The most selfish generation? – politicalbetting.com
The most selfish generation? – politicalbetting.com
Should the responsibility for alleviating pensioner poverty rest more with working people in younger generations or with richer pensioners?All Britons: 34% richer pensioners / 29% younger workers18-24: 54% / 10%25-49: 38% / 22%50-64: 27% / 35%65+: 24% / 42%yougov.co.uk/society/arti…
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What they are showing off is that the robot is now containing a lot more sensors and the hands have better dystextia that can be potentially leveraged to learn to do tasks.
The same can not be said about working people.
Working people's wages should go to themselves first, before it goes to anyone else.
Working people should not be worse off than those who are not working.
Squabbling over a declining amount of national wealth is a recipe for dystopia, and any party which overly focuses on who pays what, at the expense of growth, will not get my vote.
(Which is not to say that I would oppose necessary tax increases.)
But, seriously, a most alarming report. I was very surprised anyone would want to land at Edinburgh (though the wind was possibly more or less along the runway, IIRC).
It's the sort of polling that makes Anarchism appealing. If the State exists only to force you to fix someone else's problems, because they're unwilling to do so themselves, then the State needs smashing.
And the triple lock is absurd so why can't the parties come to an agreement to scrap it ?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4odAXoqRT8
I’ve always worked on the assumption that I’ll never get a state pension.
https://www.pprune.org/rumours-news/668558-air-india-ramair-deployment.html?highlight=air+india
However, if the triple lock remains for another dozen years, the bill will be utterly unaffordable.
Why don't you read how Bibi harnessed Hamas for his own agenda?
You spout absolute nonsense denying reality and then you claim everyone else looks ridiculous.
Hamas should be disarmed and hopefully with this surrender now they will be.
One of a set of related lies seeded by (probably) Russian trolls.
Wealthy boomer pensioners vote themselves the triple lock which will bankrupt the pension system before today's workers can claim.
First, our baby boom generation is in its 60s, not 70s (from which I infer foreign trolls started this). Second, there is a lot of pensioner poverty. Third, it will be decades before the triple lock seriously impacts affordability of what compared with our peer nations is not a generous pension. Demographics are more of a problem as the baby boom generation (remember them) nears retirement age.
The other curious thing is the well-paid pundits never point to their own perks, like higher rate tax relief on private pension contributions, or salary sacrifice, or free childcare for couples on £200,000 (well, technically just under £100k each). Again this points in my tin foil mind to troll-sown discord rather than serious analysis.
What's not acceptable is them remaining in Gaza or armed.
(Though that would be phased in up to 2060.)
And yes, the triple lock nonsense needs to be scrapped.
A wakeup call for the west to sort out its manufacturing industries.
CHINA JUST WEAPONIZED THE ENTIRE RARE EARTH SUPPLY CHAIN
get used to reading chinese MOFCOM bulletins because they're writing american industrial policy now.
announced today: any product containing >0.1% chinese rare earth materials needs beijing's approval before re-export to third countries.
doesn't matter if you manufactured it in taiwan, vietnam, or texas.
chinese dysprosium in your magnet? chinese gallium in your chip? beijing gets veto power over the sale.
this is the nuclear option. US spent 3 years trying to deny china access to advanced chipmaking tools. china just responded with chokehold on literally every semiconductor fab, AI data center, defense contractor, and EV manufacturer on earth.
everything runs on chinese rare earths. building alternative supply chains takes 5-10 years minimum.
we don't have 5-10 years. effective december 1st.
the AI boom just hit a hard ceiling and we're still pretending we can offshore our way to prosperity.
time to reindustrialize like our lives depend on it. because they do.
https://x.com/aphysicist/status/1976272490172231701
As with the US chip restrictions, enforcement will be somewhat leaky, but they've shown the ability to interrupt supplies of rare earths for extended period of time, so it can;t be brushed aside.
And duplicating anything like their refining and processing capacity will be a project that takes quite a number of years.
This is a critical supply chain for just about everything important, so we need to get on with it.
