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Burnham needs to win Makerfield. There's hardly any votes to be won there by saying he'd scrap the triple lock, but quite a few could potentially be lost.
I'd treat this pronouncement with a pinch of salt.

In a GE not one tory wanker on here would vote for Burnham if he did scrap the TL. It's a catastrophically bad net electoral negative for everybody but the Greens so they aren't going to promise to do it or actually do it,

This conservative and pensioner most certainly would vote to scrap TL

Indeed I would go further and ensure that the pension itself was not awarded to millionaires

Andy Burnham promises to keep the state pension triple lock if he becomes PM

https://x.com/politlcsuk/status/2066132953785118852?s=46&t=Gsn9rlDEZH5vXP97Cgifnw

Not sure that will survive through to the election.

The Mail on Sunday is girding its loins for the fight to keep it, natch.

Of course it will - massive political cost, very little short-term saving (and that will always be the case). It's the kryptonite of UK fiscal sustainability.

The Polanski factor.

Avergae Age of Newspaper readers;


The Observer: Average age of 47
The Sunday Times: Average age of 49 to 58
The Mail on Sunday: Average age of 60
The Sunday Telegraph: Average age of 61 to 62!

Peter.

All those of you listing films that made you sob have for some incomprehensible reason forgotten to list the end of "Silent Running"

"...There's a little robot. With a watering can. And he's trying to keep the last trees alive. In the whole universe. AND HE'S ALL ON HIS OWN. BWAAAAH-HAH!..."

• Last scene of "Silent Running": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZ0JGjKYVdU
  
• Mark Kermode on "Silent Running": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUsV5LP30rU
  
• Edgar Wright on "Silent Running": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YoJaG-9XZE
  

Grave of the Fireflies.

When I was a kid, we used to laze around in our pyjamas of a Sunday morning, and basically do f*** all, until we had to pay some attention to more serious matters when Brian Walden came on with Weekend World at midday. In later decades we had Andrew Neil and Sunday Politics screening from 11 am, forcing us to attend to the troubles of our country and the world an hour earlier, superseded by Andrew Marr who got us worrying about such things at 10. Nowadays we have to pay attention to Laura wotsit at 9am and we’ve even got our regional politics over and done with by 10.30, whereupon we’re about to get up and out.

And yet people still say Britain has a productivity problem…

Andy Burnham promises to keep the state pension triple lock if he becomes PM

https://x.com/politlcsuk/status/2066132953785118852?s=46&t=Gsn9rlDEZH5vXP97Cgifnw

Question. Is there any major politician committed to removing the state pension triple lock?

From what I'm hearing on this thread, doing so would be absolute political gold dust. I'm amazed all our politicians are failing to appreciate the magic.

Considering that Labour’s unpopularity was triggered by the means testing of the Winter Fuel Allowance any party that tried to cut the triple lock would be absolutely murdered. The problem in the UK is not with our politicians, it is with the public.