To give you the pensioners facts

[Moier]

So many threads about pensioners being well off.
I've just had my forecast.
I turn 66 in November .
Those born after September 23rd 1958 will not get the winter fuel allowance no matter what credits you are on.
Esa etc etc.
My forecast us £221 per week.
Also pensioners still have to pay rent.
Council house tenants will still pay bedroom tax.
Pensioners won't get council tax reduction.
Unless you have paid into a private pension .. pensioners will be the poorest they have ever been.
And we waited an extra 6 years for bugger all.
Stammer is the theif that has stolen all our golden hours.

I have some sympathy for some pensioners but I'm tired of the moaning. Cheaper housing, even with the 17% interest rise years ago, free uni, cheaper food, better nhs.
Ad the pensioners say to the younger people with no hope of ever buying a house...cut your cloth and stop buying Starbucks coffee then maybe you can afford the heating bills.

Young people and disabled have been clobbered for years and years. As for the we've worked hard all our loves and paid in..it doesn't work like that..

Well said. The peak mortgage rate of 16/17% was for a VERY short period of time. Mortgage rates in the 70s, 80s, and 90s, averaged 10% or less.

Mostly correct, though food wasn't cheaper in the 70s, in real terms it was more expensive and the majority didn't go to university. However, housing was much cheaper!