Really good, but please don't fall into the trap of talking about older people as a burden, especially because it's not clear that you're not actually talking about *disabled* people (those older people with a disability that need care, which are a minority of older people). You wouldn't say, "more and more of the population are becoming disabled, putting a strain on our economic system", would you?
I totally understand your point, and I certainly don't see pensioners as a burden - they're people who've contributed to our society in a myriad of ways who deserve their retirement.
I just mean it's an economic reality that a smaller working age population and a growing retired population have fiscal consequences.
In general, I think the left has a blindspot when it comes to age-related issues. Not mentioning any names, but some left commentators are openly and virulently ageist. I don't think that's the case with you, but I do think you've got to start with the reality of ageism and its intersection with ableism (amongst other things), and go from there.
But you've got a billionaire idiot to eviscerate in a few hours, so maybe a conversation for another time. Good luck!
"In September 2020, Ratcliffe officially changed his tax residence from Hampshire to Monaco, a move that it is estimated will save him £4 billion in tax.[3]"
That's a lot of tax dodge, on his 'beloved' England.
Brilliant. I absolutely do not know where I am from: Born in Sri Lanka in 1949 to disgusting British Colonial parents who viewed this Sovereign country as their own whilst speaking 'down' to the people who had lived there for generations. 4 countries later still living in Colonial Europe.
Me and my sister (age 7yrs and 8yrs) were sent to Boarding School in England.
Most people in this school were white, this is when I started my life long disgust with the English people. NONE of the teachers would talk about recent History and most of the time none of the brainwashed kids either.
Luckily me and my sister stayed for holidays with our Grandparents in Lancashire. my Grandfather was a Socialist working for the N.W. Gas company (having fought in 2 World Wars in the Navy). He came back to England disgusted with the English.
He started many schools for immigrants and English people who were very poor like he had been.
I learned a lot from this wonderful man.
(On returning to Sri Lanka I saw through his eyes.............and I was confirmed in my opinion that
the English were/are racist disgusting people).
By then the 'elite' Sri Lankans were NO different from the British
I could go on But....it's a long history.
Every white country (mostly the West) are nothing but ugly/smelly/and unscrupulous.
I live in the great French Empire now which has lost it's colonies.
How dare anyone in these countries deny immigrants?
Owen, the only way to escape the nightmare of wealthy elites twisting the facts, per Ratcliffe, is to scrap the whole failed system of pretend-democrcay. Replace it with a written constitution for a federal UK, one person one vote not one pound one vote, require all communications to be "fair, clear, and not misleading" (UK financial services rules, so good enough for politicians), and ban character assassination.
These points are just a taster. More in my book Reinventing Democracy.
Yeah let's all pile on to Jim Ratcliffe with righteous indignation because of a clumsy ill-judged comment made during an interview which had already gone off-topic. Of course he should have known better but in no way was it a "rant". Keir Starmer and the cabinet can barely conceal their delight at how paedophilia has been bumped off today's news headlines. Britain needs its essential core industries. Successive governments have allowed those industries to decline near to extinction. Like it or not, we need Ratcliffe and other "elite" entrepreneurs, investors, call them what you will, to rescue and support an industrial base in this country, against a background (amongst other things) of extortionate energy costs. Without them, we're left with a government clueless as to how to support a successful industrial base.
Really good, but please don't fall into the trap of talking about older people as a burden, especially because it's not clear that you're not actually talking about *disabled* people (those older people with a disability that need care, which are a minority of older people). You wouldn't say, "more and more of the population are becoming disabled, putting a strain on our economic system", would you?
I totally understand your point, and I certainly don't see pensioners as a burden - they're people who've contributed to our society in a myriad of ways who deserve their retirement.
I just mean it's an economic reality that a smaller working age population and a growing retired population have fiscal consequences.
In general, I think the left has a blindspot when it comes to age-related issues. Not mentioning any names, but some left commentators are openly and virulently ageist. I don't think that's the case with you, but I do think you've got to start with the reality of ageism and its intersection with ableism (amongst other things), and go from there.
But you've got a billionaire idiot to eviscerate in a few hours, so maybe a conversation for another time. Good luck!
Well said!
"In September 2020, Ratcliffe officially changed his tax residence from Hampshire to Monaco, a move that it is estimated will save him £4 billion in tax.[3]"
That's a lot of tax dodge, on his 'beloved' England.
Brilliant. I absolutely do not know where I am from: Born in Sri Lanka in 1949 to disgusting British Colonial parents who viewed this Sovereign country as their own whilst speaking 'down' to the people who had lived there for generations. 4 countries later still living in Colonial Europe.
Me and my sister (age 7yrs and 8yrs) were sent to Boarding School in England.
Most people in this school were white, this is when I started my life long disgust with the English people. NONE of the teachers would talk about recent History and most of the time none of the brainwashed kids either.
Luckily me and my sister stayed for holidays with our Grandparents in Lancashire. my Grandfather was a Socialist working for the N.W. Gas company (having fought in 2 World Wars in the Navy). He came back to England disgusted with the English.
He started many schools for immigrants and English people who were very poor like he had been.
I learned a lot from this wonderful man.
(On returning to Sri Lanka I saw through his eyes.............and I was confirmed in my opinion that
the English were/are racist disgusting people).
By then the 'elite' Sri Lankans were NO different from the British
I could go on But....it's a long history.
Every white country (mostly the West) are nothing but ugly/smelly/and unscrupulous.
I live in the great French Empire now which has lost it's colonies.
How dare anyone in these countries deny immigrants?
WHITE people need to learn some lessons.
Owen, the only way to escape the nightmare of wealthy elites twisting the facts, per Ratcliffe, is to scrap the whole failed system of pretend-democrcay. Replace it with a written constitution for a federal UK, one person one vote not one pound one vote, require all communications to be "fair, clear, and not misleading" (UK financial services rules, so good enough for politicians), and ban character assassination.
These points are just a taster. More in my book Reinventing Democracy.
Yeah let's all pile on to Jim Ratcliffe with righteous indignation because of a clumsy ill-judged comment made during an interview which had already gone off-topic. Of course he should have known better but in no way was it a "rant". Keir Starmer and the cabinet can barely conceal their delight at how paedophilia has been bumped off today's news headlines. Britain needs its essential core industries. Successive governments have allowed those industries to decline near to extinction. Like it or not, we need Ratcliffe and other "elite" entrepreneurs, investors, call them what you will, to rescue and support an industrial base in this country, against a background (amongst other things) of extortionate energy costs. Without them, we're left with a government clueless as to how to support a successful industrial base.
Mate, stop licking those boots - your mouth will taste better!