Pension triple lock gone

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  1. Egh

    Egham Tyke Well-Known Member

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    Just when I'm 31 days from retirement :)
     
    Egham Tyke, Sep 7, 2021
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    That lasted a long time, funny timing that with no election due!
     
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    Egham Tyke Well-Known Member

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    It's the 8% hit that did it Helen. Fine to waste money on vanity projects like HS2 though
     
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    And it'll be a Boris pledge to reinstate it just after the next election, so he looks like a hero and millions will lap it up.....again.
     
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    Egham Tyke Well-Known Member

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    Not me. I live in Runnymede ex Philip Hammond country but there's no way I'd vote Conservative even though I know it'll never be a Labour seat
     
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    It's not "gone" forever, it's been suspended for 12 months, and the CPI 2.5% increase will be applied instead of the 8% that would have been applied under the triple lock. I'm not saying it's the right thing to do, but let's be accurate.
     
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    slippery slope?
     
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    Or Dido Harding's track and trace.
    I've probably over used that one now, but sod it.
     
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    I'm 6 months off getting my state pension. Just glad that I have a couple of half-decent occupational ones.
     
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    do you genuinely think they will bring it back? Possibly weeks before a GE but can’t see it myself.
     
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    Possibly. It's always easier to do a thing once a precedent has been set. I don't trust these ******** as far as I could throw them, so any talk of it being a one-off should be taken with a pinch of salt. But we'll see...
     
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    Sounds like a target LibDem constituency then :)
     
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    See above.
     
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    HS2 will merely push house prices up in and around it's route . This means banks can create even bigger loans to help their bottom line . It's all one big gravy train , no pun intended .
     
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    You only know Boris is lying when his mouth is moving.

     
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    Change (%) Ben Spencer Con 29,262 54.9
    -6.0 Robert King Lab 10,992 20.6
    -5.3 Rob O'Carroll LD 9,236 17.3
    10.0 Benjamin Smith * Green 1,876 3.5

    Labour finished 2nd but even adding the LD lot in it would be a big turnround needed
     
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    Only ‘suspended for a year’, due to the inflation rise because of the statistical anomaly caused by people coming off furlough.

    though unsurprisingly that very same inflation rise (that’s not real) is cause for the BoE to consider raising interest rates (according to the blue rinse media).
     
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    She had to narrow down the broken promises or she would have been there until tomorrow.

     
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    Makes a change that DePfeffel the liar actually let her ask a question.
     
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    "She's getting sacked in the morning, sacked in the morning, she's getting sacked in the morning..."
     
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