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- Apr 2, 2024
I'm fine with both taking a chainsaw to public funding for immigration (legal and otherwise) and asylum obligations, but that's absolutely no reason not to dismantle the nonsense that is "but wor ould peepil".There is money for school meals, and there is money for old people. The problem is the bastards in power who are spending that money on putting up immigrant scroungers in hotels at a staggering cost.
The ‘elderly’ contingent at the moment are the earliest boomers, born as the war ended. The ones I know grew up with rationing, no electricity or heating past a single coal fire, and outside toilets. They worked hard, from 14 or 16 when they left school, paid in all their lives and now own a small semi they keep neat. I do not begrudge them a penny. They are entitled to the healthcare and pensions they paid all their lives for.
We should be looking after our own cradle to grave, and while there’s a single British kid going to school hungry or a single pensioner too poor to put the heating on we shouldn’t be spending a single penny on young fighting age men from the third world.
They didn't buy some kind of retirement plan by simply paying the taxes levied on them. That money was gone the year it was raised to keep the old bastards of the time. They have this idea their 'stamp' was somehow hypothecated for them. It wasn't. Social security, in all its forms, is a Ponzi scheme, and they are holding the grenade when it goes off. It is absolute simpery at the societal level for the millenials and even worse, the zoomers to continue to pay a level of taxation they genuinely can't afford to maintain the lifestyles of boomers who assumed it would always be a land of milk and honey.
Keeping the triple lock on pensions whilst actively cutting funding to schools, in an economy that outside of the EU, now needs to compete more than ever in manufacturing and high skills work, is slow economic suicide. The slide into being a second world country is being actively accelerated by "but wor ould peepil" and their ever-escalating costs to the public purse and the NHS.
There's a big fucking hole in the boat, and those who can still swim can't keep all of the weak afloat. The only correct choice for the future of any of the UK is to keep the kids' heads above water.
I don't care how hard people worked in the 1960s. They are a burden now on a working age population that can't afford them. The economy of the component parts of the UK is undergoing a painful structural transition, and everyone is going to have to eat shit. The polydrug and carer-dependent army in their seventies and eighties is the physical manifestation of a luxury belief. We can't afford them any more. This "but we promised them" blah that gets reflexively rolled out has to stop. I didn't promise these people a fucking thing, and I'm not willingly paying for public services we can't afford now that will never benefit anyone currently paying for them. The Ponzi scheme has collapsed. Too bad, so sad. These people's own parents never meaningfully benefited from this scheme; it was a post-war aberration based on escalating growth that has collapsed. There is no fucking milk and honey.
We should look after our own in the cradle. The grave will come for them soon enough, and I'm not interested in mortgaging the future of the UK's young people to keep the decrepit hanging on.
People who are heavily concerned about the elderly, much as with immigrants, can always feel free to take them in and care for them themselves.
There is a lack of realism in the UK voter base about quite how soon some really hard choices are going to have to be made, and quite how hard they are going to have to be.