Pensions and riots
What is the possible link between the anti-police rioting in Southampton and pensions?
Well, according to Pensions UK, 3/4s of workers are not saving enough to ensure even an “adequate” pension when they retire. The organisation puts that at a modest £45,400 for a couple, not a great deal of money but just enough to be OK. Having a comfortable retirement costs far more.
But the chances of ordinary working people saving the kind of money necessary to retire comfortably died years ago. The death of final salary pensions, then of any company pensions, the emasculation of trade unions, the cost of running a private pension yourself and then the squeeze on wages and living standards for decades now, mean that even if they did have some spare money to save it would never be enough for a decent pension; so why bother.
I doubt very much whether the knuckle dragging, racists scum bags who attacked the police yesterday can possibly make any connection between their finances and their racist, murderous intent; but it is there.
For decades they have been worn down by low pay, bad education, bad jobs, low life chances and, it has to be said, their own inability to see that education is the only way out of their situation.
But instead they blame ethnic minorities and have simply lapped up the ridiculous claims that whites are discriminated against, that immigrants jump the housing queues and get cash hand outs, that if only DEI disappeared they would all have jobs.
Why?
Because it is both easier for them to think that than think about why their life chances are really so bad and because the very people who would take away even the minimum wage, what work protections they still have and privatise the NHS, want them to think like they do.
We have created an underclass of mainly white, ill educated, low skilled, low income losers and amongst their midst is a hard core of bigoted, easily whipped up thugs.
Better pensions are not really the answer but they are a sign, these people know even their old age will not be comfortable and nor will their children’s.
They are constantly angry as a result and we now have politicians so cynical and nasty that they will ignite that anger at any opportunity.
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Don't forget the role the media has played in this. In the recent riots in particular. Days of reporting alternately that the murderer was carrying a knife required by his religion which he used to commit the murder, and that the murder weapon was a larger knife, not the wee religious one tucked within his clothing. Sikhs appear to be the next hate group for the media now!
"We have created an underclass of mainly white, ill educated, low skilled, low income losers and amongst their midst is a hard core of bigoted, easily whipped up thugs"...
Sounds rather like a large country to the west of the UK - and we certainly don't want any more of their influence!!