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UK PENSIONERS. A BURDEN ON THE STATE.

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ivanhoe · 25/08/2011 12:06

It is clear that many of you on this site believe that the UK's elderly people are a burden on the State.

So, what you anti- elderly people are doing is descriminating against basically the old in our society, and our country.

You are saying that our elderly people are unaffordable.

That they must endure a low State pension and means tested handouts.

And while you are descrimating against our elderly people, you are full of yourselves to the point of banality.

I read somewhere recently on the internet, that the people living in the 30's and 40's were more mature and sophisticated than the people living today.

This I can believe.

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Pan · 25/08/2011 16:50

ucl and SCR - very goood!

ChickensHaveNoEyebrows · 25/08/2011 16:48

Uncle Cliff? Is that you?

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ivanhoe · 25/08/2011 16:43

2shoes, No, I just want to tell people what I know.

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Pan · 25/08/2011 15:08

ivanhoe - in practicing as a rhetoritician, it's bad form
( and silly) to slag off the people whose minds you are wishing to influence.

If that is what you are wishing to do. IF not, then a blog is prob. the best way forward.
hth

niceguy2 · 25/08/2011 14:58
bobthebuddha · 25/08/2011 14:30

um, so why carry on in this odd manner on here?

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ivanhoe · 25/08/2011 14:27

////You have a noble cause re pensioners Ivanhoe but if you carry on like this in real life you don't have a cat in hell's chance of getting elected to anything - //////you do realise that, don't you?///// Unwarranted rudeness combined with an inability to debate aren't generally noted for getting people into positions of political influence. Though I suspect this isn't being read & a new thread is being prepared//////

Yes I realise that.

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ivanhoe · 25/08/2011 14:26

Soylant Green, brilliant film, says it all.

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bobthebuddha · 25/08/2011 14:21

You have a noble cause re pensioners Ivanhoe but if you carry on like this in real life you don't have a cat in hell's chance of getting elected to anything - you do realise that, don't you? Unwarranted rudeness combined with an inability to debate aren't generally noted for getting people into positions of political influence. Though I suspect this isn't being read & a new thread is being prepared..

TheCrackFox · 25/08/2011 14:07

Yes, lets not give him any ideas. He is very keen on green issues.

aliceliddell · 25/08/2011 14:04

Anyone seen 'Soylent Green'? Great movie. Don't tell Cameron, though.

Portofino · 25/08/2011 14:03

One thought - "soylent green" Wink

TheCrackFox · 25/08/2011 14:02

Why don't we put taxes up, raise the retirement age to 68 (wouldn't surprise me if it was raised to 70 for my age group), triple the cost of a degree and slash and burn benefits for those of a working age? Oh, sorry, we have already done that.

niceguy2 · 25/08/2011 13:56

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chibi · 25/08/2011 13:41

we should totes eat the elderly, and use any non-ingestible bits as a source of fuel for the cold winters

NevermindtheNargles · 25/08/2011 13:39

I can't work out why you keep posting on a discussion forum. You aren't interested in discussing anything.

Why not start a blog?

ShirleyKnot · 25/08/2011 13:38

I just wish ivanhoe would just bugger off and bore some other poor bastards into submission. Like his MP.

Yes, go and tell your MP all this, there is actually fuck all we on mumsnet can do for you.

Solo · 25/08/2011 13:31

Very good point TCF

TheCrackFox · 25/08/2011 13:27

Old people voted for Thatcher - anyone under the age of 40 wasn't actually old enough to vote her in. Perhaps you should be haranguing the baby boomers and current pensioners about the state of pension because it sure ain't my genrations fault.

Solo · 25/08/2011 13:24

Poor state pensioners did not start being poor with Thatcher.

EvenLessNarkyPuffin · 25/08/2011 13:15
EvenLessNarkyPuffin · 25/08/2011 13:13

'You are saying that our elderly people are unaffordable.'

Did I really? When was that? I think most people would support the abolition of means testing and a vast increase in pensions.

I think the government is saying that it's unaffordable.

Maybe you should go and shout at them.

LtEveDallas · 25/08/2011 13:11

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bemybebe · 25/08/2011 13:10

"Britain has without a doubt, lost it's soul, it's Christianity, it's sense of fair play."

Christianity??? So we have a communist and an evangelical christian rolled into one... wow!

lachesis · 25/08/2011 13:08

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