In one respect, this is just a hardball negotiating tactic, but at the same time, it is a deadly serious threat to western manufacturing and defence industries.
This means there is probably serious value for anyone with a clue about the other contenders, which rules me out.
“‘We don’t want to be a toy town’: has Brexit sunk this historic UK fishing fleet?”
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/09/hastings-brexit-sunk-historic-uk-fishing-fleet
If you read the text, what they mean by “Brexit” is actually Keir Starmer’s pathetic, treacherous fishing deal when he gave everything to the French for 12 years, in return for… nothing
The Kissinger precedent renders it perfectly possible, while no less absurd.
For a variety of reasons (not least the NHS and personal understanding of health initiatives) we live in an ageing society. When Lloyd George introduced the Old Age Penion in 1909, it was payable to people aged over 75. Over the years we reduced it to 60 for some people, and have now raised it to 66 for everyone, but the expectation was that it would be paid to a few people, in exceptional circumstances, not to a fifth of the population.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c066r811z7ro
Perhaps, just perhaps, we need to understand that fishermen, like farmers, always complain.
Therefore most of their complaints should be ignored...
When one flexes ones muscles like this, one creates massive incentives for mining companies to invest in new production. And then -suddenly- China won't be the only supplier. And you have also made yourself an unreliable partner, which impacts everything going forward.
Sid Siddiqui, 80, has continued to take part in the fly-on-the-wall series while absent from his taxpayer-funded role as a health service environmental manager, which, it is understood, he worked at three days a week.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15176721/Gogglebox-star-80-hit-Channel-4-signed-stress-62k-year-NHS-job.html
Now this is a very weird story not for the headline reason. First all the promo online says he was retired, which you would expect from somebody who is 80 YEARS OLD. Something doesn't add up here.
Mr Farage on Reform's education policy (presumably).
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cx2nzlj2j4kt?post=asset:0144dfaa-5350-4d16-9826-6474ab041076#post
Im looking at whether to take some, all or none at the moment.
China processes over 90% of rare earth production, which is a lot more than their share of world mining.
It will take years to duplicate that capability - and it's not just having the facilities; their processing technology is far in advance of elsewhere, as they've had a virtual monopoly on the market for a decade.
You can make exactly the same remarks about US chip restrictions. Over time, it's quite likely China will duplicate western technology there (and their government is spending tens of billions to encourage that), but in the meantime, they're very effective.
The sense of entitlement is unbelievable.
I've just realised that Mark Blundell, ex-F1 and Cart driver, and Le-Mans winner, and one of my childhood heroes, lives just off the road where I take my son every week to go swimming. I've even run right past his place.
No, I'm not going to turn into a stalker.
https://x.com/DCHStrust/status/990168889567965184
So at 73 he was definitely still employed with them but on the sick. He started on the show 12 years ago.
Neither was Israel; but the hostages were a blooming good excuse for Netanyahu to continue his war...
Once the hostages are released, Netanyahu will find much 'support' for his war disappearing.
So, yes, China has inserted another bit of sand into an already slow world economy (that has been hammered by Ukraine and Trump's tariffs).
And it will negatively impact China most of all. But we all lose. Just like with the tariffs.
The problem with the generation born between about 1945 and 1965 is not particularly that they are more fallen than the rest of us, it's that they are more numerous. So indulging them has been a viable business and political strategy throughout their lives.
With consequences that can only be described as "Boomers, if you seek your memorial, look around." It sounds better in Latin, I'm sure, but I did go to a comprehensive.
I accept that accounting for all this is difficult.
Could be the trigger for Trump to really and finally lose the plot and throw god knows what at the protesters.
https://www.nokings.org/
I don't have kids, but I don't get that the "reds under the beds" scare is something that is part of the UK political discussion around education. Rather behaviour, slipping standards, kids effected by COVID lockdown still not ready to learn are the things that my friends who do have kids bang on about.
I just cannot wrap my ahead around it, my parents think their main role in life is to spend money on their grandkids, and also leave me and them a massive inheritance.
