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AFAIK, once you have "legal" status in the UK via whatever means (Refugee status, ILR etc) you have full access to the benefit system, including pensions and pension credit.
I've never worked in Pensions so there may be technicalities that I'm not aware of, but that's my understanding of it.
I don't often drive more than 200 miles in a round trip, but when I do I prefer to be able to do it without sitting in a services for 40 minutes charging the car, even if I can find a charging point, so I'll stick with my hybrid for now.
If SSB's are as good as advertised then they will be a game changer and I'd definitely consider one.
I am pleased and encouraged by the sheer volume of people I see talking about this subject who are dead set against it.
The last thing we want is for the place to become like a Rugby game, with idiots up and down and back and fore the bar every ten minutes, or spewing up in their seats, or tossing their drinks in the air if we score.
It's performative nonsense from Burnham. Something he thinks that the "working classes" support, when he's done his level best to avoid them for decades.
People who have never paid into the system should not get pensions.
As it stands you can get away with not contributing a penny and be only a couple of quid worse off than someone who has paid a lifetime of NI. There are people who have arrived in the UK within the last five years getting a pension topped up with pension credit. That needs to stop.
Those who have been unable to work due to serious disability should be able to continue claiming an existing benefit, but not a pension.
I've already been told that I've got to wait longer for my work pension now than I did when I started. Wouldn't bet against it moving again by the time I get there.
When I started work the SP age was 65. Now it's 68. By the time I get there it will probably be 70. It is what it is.
We have to accept as a Society that the Government can't fund everything. It shouldn't even try. People should be encouraged to have private pensions, private healthcare, private education. Offer them tax incentives to do so. I guarantee that it would save the taxpayer money in the long term.
Only thing that the Government should be providing is services that can't really be done so privately (legal/judicial system, defence, Emergency) and for those who can't afford private, which would still be most people but hopefully a lot less.
And the welfare system needs to be absolutely gutted. Torn back to the bricks and rebuilt because it's growing exponentially and nobody has the stones to put it right.
Agree completely with this. The messaging around Pensions should have been changed decades ago, but Governments have all been scared to.
It is a benefit. Paid for out of general taxation rather than any "pot". I'd argue that there should indeed be a pot, or Sovereign Wealth Fund, or whatever you want to call it, where people's pension contributions are paid. Get this money out there earning and growing rather than just disappearing into the abyss.
If the average worker's NI contributions (both theirs and their employers) had been paid into an average pension fund between 1980 & 2020 instead of just going into Government funds they'd have a pot of easily over £500k, potentially much higher. So that's a pension significantly higher than the current SP, and also one that the Govt doesn't have to fund.
Been a bugbear of mine for years that young players aren't really "looked after". It's OK for the ones who do eventually turn pro, but the many, many more cast aside in the process need better care in a lot of areas. Education, mental health support, vocational training etc.
Having something you may have dreamed about and worked for basically since the age that you became capable of coherent thought taken away from you must be shattering, especially since the vast majority of these lads have no real chance of making it and the clubs already know that. They're just being kept on to make up the numbers. Led to believe that they still have a chance.
Sure, a lot of those at the top academies may find a place lower down the pyramid, but a lot of them don't even get there. There's been at least one high profile suicide as a result, but I bet there's many, many more who go off the rails in other ways.
You probably need a sizeable ego to want to be a football manager in the first place, and when you keep failing like he does then I suppose a bit of lashing out is only to be expected.
Especially if you've got no idea why you're failing. Which he clearly doesn't since he's been sacked so often.
Good video this. Comes across like a level headed, well spoken young man with the right mentality to progress in the professional game.
Good insight into some behind the scenes stuff too. The fact that he can go straight from football training into the classroom to complete a BTEC is something all professional clubs should offer their young players.
Reform's biggest asset and its biggest problem is Farage.
Few people on the centre right, and it is the centre right despite what many will insist, have grasped the zeitgeist as much as old Nige. By stating generally mid right wing views over the last few years he has captured a lot of the territory the Conservatives used to inhabit before they went all "Lib Dem" with Cameron, May and Johnson.
The downside is that Farage is a bit of a shit. An utterly untrustworthy chancer nowhere near capable of being Prime Minister, but nobody else they have has anything like his appeal to a certain section of the public, and thanks to their decision to fill their ranks with failed Tories that situation has only gotten worse.
So the party most likely to challenge the current hapless Labour Govt isn't really up to forming a capable Govt themselves. I like Badenoch but the Tories are also miles away.
Basically Britain is F*cked. A military coup might be our best option, if only the armed forces weren't also an underfunded mess.
Millwall are inconsistent and conceding nearly two goals a game on average. I wouldn't read too much into their early performance against the Hammers. They'd have been well up for that. Far more so than in most games. I wouldn't expect us to walk it, but it's winnable.
I have the impression in my head that we usually lose at Loftus Road. I might be wrong, but they're having a good season anyway. Very solid defensively so far. It's going to be a tough one.
Pompey are currently 19th. A draw is the minimum we should be looking for I reckon.
The first priority of any promoted side is to still be in the division the next season and you do that by being hard to beat. I'd say that they're a fair way towards achieving that aim. They really made us work for the win, as was expected. We'll play worse sides and not win. We probably already have.
Having said that, we did make it a little too easy for them to do so in the first half, and the way we came out in the second suggests that Matos thought the same and said so during the break.
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