Pendleside Dingbats C/D 6 January 2025
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Mick ‘Grinch’ Holding The Country To Ransom Has Called More Dates To Strike
I feel for all those people who want to be with their family’s this Christmas, they’ve now included Christmas Eve in their disruption, my opinion is he’s trying every thing he can to bring down the Government, shades of Arthur Scargill, 8% over two years is no good to him, why can’t he see there is no money in the pot to meet his extravagant demands
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In the seventies the British car industry was in a hell of a state. It was, thought many people going to crash out - and it did. It was steered to the precipice by a communist convener called Derek Robinson, or red Robbo as he was well known. Many believe he single handedly killed the British motor industry allowing BMW, Mercedes etc plus all the Japanese...
11:55 Tue 06th Dec 2022
Ellipsis - //
> The two are not comparable.
They are, which is why I did!
Both relate to people's incomes today. Some people get their incomes raised in line with inflation, others don't. The train drivers want to be with the haves, not the have-nots. //
They do relate to people's incomes, but one income is derived from employment, and one is derived from the government. Hence the differences I pointed out in my post.
And as pensioners, there is no point in us 'going on strike' - we have no labour to withdraw!
> The two are not comparable.
They are, which is why I did!
Both relate to people's incomes today. Some people get their incomes raised in line with inflation, others don't. The train drivers want to be with the haves, not the have-nots. //
They do relate to people's incomes, but one income is derived from employment, and one is derived from the government. Hence the differences I pointed out in my post.
And as pensioners, there is no point in us 'going on strike' - we have no labour to withdraw!
> And as pensioners, there is no point in us 'going on strike' - we have no labour to withdraw!
No, just a vote ... which is why the triple lock is not being scrapped. It's a bribe.
By the way, the triple lock was only introduced in 2010. All of those years you were paying into your pension, when your predecessors were drawing theirs, there was no triple lock. So you are not entitled to an inflation linked rise, any more than anyone else paid by the government - like, say, the nurses - is entitled to one.
No, just a vote ... which is why the triple lock is not being scrapped. It's a bribe.
By the way, the triple lock was only introduced in 2010. All of those years you were paying into your pension, when your predecessors were drawing theirs, there was no triple lock. So you are not entitled to an inflation linked rise, any more than anyone else paid by the government - like, say, the nurses - is entitled to one.
Ellipsis is correct.
// Between April 2010 and April 2016 the value of the state pension has been increased by 22.2%, compared to growth in earnings of 7.6% and growth in prices of 12.3% over the same period. That means pensioners have seen their incomes rise at almost double the pace of the average worker. //
- The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) 2017.
These election bribes are difficult to shake off.
// Between April 2010 and April 2016 the value of the state pension has been increased by 22.2%, compared to growth in earnings of 7.6% and growth in prices of 12.3% over the same period. That means pensioners have seen their incomes rise at almost double the pace of the average worker. //
- The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) 2017.
These election bribes are difficult to shake off.
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