PMQs - the triple lock

A rise of 10.1%. Remember though if you are now over the basic tax threshold with your income exceeding £12,750 you will pay 20%tax on the amount over this. If you were near the higher rate £50,270 you will pay 40% on the amount over this. I am assuming that the 2023/24 tax bands will stay the same and that is probaly a vain hope as this increase has to be funded somehow.

On, off, on , off..honestly they don’t know where they are!

I wasn’t surprised. She had to pull something out of the bag today, I don’t think there was ever any intention to get rid of the triple lock, the refusal to confirm it would remain was just a cynical move to help her at PMQ.

This sounded to me like a trap they had laid in advance - "one of the questions will be triple-lock, can we wrong-foot them?". But Blackford wasn't as nimble as I'd normally expect.

Ken Clarke has just said that he is frightened to go to the toilet in case the triple lock is changed again.

Perhaps it was a spur of the moment decision without consultation. There are a lot of Tory supporters (or were) who are over pension age!
I won’t be spending it yet…….

Whitewavemark2

Ken Clarke has just said that he is frightened to go to the toilet in case the triple lock is changed again.

No Whitewavemark2 that is a parody account.

Ken Clarke hasn’t put out any tweets on his blue tick account for years.

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Oh! Still the comment still stands whoever he is I think.

It simply shows that the chaos is still there.

No it shows that people take for gospel what they read/see on Twitter without checking.

I fell foul to a parody account recently, I asked for my post referencing it to be deleted to save confusion.

I never post on Twitter so not an issue

Perhaps, as an afterthought, she said that she and the Chancellor had agreed on the triple lock.

Whitewavemark2

I never post on Twitter so not an issue

Sorry Whitewavemark2 you have posted a direct Twitter quote attributing it to Ken Clarke, when in fact it wasn’t.

This is how untruths spread on the internet.

Like I said I fell foul and posted a tweet from what I thought was a genuine account on GN recently, as soon as it was pointed out to me that it was a parody account I asked GN to delete my post so as not to cause any confusion or spread an untruth.

I think she was told to say that she supported keeping the Triple Lock - to prevent pensioner panic. To be honest, she can say anything she wants right now, as there seems little chance of her being in power next April.

I'm not holding my breath for a State pension rise in line with inflation next year.

It is indeed a parody account, but I have the same feeling at the moment.

Like Farzanah, I'm not making any plans to spend the extra money I fear we'll not get.

Maggiemaybe

It is indeed a parody account, but I have the same feeling at the moment.

Like Farzanah, I'm not making any plans to spend the extra money I fear we'll not get.

Yes I’m fed up with trying to forward plan.

GrannyGravy13

Whitewavemark2

I never post on Twitter so not an issue

Sorry Whitewavemark2 you have posted a direct Twitter quote attributing it to Ken Clarke, when in fact it wasn’t.

This is how untruths spread on the internet.

Like I said I fell foul and posted a tweet from what I thought was a genuine account on GN recently, as soon as it was pointed out to me that it was a parody account I asked GN to delete my post so as not to cause any confusion or spread an untruth.

Sorry gg it isn’t something that I get terribly hot under the collar about.

It was the sentiment in the comment I thought was worth mentioning, and something many pensioners would recognise.

I’m a WASPI still waiting for my bloomin pension ?

Mind you the triple lock promise was in the manifesto

Whitewavemark2

GrannyGravy13

Whitewavemark2

I never post on Twitter so not an issue

Sorry Whitewavemark2 you have posted a direct Twitter quote attributing it to Ken Clarke, when in fact it wasn’t.

This is how untruths spread on the internet.

Like I said I fell foul and posted a tweet from what I thought was a genuine account on GN recently, as soon as it was pointed out to me that it was a parody account I asked GN to delete my post so as not to cause any confusion or spread an untruth.

Sorry gg it isn’t something that I get terribly hot under the collar about.

It was the sentiment in the comment I thought was worth mentioning, and something many pensioners would recognise.

I am not hot under the collar WW this parody account is harmless, unfortunately some aren’t and cause distress and the repetition of untruths.

I follow it as I find it comical.

Whitewavemark2

Mind you the triple lock promise was in the manifesto

So was the moratorium on fracking, look how that’s going.

No I was talking about me.

Whitewavemark2

No I was talking about me.

Pax ?