
Same can be said of those drawing private pensions. The correct answer is....because the boomer generation didn't pay in what they are now taking out.
Because the government does take your money, but then they pee it up against the wall instead of investing it for your future.
Therefore you have paid 50 years' National Insurance, however much that adds up to. And how much would that be worth now if it had been properly invested?I started work when I was 15 and retired when 65 so paid in for 50 years

I assume you are reffing to DB pensions not DC pensions?Same can be said of those drawing private pensions. The correct answer is....
The problem of course is that there are plenty who paid squat in and now think they should be entitled.Therefore you have paid 50 years' National Insurance, however much that adds up to. And how much would that be worth now if it had been properly invested?
Same can be said of those drawing private pensions
Same can be said of those drawing private pensions
That was your reference to planned fuel protests...Remember where you heard it first - me
Yes I was talking about the planned protests TWO WEEKS ago - that were going to happen TWO WEEKS agoThat was your reference to planned fuel protests...
"Reform UK’s “fair fuel” protest failed to draw support on Monday, with the planned march down Whitehall called off amid a small turnout"
Billed as a “national fuel protest”, the protest was shared on senior Reform UK members’ social media, including the party’s treasury spokesperson, Robert Jenrick.
The AI-generated poster advertising the event on social media featured an array of tractors, lorries and vans positioned in front of parliament.
"But as Reform UK’s double-decker bus and taxi turned on to Whitehall – 40 minutes after the advertised start time of 9am – no other vehicles had materialised"
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Yes, we heard it from you first![]()
PMSL...Yes I was talking about the planned protests TWO WEEKS ago - that were going to happen TWO WEEKS ago
Nothing to do with whatever happened today.
You are quite tiresome aren’t you getting yourself all excited.
Its been noted before by others that you are so desperate to "win" an argument that you are willing to grasp at any straws and ending your post with aPMSL...
None of them happened...
But you carry on digging that latest hole of yours![]()
Noted by others?Its been noted before by others that you are so desperate to "win" an argument that you are willing to grasp at any straws and ending your post with adoesn’t mean that you have "won" anything.
How are BP "profiteering" the price of fuel is not in their control- you wanna talk about fuel profiteering look no further than the government who are probably making more ££ than anyone out of this in fuel duty/ taxBack on topic, and talking of profiteering...
"BP's profits for the first three months of the year have more than doubled following a surge in oil prices since the beginning of the Iran war"
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And the worse profiteering of all is conducted by OPEC - looks like trumps war has had a positive result of
The United Arab Emirates quitting Opec
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United Arab Emirates to quit oil cartel Opec
The UAE says it is leaving the Opec and Opec+ groups of major oil producing nations.www.bbc.co.uk