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nicksar

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I said a while ago that having met the Labour candidate for Rugby I was going to vote Labour (have never not voted Labour tbh)...the deal had been 100% sealed now having received a letter from Sir Kier Starmer personally thanking me as one of Britain's older generation for the hard work and contribution I've made to the country... he's promised to look after me and my fellow "Retirees".
I'm framing the letter 😁.
 

shmmeee

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The problems of predicted under capacity seem to be because of plans to use HS2 rolling stock on existing lines. So don’t do that.

That is one of several problems, I don’t know the details but then surely you’re not having any straight through services from the South to the North?
 

fatso

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I said a while ago that having met the Labour candidate for Rugby I was going to vote Labour (have never not voted Labour tbh)...the deal had been 100% sealed now having received a letter from Sir Kier Starmer personally thanking me as one of Britain's older generation for the hard work and contribution I've made to the country... he's promised to look after me and my fellow "Retirees".
I'm framing the letter 😁.
Did he promise to keep the triple lock?
 

nicksar

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That's refreshing. Our state pension is pitifully low as it stands, if your paying rent into retirement your going to struggle, even if your a home owner £12k is not enough to pay bills, heat your house and have any kind of reasonable standard of living.
The letter states "With my fully costed and fully funded plans the state pension will increase year on year with the triple lock over the whole parliament".
 

MalcSB

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That is one of several problems, I don’t know the details but then surely you’re not having any straight through services from the South to the North?
Is it beyond the poor little lambs to get off one train and get on another?
 

MalcSB

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Interesting how your obsession with council tax overrides anything else of concern
I think Ive mentioned council tax once - to you - reminding you that increases are permanent (being under political control) whereas interest rates are temporary and down to the independent Bank of England - the independence being introduced by Gordon Brown.
 

MalcSB

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The letter states "With my fully costed and fully funded plans the state pension will increase year on year with the triple lock over the whole parliament".
Did he promise not to raid workers occupational pensions again, like they did last time?
 

PVA

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Ha that's amazing.

Alanis Morissette Reaction GIF by MOODMAN
 

nicksar

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Did he promise not to raid workers occupational pensions again, like they did last time?
No he never mentioned occupational pension schemes Malc.
I like many thousands of others got rinsed on a frozen pension in the 1990's by a snake oil salesmen from Allied Dunbar though...cost me many thousands of pound's, eventually got a £2k compensation ,the pension deposit would have been better if I stuck under my mattress tbh...I think it was Thatcher that allowed that type of thing to take place 👍
 
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Grendel

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Preferably internal combustion engine,

oh yes brand £80k Merc hybrid with the bik of 5% and a plug that’s never being used
 

MalcSB

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No he never mentioned occupational pension schemes Malc.
I like many thousands of others got rinsed on a frozen pension in the 1990's by a snake oil salesmen from Allied Dunbar though...cost me many thousands of pound's, eventually got a £2k compensation ,the pension deposit would have been better if I stuck under my mattress tbh...I think it was Thatcher that allowed that type of thing to take place 👍
That’s shit but so is the effect that Brown’s taxation of pension schemes had. Labour also introduced the lifetime savings allowance, again shit.

Tories changed the measure for increases in additional state pension from RPI to CPI, which meant public sector pensions followed suit despite years of the handbook saying that they would rise by RPI.

Actually, they are all shit.
 

nicksar

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That’s shit but so is the effect that Brown’s taxation of pension schemes had. Labour also introduced the lifetime savings allowance, again shit.

Tories changed the measure for increases in additional state pension from RPI to CPI, which meant public sector pensions followed suit despite years of the handbook saying that they would rise by RPI.

Actually, they are all shit.
Indeed they are all "shit" in reality.👍
 

Earlsdon_Skyblue1

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The Green Party getting absolutely pulled apart on Panorama.

Seemingly focused on wealth inequality abroad rather than sorting out what's going on at home. Have a long term policy of 'a world without borders'. Good luck with that.

It's a bit odd that members of other parties are being ridiculed on here, but absolute silence over the behaviour of some members of some other certain parties. One from the Greens is still on the ballot paper having likened Hamas to the French Resistance in the Second World War. Another called for Israel to be wiped out.

Like this thread, they're completely out of touch with most people in society and lack any real common sense.
 

oakey

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Been out canvassing etc for 10 days (in Dudley)

People not very enthused. In order of frequency, issues raised are ...
Need a change
NHS
Cost of living
Energy bills
Immigration
Crime
Potholes

Of those who expressed a view ...
One Conservative, 3 or 4 Reform, 1 libdem, 20 odd Labour but ...
Roughly 30 per cent undecided.
The tory here had 52per cent of vote and big majority in 2019

Too close to call it yet
 

oakey

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Note - camera doorbells mean some will not answer when they see who is calling. A lot don't answer even though it's obvious they are in.
Shy tories I think.
 

Evo1883

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Labour canvasser knocked my door today, voting for them anyway tbh , said cheers and goodbye
 

wingy

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No he never mentioned occupational pension schemes Malc.
I like many thousands of others got rinsed on a frozen pension in the 1990's by a snake oil salesmen from Allied Dunbar though...cost me many thousands of pound's, eventually got a £2k compensation ,the pension deposit would have been better if I stuck under my mattress tbh...I think it was Thatcher that allowed that type of thing to take place 👍
Unless you were miss sold by a company scheme and the union fights it for you,cost em a few bob that did!!!
 
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Hearing a lot about the undecideds in the last few days. If they still don't know who they want to vote for isn't there an above average chance they just won't bother voting?
I thought tbh it was mostly people who didn;t want to tell you what they really thought.
 

oakey

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Hearing a lot about the undecideds in the last few days. If they still don't know who they want to vote for isn't there an above average chance they just won't bother voting?
Yeah but impossible to say at this point. Lots of postal votes. Way more than I realised.
A few people hailing us to say they've already voted, Labour.
 

nicksar

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Note - camera doorbells mean some will not answer when they see who is calling. A lot don't answer even though it's obvious they are in.
Shy tories I think.
The Conservatives never knock our door when canvassing in the village even for local elections,I assume they know it's a Labour house.
 

Brighton Sky Blue

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Have a long term policy of 'a world without borders'. Good luck with that.
You’ll find it funny no doubt but this is the long term vision I have for the world also. I also know it has nil chance of happening in my or probably any lifetime.

There are too many countries in the world, too many people trying to find ways they’re different from other people just by birthplace.
 

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