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Craig Murray
News from civil servants preparing Liz Kendall's pensions review.
Kendall wants to look at "phasing in" the pension starting with 25% of a pension at age 68 and getting 100% of the pension at age 72.
This will be represented as not affecting the triple lock.
It's already the worst pension in Europe.
Jul 22, 2025 · 2:05 PM UTC

I am not going to survive that. That's not going to work. I am moving from "I don't like this government" to "I will vote for anybody who will throw it out".

I thought you were in the 'old people are overprioritised' camp?

I don't think it matters what camp I'm in. Not everybody has a massive pension and like it or lump it I will be at least partly reliant on the state pension in my old age. We are not talking about disquiet about a political stance I disapprove of, we are talking about having to sell my flat or not being able to eat healthily. Due to some bad decisions I had some bite-lip prolonged periods of not-enough-money some decades ago and it took a lot of time and effort to crawl out of it. I really was not expecting to be plunged back into it by a Labour government that has catastrophically forgotten how to govern, and I won't have the resilience of my earlier years at 68.

There should be some state pension support at 68, more than 25%. I am not convinced it should still be 100% however. There should of course also be support for people who need it under pension age too.

Will be suggesting putting pensioners down at 65 on here shortly. Unbelievable hatred of pensioners, are the majority test tube babies and as heartless and greedy as they make out.

My counter-terror friend told me that about 20% of his work, and rising, is now dedicated to this. Something of which I have never heard. It's called The Com

It's a real thing and it is scary as fuck:

https://news.sky.com/story/inside-the-ultraviolent-neo-nazi-abuse-network-behind-the-crimes-of-a-sussex-teenager-13290041

Another 10% is pure Neo Nazis, the grave majority is Islamism, still, and it hasn't got better, it's likely getting worse

What are impure Nazis?
Ones who occasionally do sick stuff just for a laugh rather than out of rancid hatred for everyone not like themselves?

Basically, yes

That Sky story tallies entirely with what my friend told me about “the com”. And I’d never heard of it or them until tonight

Some of the stuff he told me was truly mind scrambling. And also ominous

The government is close to losing control on seversl fronts. Put it that way

I am still of the opinion that is there was something really big against Trump it would have been used by now. The media have had 12 years to use it. Instead it will be drip drip of rather embarrassing here is Trump at an event and so is Epstein. But of course we know so was all the rich and famous.

I don't follow this stuff closely, but it's weird how it's flipped. Epstein has been a cause célèbre for nutters on the right who think there's been a big cover up.

I don’t think you need to be a butter of any description to think that there has been a coverup.

Epstein was a pimp. Due to the especially gross nature of his operation, his clients are all criminals as well. Of an especially egregious kind. None have even been arrested.

The phrase “too big to fail” comes to mind.

The argument that "if there was something there it would already have come out" is pretty ridiculous in the light of what we know of Epstein's activities.

And the idea that any kind of full investigation or disclosure is likely under the most corrupt administration in living memory, even more so.

I'm fairly confident in predicting that most of those involved will be dead, the majority of them of natural causes, before more than a handful of Epstein's clients/associates are revealed.

It’s worth remembering that Epstein was arrested and got his first conviction and was arrested again, under state and federal governments of both parties.

It seems there is no appetite for going after his client list - because his client list was so broad. He (almost certainly deliberately) mixed in the rich, the famous and the politically connected.

Fck me, I'm going to end up a PB Tory if this carries on.

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@MhairiHunter
Kit Malthouse is not the only Tory to have a clear eyed view of Gaza, Ben Wallace also called it like it is back in 2023. People of all political persuasions can see the reality. It is blindingly obvious. The question is why so few have challenged the government narrative.

https://x.com/MhairiHunter/status/1947584047430902106

The other issue some Israeli ministers have been public about their desire to starve Palestinians.

Israel minister condemned for saying starvation of millions in Gaza might be ‘justified and moral’

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/aug/08/israel-finance-minister-bezalel-smotrich-gaza-starve-2m-people-comments

I am sure I will be labelled an antisemite for posting this.

Fck me, I'm going to end up a PB Tory if this carries on.

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@MhairiHunter
Kit Malthouse is not the only Tory to have a clear eyed view of Gaza, Ben Wallace also called it like it is back in 2023. People of all political persuasions can see the reality. It is blindingly obvious. The question is why so few have challenged the government narrative.

https://x.com/MhairiHunter/status/1947584047430902106

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/23/private-eye-cartoon-arrest-ian-hislop-protest

Yet another example of the absurd and sinister shutting down of debate over the Israeli genocide in Gaza stemming from the proscription of Palestine Action, who are not a terrorist organisation under any common sense understanding of that term. This is only going to escalate as there are millions of people who feel exactly as this man does and the police can't arrest all of us.

So the outcome is no charges.
The fact that you don't think Palestine Action should be labelled as a terrorist organisation is irrelevant - it has been labelled as such by the government in power. I have some sympathy for the plod who are usually not that bright. He was holding a placard with 'Palestine Action' all over it.

I seem to recall rather a lot of debate on Gaza on PB in recent days - I do not see any sinister shutting down of debate. If you want to go and protest in support of Palestinians you are free to do so, as so may have.

Banning Palestine Action is foolhardy, but a fairly minor infringement in the grand scheme of things. Particularly if one applies the Conservatives's ( via Kit Malthouse) suggestion that Lammy and Starmer should be facing the war crimes tribunal in the Hague for their, at least tacit, support for the ethnic cleansing of Palestine.