There is no provision for suspending elections in America, not even the Civil War, the bloodiest war in America's history (even more than WWI and WWII combined for them IIRC) led to the suspensi… (View Post)

Theresa May expanded many incapacity benefits to incorporate mental health as well as physical health, opening the floodgates to a lot more claims. During covid many people got used to not going to w… (View Post)

No, it does not. Anyone born by 1964 is already in their sixties. The boomers are retiring in the UK and they're doing so having not paid enough taxes to balance the state's expenditure in … (View Post)

Worse, house price inflation. If it was regular inflation so £700k in today's money was £14k in 1968 money then it'd be no bad thing. £14k in 1968 should be only £216k in 2025: https://www.… (View Post)

I'm entirely comfortable with anyone today claiming pensions for being 150 years old being killed off officially. (View Post)