Dear Editor
There is much discussion over the future of the ‘triple lock’ for pensioners and whether Britain can afford it.
My wife and I are just scraping by on our meagre pensions – ‘earned’, we feel (rightly or wrongly), by our contributions since we started work at 17. We recently received a letter from HMRC of our annual pension increase; in almost the same post was a notice from our local council of our annual council tax increase: our pension rise was almost completely wiped out by the council tax increase.
What makes us – and, we know, many other older Britons – very angry is the suggestion that it would be quite acceptable to take away this much-needed income from older folk like ourselves (who have contributed taxes all our lives) ‘because Britain cannot afford it’ yet at the same time it is fine to squander untold billions on handouts to recent immigrants and others who contribute little to this country.
Likewise the countless billions being wasted on the utterly senseless Net Zero scam.
The savings to be made by controlling immigration and scrapping Net Zero would not only ensure that the triple lock is maintained, but would also enhance Britain’s general economic status.
Lastly, we would gladly forgo the triple lock increase if the resulting savings were to be cascaded down to Britain’s indigenous young people who, like my wife and I when we were struggling in our youth to buy a home and raise a family, would be helped by our pension sacrifice.
Ken and Gill Burnley
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