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It's welfare, and completely different to a "any pension scheme" - you neither save nor have a a defined benefit. All your NI payments do is gain you an entitlement to some form of state pension at a variable date in the future, and go in the pot as per any tax. None of us started paying NI with a contract to get a guaranteed amount, at a guaranteed date, with a guaranteed annual increase. It's bizarre that people talk as if that's what they've done.

I'll take the non answer to mean that you want the triple lock for the state pension to stay, as you get it, but that shouldn't apply to any other form of welfare.

Yep...but what else to wear doing the gardening?

Socks + crocs = an update on a classic.

It is, although, I'll rephrase Do you feel all welfare should be triple locked, or just the state pension?

I haven't suggested that I think that. Do you feel all welfare should be triple locked, or just the one you receive?

Disagree. I'm against the triple lock - knowing it'll impact many people, my folks included - simply because it's unaffordable. I'm sure this doesn't apply to you, but what gets my goat is pensioners screaming to slash welfare, but insisting that the triple lock remains. The entire welfare state needs serious attention, the state pension included.

I think we could have activated the extension at any time before it was too late, but I take the point others have said that it made sense that we saw what league we were in before committing. Sadly, we were then undone by the technicality, and a mercenary Ross. The lack of loyalty in the game cuts both ways to be fair, but I find Ross's decision to walk pretty classless.

That's a good bit of business. Him coming back in January kick started our season.

I'm not sure whether I'm more disappointed in his lack of gratitude, or us not exercising the extension in time. Probably more with him on balance.

That's ridiculous. Net zero is a pointless pipe dream, and I hadn't appreciated that it had touched the military where it matters. When the battlefield is strewn with bodies and broken equipment, why would anyone give a monkeys about the carbon footprint.

Ah ok, immigrants are welcome but only if they have money. Gotcha.

So foreigners leaving - good or bad? You need to pick a lane mate.

Indeed. This must be a proper conundrum for the likes of Sir Ralph and Osvoldoramo though. Immigrants are going, but less people with a few quid are left - do they cry or celebrate?

That's a very long way to say that you want less immigration, and that more people = more crime. We're going nowhere here so I'll tap out.