Boomer vs Zoomer: Exposing Britain's Age Divide

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@glassmuxxic Ай бұрын

Average Tory member and voter is closer to the grave than to childbearing or the job market. Reaping what you sowed for a decade and a half, entirely deserved.

@advocate1563 Ай бұрын

1. Immigration has to be tackled. Immigration accounts for 33% of housing availability problems and increases house prices by 1-2% per annum (average annual growth 3.4%) - source: Reading University, 2018. Moreover, low skilled immigrants are net cost to the country. Assuming arrival at age of 25 they cost £151k if they stay until age 65 ad they cost £482k if they stay until 80. The salary they have to be on to be a net contributor is £48k per annum. That's highly skilled being well above the UK median salary. 2. I don't think many people had a problem with means testing Winter Fuel Allowance in principle. The problem was Reeves went for "cheap as chips, easy to administer" means testing with the pension credit as the demarcation point. This left people on £12/13k (just the wrong side and with income 1/3rd of the UK average) without WFA. Her sloppy thinking and the political implications was the problem. She's now scuppered her political freedom of action - couldn't happen to a more naive individual if you ask me (to announce WFA within 2 weeks of Ofgen announcing +£149 without checking - duh!). 3. It's not just the young who are leaving. We left in our 50s for a number of reasons - a) regulatory burden - our biz efforts were being strangled spending weekends on paperwork rather than building the topline b) biz tax - 19% - 25% CT in a oner?!!! c) incoming Labour govt - we could see Sunak wouldn't be able to win and we needed to get out. We were particularly concerned about Miliband's unilateral NZ religion which will create blackouts and turn a "gentle decline" into German-style de-industrialisation at a time when the geopolitics demands more critical manufacture at home. The lack of a strategy across govt also a concern; everything announced was clearly anti-growth with a "we're all about growth" central message. You had to be stupid not to work that out. So we're not elsewhere in the world with low tax, pretty much zero crime, land and food security, and plenty of resources to keep the lights on. Some interesting contributions in this debate - ex-Sky commercial director particularly impressive. He gets it.

@Phil-n7c Ай бұрын

The IEA are open borders and always have been. They know very well the costs it imposes, indeed you have to suspect they hope to use it to bankrupt what's left of social provision.