Riforma per finanziare le pensioni con triplo blocco con “il più grande taglio della legge sui benefici nella storia”

Pensions are the biggest benefit in history though. 

Nigel Farage has confirmed Reform UK would keep the triple lock for state pensions and will fund it with the “biggest cuts to the benefits bill ever seen in this country”.

The Reform UK leader has previously been sceptical about guaranteeing the triple lock, warning that the current system is “unaffordable on a national level”.

At a press conference in central London, Reform’s Treasury spokesman Robert Jenrick pledged to cut “tens and tens of billions” of pounds of government waste and reset spending to “actually put the British people first”.

“We have already identified £40bn of savings every year”, he added.

The U-turn comes just months after Mr Farage said that his party would not “guarantee anything” to pensioners, saying they would have “to see what the economics of this are like nearer the next election”.

Mr Farage defended the shift, saying: “When I said the jury’s out on the triple lock and what we would decide to do on this… if I could just interpret that into simple English, what I meant was the jury’s out. Not that I’d made my mind up either way.

“And we have discussed it, and we have debated it, and we’ve decided it’s going to stay.”

But he insisted his party could afford the triple lock “many, many times over” because in two weeks it would outline “the most radical proposals to cutting welfare ever seen in this country”.

He defended the spending on pensioners, describing them for the most part as “people who have actually worked and paid into the system”.

But he also suggested that people could have to work for longer before they reach a new, higher state pension age, describing it as a “massive subject” and saying there was “a logic” to the idea “provided people are fit…, even if many people find it rather unpalatable”.

Reform UK will also look to scrap defined benefit pensions for new entrants in the public sector, he announced.

On benefits cuts, Mr Jenrick made clear they would apply to people born in Britain, but he added his party would say more in the next few weeks about that hundreds of thousands of immigrants who came to the UK as part of the so-called ‘Boriswave’,

He claimed that the cost to the UK of the wave, “if they remain in the UK for the rest of their lives, is likely to be of a scale that we have not known in our lifetime, a sum of money as big as Covid or the Second World War, a giant sum of money. And that has to be stopped.”

The triple lock, introduced by David Cameron’s government, means the state pension rises by the rate of inflation, average earnings or 2.5 per cent – whichever is highest.

The system is popular with pensioners, but there have been increasing questions over its economic viability in recent years.

A Conservative source said Reform UK were “all over the place on the triple lock”, adding: “It’s increasingly clear Jenrick is strong-arming Farage into backing unfunded policies with no credible plan to deliver them as Reform’s local election campaign descends into chaos.”

The shift means Reform will commit to keeping the policy if it wins the next general election.

The announcement comes as the party vies to win votes in elections to English councils, the Scottish Parliament and the Welsh Senedd at the start of next month.

Mr Jenrick recently said he had “always been a supporter” of the policy, adding:: ‘We’re going to say more, but it’s incredibly important we provide dignity and security to older people on fixed incomes in the last decades of their life.”

Reform are MAGA wannabes, the only reason to do this is to enrich their rich, racist mates while their poor, stupid, racist supporters suffer along with the rest of us.

As time goes on, I become more convinced in myself that state pension should only be given to people who forfeit their voting rights.

But pensioners are the biggest users of all other benefits!

Several months ago it was “refuses to rule out” getting rid of it

So kill disabled people to fund old people …

Disgusting

Party most popular with pensioners funds pensions , what a surprise.

But he also suggested that people could have to work for longer before they reach a new, higher state pension age, describing it as a “massive subject” and saying there was “a logic” to the idea “provided people are fit…, even if many people find it rather unpalatable”.

I wonder what age he will increase the state pension age to ?

Got to keep the largest bloc of benefit receiving voters on board!

Pensions dwarf other benefits

Sorry starving kids but grandad needs another cruise.

I thought Nigel wanted to get rid of the triple lock. Has he u-turned on this?

Holy shit.

They’re literally just moving money from one area to another.

They’re not going to do anything with the money.

I mean I expected bad. This is atrocious.

Cut benefits > fund benefits for old people

Investment in public services? Potholes.

Investment in NHS? Privitise

Border control? Don’t ask them for their plans!

What a dumbass.

If we didnt have to face the consequences Id love to let them have their way and watch it all go to shit, like Americans are finding with Trump.

We could all be sat cashing in our weekly food tokens before the triple lock gets abandoned…… ive never known of a policy that causes so much financial burden and yet we choose to ignore the damage that its doing for our future generations.

Im a millennial born in the late 80s and I came to the realisation that there wont be a state pension for us a very long time ago. The last group of people to get it will feel like the soldiers on the last chopper out of Saigon, and the rest of us will watch on as we work well into our 70s.

Policies like this are creating a massive cultural rift between generations and those who benefited from the triple lock, free education and dirt cheap housing look down at the younger generations like they didnt try hard enough… but in reality they were just born at the right time.

Those Reform voters on benefits must feel so stupid rn but most likely they won’t get it

>On benefits cuts, Mr Jenrick made clear they would apply to people born in Britain, but he added his party would say more in the next few weeks about that hundreds of thousands of immigrants who came to the UK as part of the so-called ‘Boriswave’

We really need to find out who was immigration minister during the Boriswave and make sure they never get near power again.

Maybe Mr Jenwick could help us identify the culprit?

“Funding benefits by cutting other benefits!”

It’s just a naked bit of pandering. Fuck me, we’re not going to make it as a country, are we? We’ve got ten years tops before the ponzi scheme falls apart.

So working people should be punished to pay for people who are wealthier in retirement than many of them are while working. Yes, I know there are poor pensioners who didn’t vote Brexit but most aren’t and did.