who will riot at the drop of a hat) get coddled.
And all the while they bring in millions of immigrants and put them up in 4-star hotels and on the dole.
Unfortunately, there are no mid-term elections in the UK. So Britain is stuck with Keir Stalin for another five years.
Socialist chickens coming home to roost.
The UK had an UNTENABLE system before the invasion of the religion of peace.
The invasion just sped up the reckoning.
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