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So spending as little money as possible is more important to you than spending an appropriate amount of money to get an appropriately run state. What an odd outlook.

Nope. You'll just get another twitter echo chamber claim, again unsubstantiated.

The only relevant stat.

How's your freedom being impacted by identifying yourself, then doing the thing that you want to do freely? How's it dangerous? Draconian, not even close, and safeguards aren't authoritarian, they're safeguards.

Absolutely. If nothing else, kids aren't learning how to communicate face to face, and have an entirely distorted view of reality. Something has to be done, although I'm not sure what.

It's just a way of creating a 4 quarter game as per American football to squeeze in adverts. Watch this space for whether it carries on after the world cup.

Syndrome

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.