Disincentives for people on UC are a far more serious problem as they're actually working and can change their hours etc. That we tax at 70-100% people who are working 16 hours so they don'… (View Post)

You what? Today we're paying to provide for unfunded final salary pensions that were accrued but never paid for in the past, but are not eligible to get those ourselves. And you have the audacit… (View Post)

Except them "losing out" is the entire bloody point. There's no money left. (View Post)

It wasn't always a Tory bung for the pensioner vote. It was a Brown bung for the pensioner vote, then became a Tory bung for it. Brown was wrong to introduce it, the Tories were wrong not to cut… (View Post)

Oh give over, we were never going to get those benefits anyway. They're completely unaffordable and would inevitably be cut, the idea its going to be available in the future is as fanciful as th… (View Post)