Centinaia di migliaia di inglesi anziani incapaci di permettersi elementi essenziali di base come costo della vita

I’m not listening to any bleating about ‘cost of living’ or inflation from anyone who wanted endless lockdown, furlough schemes and all rest of the idiotic shite that was done and vast billions of pounds printed up for.

Well maybe they should have been better with their money and cut down on those netflix subscriptions and avocado toast

This problem will only get worse as cost of living means working age people won’t be able to save for retirement so will be more dependent on the state pension, and a falling birth rate means an ever increasing number of pensions relying on an ever decreasing number of workers paying tax

We must grow the economy and we must either massively increase birth rates or increase skilled migration to avoid this doom spiral

Unfortunately increasing migration will lead to cultural erosion and is deeply unpopular with the conservative right

Increasing birth rates will lead to a resurgence of traditional nuclear families, gender roles, and inevitable increase in gender wage gap, which is unacceptable to the liberal left

I don’t really see a way out beyond a technological miracle of automation and robotics, but that will have its own profound struggles around work and inequality

What the actual f*ck is with the comments.

Look up how many old people are dying each year from the cold.

The answer isn’t to blame them just cuz the majority of their age group vote stupid.

It’s to wake people up, show them how this system is rotten and show them a better way is possible.

Organise, fight back!

Join the IWA https://www.iwa-ait.org/content/addresses

Labour, reform, conservative and greens have all shown they cannot fix this system, best they can do is give us a few benefits that will be taken away a few years from now.

The Zapatistas, CNT in Catalonia and Rojava have shown us a better way is possible!

But weren’t we told in summer all pensioners are rich on super pension schemes

Ah we’ve gone from “it’s too hot and all the grannies are dying” season to “it’s too cold and all the grannies are dying” season.

The government needs to introduce an incentive or scheme for the elderly to downsize. No tax or a pension increase if selling property over 65 for single home owners or something.

Mass sale of family homes for families to actually buy will lower house prices and rents (which could be offset by a government incentive) which frees up spending money, which stimulates the economy and takes pressure of wages – as well as deter foreign “investment” in buying our housing stock.

This would solve so many problems in the UK AND align with the government/treasury’s own growth goals without compromising the stupid relentless alignment with the failed Neoliberalism experiment.

While I have sympathy for anyone struggling, as someone under 40, it’s a feeling of “Welcome to the club” rather than anything pro-active. It’s not like wages had a lock protection or our the government has invested in our assets in the same they’ve thrown billions at home upgrades in the last 15 years through solar panels, heat pumps etc, while children have been wilfully thrown into active poverty with only footballers to protect their basic needs.

If property rich people downsized as much as possible, they’d have enough money to keep warm and do hobbies and stuff. But what if they are already as far downsized as possible? then they need help.
Also don’t forget, some of these elderly people will be leaving their wealth to younger people, so don’t wish their money away or you won’t get so much.

Try as you might, I simply can’t muster any sympathy for the generation that benefited from an economy running on easy mode

The inequality (cost of living) crisis is really what the government should be focusing on but they keep wasting money and effort on small boats!

State pension is £1k a month and assuming you get pension credit you also get winter fuel, warm home discount, free travel, free TV licence, council tax discount, and discounted dental and glasses costs. You also pay no mortgage.

The image is that old people are sat in some bleak shack on top of a hill while the wind howls around them, nothing but an agar for warmth and their only blanket is ancient and has holes. The flickering lightbulb they use to do the crossword cuts out so they rummage in their purse through a few coins, eventually finding enough to slot into the meter after which the light bulb coughs its way back on. “Four down, in need of help, 2 letters….hmmm… *ME*” they say to themselves, while their dog yelps. Outside the wind howls on. But if they listen carefully, putting their overgrown head on the back of the moth-shared armchair they also use as a bed, in the distance they can hear the soft growl of the millennials in their Lamborghinis. Maybe one of them will stop by.