Hello Hunt - Farewell Triple Lock?

[Diasi]

While I agree that the current situation appears to be a disaster, never forget that the real disaster is the disaster-in-waiting on the opposition benches.

Also, never forget that Labour was opposed to the Tory's triple lock for the State Pension & voted against it.

[Michael Rolls]

despite everything, I am still sure that a Labour government would be even worse

[Cassandra]

Gentlemen, unfortunately the 'Sheeple', who are majoratively economically illiterate, will judge the idiot Labour party as marksmen, compared to the Tories! These are currently pre-occupied missing everything on the range, except each other.

Five chancellors, since the idiot Johnson got his 80 seat majority in 2019. Farcical, worse than any Premiership football club Manager replacement ratio! Nothing but ribald entertainment for the rest of the world to laugh at! This lot are mad and out of control. They careen us towards a Starmer 'pop up' government.
Utilising those awful women, Sturgeon and Lucas, with the old Welsh Windbag 2.0, Drakeford, they'd deliver us up to the EU and inevitably the Globalist elites as a tasty 'Hors d'oeuvre'!

What a total and utter mess, a ragbag of self possessed ego's with assassins like Gove, Schapps etc plotting off piste with their old cronies, Hammond, Grieve, Soubry Gauke etc. Ugly vindictive and machiavellian, every last one of them! Just imagine what contempt they must hold the electorate in to believe they can continue to get away with it!

I would no longer feel represented politically, were I in England now. The question is who else is there to turn too. Presently, a vacuum, it seems to me?

The worst Conservative administration in my lifetime, by a long, long way.

[Raven]

Yet still they get voted in, time after time.  You get what you vote for. Except in Scotland who don't vote Tory, yet we still have to put up with the Scunners. 

[klondike]

https://www.express.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/1683905/State-Pension-triple-lock-Chancellor-Jeremy-Hunt-u-turn-pensioners-emergency

State Pension triple lock at risk in next Hunt u-turn 'Anxious wait' with decision in days
Pensioners incomes face a new threat as Chancellor Jeremy Hunt warns the Government is going to slash government spending further.

[Diasi]

Personally I can withstand another small percentage State Pension rise & part of me would like to see a 2% increase so that I sit back & enjoy watching all the rage it will cause.

The Labour morons were against the mini-budget, which would have seen us get 10%, so they'll have a hard job shouting about it if it's dropped.

[klondike]

Any percent of very little amounts to very little anyway. It's the principal that counts. It was in the manifesto. They reneged on the last one saying that inflation would not be 8% so we only got 3%. They were right it is 10%.

[Jacqueline]

One thing for sure we are stuffed,  come April when the energy price cap goes through the roof even a 10% rise won't help us.

[GrannyMac]

By April, we'll be used to economising, and the weather will be warming up. OH, who was always switching up the heating got an 'oodie' for his birthday. Warm as toast now!

I heard the energy support and price caps will be reviewed, but I won't hold my breath.

[Raven]

Up to Tony Blair I was always a Labour voter, but they changed so much since TB, and I can't help wondering what they would do to get things sorted.
Would they remain Tory Lite? Or would they return to being Labour and sort things out differently.

[Diasi]

By April, we'll be used to economising, and the weather will be warming up. OH, who was always switching up the heating got an 'oodie' for his birthday. Warm as toast now!

I heard the energy support and price caps will be reviewed, but I won't hold my breath.

The only downside is when the fabric of our homes gets riddled with damp etc due to low / no heating.