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- Fri Sep 13, 2024 2:42 pm
#75986
Also, here’s a different take on it. Some pensioners - very specifically, not the ones who really need it and who will still get it - will now be a bit less well off (though for many, only if they don’t get off their arses and claim the other benefit they’re entitled to that will more than bridge the gap), and some in that group are unhappy about no longer having a benefit they don’t need spoon fed to them. Well you know what? Fuck them. Absolutely fuck them, and let them suck it up for once. Pensioners - as a group that broadly vote right wing - have as such been pandered to for 14 years by the Tories with triple-locked inflation-shattering state pension rises and one off perks and payments. While working-age folk have been stuck in a gig economy and an increasingly draconian universal credit benefit system, and young people have sacrificed their most formative school and college years to keep them safe in Covid while seeing scheme after scheme and benefit after benefit taken away to keep funnelling money to a group of people who have already had it better than any generation before and will likely have had it better than many generations to come.
As a generation they fucked the environment, they fucked the social fabric of the country by overwhelmingly as a group voting Tory and voting Brexit, they’ve fucked over the housing market by buying second homes and renting them to pump prices while engaged in NIMBYism to prevent any new social housing, and they’ve fucked their own children and grandchildren over because of their own prejudices and often outright bigotry. So to see so many so-called socialists suddenly wringing their hands about a minority of a minority of people who are upset about being financially secure enough to no longer get a one-off £200 a year bung anymore is total and utter hypocritical bullshit. It’s openly because they see it as a chance to paint Starmer as a Tory, while in the next breath they’ll gleefully call the same people they’re suddenly so very, very concerned about ‘scum’ when they find out about what many of that group think on immigrants, on women, on homosexuality, on equality and so on. They don’t care about the people who really need it - they don’t have to, because they’re still getting it. And they don’t care about the people who don’t need it, because they’d happily wealth tax them far, far harder given the opportunity. They care about performative socialism.
Edit: and obviously, the Tories and Farage could not give 2 shits about anyone: they’re just gleefully joining in fully aware they’d do - and planned to do - the exact same fucking thing. Only in their case the cash saved would go toward’s someone’s new yacht.
As a generation they fucked the environment, they fucked the social fabric of the country by overwhelmingly as a group voting Tory and voting Brexit, they’ve fucked over the housing market by buying second homes and renting them to pump prices while engaged in NIMBYism to prevent any new social housing, and they’ve fucked their own children and grandchildren over because of their own prejudices and often outright bigotry. So to see so many so-called socialists suddenly wringing their hands about a minority of a minority of people who are upset about being financially secure enough to no longer get a one-off £200 a year bung anymore is total and utter hypocritical bullshit. It’s openly because they see it as a chance to paint Starmer as a Tory, while in the next breath they’ll gleefully call the same people they’re suddenly so very, very concerned about ‘scum’ when they find out about what many of that group think on immigrants, on women, on homosexuality, on equality and so on. They don’t care about the people who really need it - they don’t have to, because they’re still getting it. And they don’t care about the people who don’t need it, because they’d happily wealth tax them far, far harder given the opportunity. They care about performative socialism.
Edit: and obviously, the Tories and Farage could not give 2 shits about anyone: they’re just gleefully joining in fully aware they’d do - and planned to do - the exact same fucking thing. Only in their case the cash saved would go toward’s someone’s new yacht.
