I don't think cutting the triple lock is the answer. For a start lots of people have planned their retirement taking this amount into account. What do they do if after paying in for years and now on the cusp of retirement 'the rules' suddenly change. If they are going to do this they need to do it for people who are say 20 today and those that come behind them. That gives them time to prepare for retirement over the next 30 to 40 years.
None of the govts will want to lose the 'grey vote' and pensioners also turn out in force on voting days.
Plus if they cut the state pension then more people would be entitled to pension credit and so they would not actually save anything.
The answer has got to be stuff along the lines of:
Get people back to work. Seriously unless you are in a wheelchair of missing a limb or have downs syndrome you can work (okay I'm making it too simple but you get the point I am making). Maybe some can only work part-time and that's fine but far too many people are on benefits.
Freeze house prices from this day forward. Eventually inflation will make houses cheaper and the huge burden that is the housing market will be minimised. I mean if all house prices froze today for everyone then nobody would lose out would they. I bought my house in 2019 for 200K. Today it is worth £250K. Except it hasn't changed at all. So I sell my house for 250K and I buy another house for 250K, I haven't benefited at all have I. I'd be happy to sell it for 200K if they rolled all the prices back to 2019 but of course they can't do that because of people that have bought since then. So just freeze them. However if they do this our 'wealth' as a country will go down and they have used this 'wealth' to give people a false sense of prosperity. Does this matter. I don't know.
Close the borders now. I know it's drastic but until the country sorts itself out we should just close them just now. I'm sure there is a reason why this is more complicated than that but if your children are starving and you are running out of bread you don't keep giving it away to children of strangers do you. I mean that would be madness yet isn't that what we are doing.
The country needs growth and production and industries. Stop killing this with all the tax changes. Yes it's short term pain for long term gain but if she doesn't then we are never going to get out of this hole (that's if it's even possible now)
Charge a basic fee for the NHS - £10 for a gp appointment and so on. I'm sure most people would think that was ok and they would surely raise alot this way plus I bet lots of missed appointments would stop. Okay I know it's not that easy but surely we all have NI numbers. So the govt could have a citizens account that charges go to based on our NI numbers. Most of us would pay with no issue like the council tax and the ones that didn't would be put on 'stop' and wouldn't be able to get any further help. I'm not saying it has to work exactly like this but you get the drift.
Police - I'm actually quite worried about our police force. If you think these are the people who stand between us (law abiding citizens) and violent drug dealers, murderers and rapists, wife beaters, kiddie molesters etc. Can you imagine how scary it would be to not have them. The trouble is the pay for the police who are on 'response' ie the ones that go to 999 calls and deal with all the horrible stuff are not really very well paid when you consider the danger they face. Already the police are having trouble recruiting and standards are going down and down. Anyone remember when policemen were tall, slim, smart, model citizens and sort of looked up to and respected. They weren't allowed beards or tatoo's and they had to be a certain height. All that's going out of the window and now I see lots that are scruffy, short, bearded and tatooed. Okay maybe that does not matter but the point I am making is they have had to lower their 'standards' to recruit people because it's a dangerous job and people are leaving in their droves. I was in a relationship with a police detective who at age 40 had to go back into uniform as part of a transfer of location. So he spent 1 year as a response policeman and you would not people the stuff he had to deal with. Drunks, fights, domestic violence, he had to deal with a man holding his partner hostage with a gun. The armed police took hours to arrive and so there he was having to handle the situation unarmed. He was high as a kite that night on adrenalin and he was normally a very calm, measured, in control person. They pick up body parts, cut down suicides, deal with drug gangs and this is just 'another day at the office for them'. They get swore at, insulted, spat at, asaulted and all the time they have to keep their cool. I sure as hell don't want to live in a society without that protection. So another idea - £10 quid charge everytime you call 999.
Anyway I could say more but raising taxes is not the way to go.
I know my ideas are not fully thought out and will have loads of holes in them but surely some of them could be implemented in some form.