I’m once again confessing that I occasionally give in to temptation and instantly regret it.
I’m talking about watching that vast wilderness called ‘Breakfast Television’. Home to an endless supply of numpties, deadbeats and vacuous, slack-jawed nincompoops who are daily brought into the studios and allowed free rein to voice their opinions which, like a rogue breakfast bap bought from a roadside van, are half-baked and indigestible.
Take the recent discussion on Good Morning Britain between an articulate, cheerful spokesperson for pensioners and a sour-faced young woman who really ‘had it in’ for pensioners.
I’m unsure who she represented, other than the “I’ll keep interrupting you because I’m right and you’re wrong” Society, but the point she was making was that the State Pension is unsustainable and within 10 years it’ll have to be scrapped!
So, cancel that order for a new Ferrari, Gladys!
She was too busy being angry at seniors for having the audacity to reach the age when they’re entitled to a pension, to explain how (should the State Pension be scrapped) seniors, whose sole income is their state pension, will be able to buy food, pay their utilities, council tax and the other monthly bills we all have to pay.
Funny she didn’t mention that!
She resented that her generation’s National Insurance payments finance the current State Pensions of 1.9 million seniors, choosing to ignore the obvious fact that today’s pensioners had to do exactly the same during the 40 or 50 years they were working.
Anyone recall them going on TV moaning, “It’s so unfair!”?
She even brought up the tired cliché about pensioners ‘rattling around in houses that young people should be living in’.
Was she really unaware that due to marriage breakdowns and other domestic problems, many young people are living in pensioner’s houses, having moved back in with Mum and Dad – which they wouldn’t have been able to, if their parents had downsized to a one-bedroom flat, as the young lady ‘helpfully’ suggested they should.
Anyone wanna buy a telly with a boot-sized shape through the screen?