"noamericankings.org"
- For Wren, it was "Lector si monumentum requiris, circumspice", referring to St Paul's Cathedral
- For the Boomers it's a failed empire and an economy based on inporting hundreds of thousands of people per year whilst giving billions to foreigners in profits/rent.
We really shat the bed on this...Have these people actually met any real children?
If teachers could indoctrinate kids, there are many things higher up my list than lefty wokeism.
Starting with bringing a calculator to physics lessons.
An embargo on rare earth shipments would be more than a bit of sand in the world economic machine.
In what way might you or others feel unequal to me? Here I am with my great estates and there you are with your tin of baked beans monument. But we all breathe the same air, and there's no charge*.
I have family in farming, and it's a bit of a running joke.
I picked up my elder daughter from primary school about 150 days a year for five years
Not uncommon, in some jobs, as a soft retirement - they stay on as contractor to keep knowledge etc going, while tapering off working.
She had only one child.
My mother in law has a slightly exasperating tendency to talk to us about what we'll do when we retire, blithely expecting that we'll be able to have the same two-cruises-a-year lifestyle she has. At present my plan A is work until my 70s then off to Dignitas.
Aaron Rupar
@atrupar
Kristi Noem: "With your authority, we're purchasing more buildings in Chicago to operate out of. We're gonna not back off -- in fact, we're doubling down. We're gonna be in more parts of Chicago in response to the people there. I was there a few days ago and looked at some facilities we can deploy more law enforcement out of."
https://x.com/atrupar/status/1976326139376177428
"With your authority" i.e. if you give the nod we can ignore the law and the constitution.
I was walking today in Regents Park. A lovely day. As I approached the southern side there was a whole gaggle of children, chaperoned by a disarray of teachers. They were obviously something like an Islamic school trip - there were (hat tip to Jenrick) simply no white faces. A fair few headscarfed girls. Anyway, generally good to see children out and about, but I was a trifle disappointed that it seemed quite a monocultural expedition. And then one of the little girls just spontaneously smiled and waved at me.
Despite my sometimes gloom, I think we're in good shape.
Not only did they announce the unprecedented rare earths restrictions that I posted about earlier 👇 (targeted, among others, at the advanced semiconductors sector) but they issued 4 consecutive announcements in total with other export controls on:
- The machines and expertise to process rare earths - not just the rare earths themselves, but all the specialized equipment and technical know-how to turn rare earth into usable materials (obviously making it all the harder to try to move rare earth processing away from China)
- High-performance batteries - specifically those above 300 Wh/kg needed for long-range EVs and advanced drones. And, again, export controls on all the factory equipment to make them too.
- The materials inside batteries - both graphite anodes and cathode materials (the two electrodes that are essential for batteries to function at all). Export controls also cover the specialized equipment to manufacture all of these components.
- Industrial diamonds and cutting tools - the ultra-hard materials that are used ubiquitously in precision manufacturing, for instance to cut silicon wafers for computer chips
This is absolutely unprecedented. With this China effectively gets veto power over three critical supply chains simultaneously: advanced semiconductors (via rare earths and related equipment), battery-powered vehicles and drones, and precision manufacturing across industries (via superhard materials).
https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1976275085158670813
Just as with Biden and Trump's advanced chip export controls this will be leaky, and will incentivise those it's aimed at to develop their own manufacturing/production capacity.
But just as with those controls, it could have broad and very significant effects over the next few years.
The fact that they have not been able to do so to date shows how useless teachers would be at indoctrinating children about anything.
Loads of the MAGA talking points just don't work in the UK.
Besides, if that is true, AIUI your daughter is now at uni, which means those days are at least ten years ago. You've got f-all idea what is being taught at school, but it's zero surprise you're shitting out the MAGA talking points.
Says Google. But which party is going to start the conversation? Perhaps one way forward would be to insist that Care Home fees come out of the resident's capital either directly or as a future (interest bearing) charge. The boomers would have to make a decision about whether passing on wealth before a care home is needed is the best strategy or to hold the wealth and at lease have a choice about care.
Do you trust your children?