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You probably need to be careful accusing her on a publicly accessible forum of inventing a fake mugging. Not sure that's been reported anywhere? - so is potentially libellous.

In what way? It's in the same sentence / paragraph as an explanatory comment. It literally couldn't have been clearer.

You said earlier "and they promised in the campaign not to touch IHT for farmers" That link refers to a comment over a year ago. That's not during the campaign, and not related to the manifesto. As to NI - we've been through the discussion of working people may times before. We all knew...

Didn't read them.....

You really can't get away with that! Berty23 is referring to things that have recently been in the news, so don't need endless reading. The amount of lying that was carried on by the Tories is well known without a lot of reading - so are the dodgy deals for their mates and Farage not being...

Voted in some adults.

Can't read it - Telegraph seems to be only for the wealthy who can afford to pay.

Well - you obviously won't! But time will tell won't it.

Haven't they said they will be from now on? Can't change what has happened in the past, but are doing what you suggest?

Yes - but just because he might be 'unpopular' doesn't mean that everything is a disaster and the country is suffering. Which is what the post I was responding to was saying.

But in general things seem to be going okay don't they. We've had no new strikes, threats of strikes have been removed, we seem to be getting on with other countries instead of pissing them off, we're investigating new ways of sorting out asylum issues. And so on. Other than the Winter Fuel...

No you didn't mention the LGPS. BUT - we are part of the public sector, and you said it was a shortfall on 'public sector pensions'. It's just one area of public sector pensions that have a shortfall. I just get a bit fed up with being lumped into all the 'gold plater public sector pensions...

The Local Government Pension Scheme is fully funded by members and employers. There is no shortfall and the scheme receives no top up of the type you mention.

Yes - footballers are vastly overpaid. And it's our money on tickets, TV subscriptions and merchandise that pays for it. £5 for a cup final ticket in 1983 adjusted for inflation would be something like £17 today. Cheapest was £45 last year. We're overpaying for others to benefit, we all know...

We directly fund Tesco, and other companies through shopping / train fares / bills and so on. All their money starts with us. Of course it is something to do with you & me.

Not sure how many times I have to post this on NSC. Please do not lump us all together. I work for local government - and will not be getting a pay increase 'way above inflation'. Indeed. my salary has fallen by 25% in real terms since 2010, and it's not about to catch up. Indeed, it won't...

Interesting to see that the Labour vote has not gone to the Tories. And switching to the Green Party because you are concerned about losing benefits aimed at paying for heating, which is still mainly fossil fuel generated, is a little ironic.

It's to do with the WFP, not the state pension. 880k not claiming the pension credits they're entitled to.

Yes - good idea. But (there's always a but) how does this work for those who are not earning much in the first place. They are the ones who decide not to pay into a pension because they need the money to heat & eat etc. It's all very tricky.

I guess the main problem with means-testing pensions would again be where the cut-off point is. And it could lead to a drop in paying into private / work pensions - as why would people pay into them if all it means is a reduction in the amount of state pension they receive?