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Reply | Stay safe out there
at 11:17 10 Sep 2024
Technically it is but no otehr benefit has this caveat:-
"so long as they have made the requisite National Insurance contributions or credits."
Now somebody earning more will pay more, it's morally wrong for someone who's made those payments to subsidise somebody who hasn't whilst they have still been required to save to fund they're own retirement.
Changes are inevitable - perhaps one of those should be to reduce the state pension of somoeone who has made credits rather than contributions? |
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Reply | Stay safe out there
at 10:45 10 Sep 2024
As I've said I don't think the state pension is a benefit. The equalisation behind the difference between mens and womens pension age was correct - but it's implementation should not have been speeded up.
We need a full review of benefits, do we need JSA? Should the benefits savings limit be reviewed? Free presecriptions? Free School meals?
The bottom line in my opininon is that when considering all benefits, received directly and indirectly, you should always be better off in work. We're a long way from that. |
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Reply | Stay safe out there
at 09:22 10 Sep 2024
I don't think the state benefit is a "benefit" it's earned and contributed too, throughout working life. No other benefit is. It's an entitlement.
The chances are somebody earning £100k a year in retirement has paid in considerably more to the state pension pot via taxes than they'll ever get out of it. I probably will to.
I'm officially 20 year away from getting it and stacking my work pension and making an AVC to top up my state pension to something like what would have been a final salary pension until it was replace by a career average pension. I'd like to maintain my standard of living and retire in about 15 years if possible - that'll be off my own back and somebody younger can fill my current job.
Means testing the state benefit would mean people don't bother contributing to they're private pension once they reached the means tested threshold. There'd be no point. Then we'd probably see a run on the banks and a stock market crash.
I do think the triple lock has to go though.
We need a massive overhaul of the benefits system there is no doubt about that though. |
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Reply | Rwanda
at 18:45 6 Sep 2024
Agree with every word.
It was only ever intended to be a headline grabber and could not have worked.
If the Germans make it work good on them. It's not hard to improve on anything the last government did. |
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Reply | The new system for electing Senedd members
at 18:41 6 Sep 2024
Or change the rules about the numbers needed to sit on a committee or make the commitees bigger but responsible for more things.
A very feeble excuse. |
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Reply | More stabbings
at 11:02 6 Sep 2024
Yes it should, but the home office including the border force saw huge cuts over the course of the last government. There's nobody to find them and do anything with them.
Stop the boats and Rwanda were nothing more than headlines, a case of LOOK AT THIS but please don't look at this. |
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Reply | More stabbings
at 07:06 6 Sep 2024
Or enables them to stay more to the point.
They come because they can work in these places and stay because they don't get caught.
The new government have announced a crack down on these places. Let's see what happens.
And do you know any car wash that takes cards? |
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Reply | More stabbings
at 21:25 5 Sep 2024
You may joke but I was in Spain recently and didn't see a single deliveroo/just eat/Uber eats rider, there wasn't a car wash on every corner and I didn't see any Turkish (Iraqi Kurdish) barbers.
Makes you wonder why they are so many here? |
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Reply | More stabbings
at 16:52 5 Sep 2024
It's the reason most want to come here. It's easier to work illegally in the UK than most other countries. |
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Reply | More stabbings
at 15:48 5 Sep 2024
We have two other options. We stop them getting here or leave them on the streets. We can't deport them until their claim is heard.
I'm not a "refugees welcome" bloke but we need to do something with them. Perhaps letting them work is an option?
And illegals get nothing. |
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Reply | More stabbings
at 15:06 5 Sep 2024
People who don't have a legal right to be here can't claim benefits. At all. Asylum seekers do get some financial help but don't get welfare benefits. It is nowhere near £29,900 a year.
You can speak out in public. You just can't be racist. |
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Reply | More stabbings
at 13:53 5 Sep 2024
Sounds like we need to do something about the trafficking gangs to me? |
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Reply | More stabbings
at 11:27 5 Sep 2024
What if when they were apprehended in the channel they said they were the Afghani Sea Angling Club from Folkestone? So claimed they had left from the UK so had to be brought back here.
I'm not being facetious but once they're on the water and away from France there isn't a great deal we can do.
That kind of surveilance would have to be done within a mile of France. It could be done but it would be up to France to do it because I really don't think they'd let us . |
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Reply | More stabbings
at 11:12 5 Sep 2024
I've no real issue with the use of a third country processing centre? How about France?
We should have no dangerous immigrants (or anyone else) freely patrolling our streets, but first we have to know if they're dangerous or not. Simple checks were not made in this case, I'd guess down to there not being enough people to do them. |
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Reply | More stabbings
at 11:07 5 Sep 2024
But where do force them back too? They've left those countries they are no longer their responsibility, unless we track each vessel we don't know if they've come from France, Belgium, The Netherlands or anywhere else.
Besides those coming on illegal small boats are the very tip of the immigration iceberg. |
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Reply | More stabbings
at 10:35 5 Sep 2024
But the point is he was not assessed. If he was assessed all sorts of red flags would have been raised and he could have been dealt with appropriately.
He didn't get in to the country without the authorities knowing, he was discovered and finger printed but nothing further happened.
He wasn't properly assessed almost certainly due to austerity and associated cuts.
It should be realtively straight forward to deal with illegal immigrants. Try to stop them coming (nothing has been done, yet), stop them working illegally (nothing has been done, yet), process them (timeline for processing has got far worse) then get rid of them or allow them to work legally.
The home office should have been given funds to do this not have resources stripped from towards a hair brained deportation scheme.
Threatening to send them to Africa was never going to work for loads of reasons but it got some headlines. |
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Reply | More stabbings
at 09:49 5 Sep 2024
They're coming here because they can hide in the grey Labour market or they have people who currently work in the grey labour market who will look after them. |
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Reply | More stabbings
at 07:12 5 Sep 2024
It's shocking.
He should have been correctly processed and deported.
Unfortunately over the previous 4 years the number of those those waiting for their claims to be processed increased by a factor of 5. The system could have done with a massive cash injection and increased levels of staff.
A month after this poor lads murder the Rwanda scheme was launched. Costing 100's of millions of pounds and employing 1000 staff.
Stop the boats! Does that include ferries to Poole? |
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Reply | The new system for electing Senedd members
at 20:37 4 Sep 2024
That's right. The party choses the candidates in order of preference, I don't know if that'll be made public. You're voting for the party and not the person.
It's definitely a problem, there's a good number of assembly members who I wouldn't vote for in a month of Sundays, but probably would vote for their party. It's not an ideal system at all.
Ultimately it'll mean smaller parties get some seats, and reform will do well.
It'll be more of the same though, a Labour/PC/Green coalition or something like that. |
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Reply | The new system for electing Senedd members
at 10:18 4 Sep 2024
They'd in effect be their own party. The ballot paper would show something like:-
Labour
Reform
Plaid
Conservative
Liberal
Whiterockin - independent
As I understand nobody is going to stop anyone from standing - but the political parties decide who gets elected depending on the number of votes that party gets. |
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