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It's 55 at the moment but goes up to 57 in 2030. I'm caught by the changeover.

That's my understanding as well.

Kitchen

Pathetic.

I'm no expert, but paying more than your annual limit (£48k net) into your pension does have tax consequences. If you've not used your full allowance over the last few years though, you should have unused allowances available to absorb any over contribution in this financial year.

"Two wrongs implies an equivalence" you've said. It doesn't.

Agreed. A back 5 on Saturday was daft, and that he didn't is either down to a lack of tactical flexibility or trust in his players. I'm not sure which, but I fear it's the former. I'd loved to have seen us go into that playing a 4231. We had the players to play that, and win comfortably.

Daft again. Britain smashed up Dresden unnecessarily. We all know there was no equivalence between Britain and Nazi Germany, but by your unique definition, by that act there must have been.

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It doesn't. Mutual condemnation is just that. Saying they're as bad as each other is equivalence. Only seeing fault on one side, as per you and a few others on here, is bewildering.

I was waiting for someone to pipe up suggesting that I'm implying equation/equivalence. Two wrongs, but some people only see one. Shameful.

On the subject of balanced views. I've never heard one shred of sympathy from you re the Palestinian plight.

I'm not sure you've actually read my posts from earlier today. Recognising both sides behaviour is not seeing only one position. What I don't like about the 'discussion' in this issue is the perpetual attempts to shut down any commentary that criticises the Israeli behaviour. Hamas are a disgrace. The IDF are disgrace. The Israeli suffering at the hands of Hamas is terrible. Ditto the the Palestinian suffering at the hands of the Israeli's. I'm unsure where the imbalance is there.

It's a shame that you don't like a balanced discussion on this issue. Equivalence, no, but mutual disgraceful behaviour, yes. It should be possible to recognise that.

What happened to that bloke and his family was horrendous. Alas, there's unimaginable cruelty on both sides of this. Pretty much every one of the 183 Palestinian's released yesterday needed hospital treatment because of how they were treated. Overnight the Israeli's shot an 8 month pregnant woman, and critically injured her husband, just because.

Yep. Reform's manifesto was the height of nonsensical. Completely unrealistic in their approach, but they'll repeat it and I suspect people will lap it up as it'll be "change" and they believe they'll be better off. Although I take Duck's point above, anyone buying Reform's BS have to be either a bit daft and/or not give a monkeys about the impact of their policies on public services and those needing state support/education/healthcare.

True. Young people can be stupid too. The reality though is we live in a world where people are increasingly selfish, and expect something for nothing, so the reform policies will appeal to those who are swayed by that.

Well it has, and council tax will cease to exist in the near ish future. There'll be a much costlier replacement.

Yep, selfishness and high expectations do not go hand in hand.

Agreed, although I think they'd have got home if they'd said that the NI giveaway was unaffordable and needed to be reviewed. I also think they failed to appreciate the impact and the jib losses as a consequence.

Absolutely. The dinlo's boxed themselves into a corner over NI. The scary thing is that the changes have yet to come in. Unemployment will creep up, tax revenue will reduce, and we'll be back to the next crisis management. There'll be sweeping changes to the council tax system I'm guessing, possibly VAT, fuel duty, and inevitably massive spending cuts.

You're unbelievable. Only you would think that it's possible to believe what you believe, but not the reverse. If you can support capital punishment but not assisted suicide, for whatever reason, then someone else can support the opposite!

Ha. He's a dangerous idiot, but I'm not joining others in pretending I'm a psychologist or psychiatrist.

You've confirmed what I've posted - you oppose assisted suicide, but do not oppose capital punishment. Yet you cannot understand the logic of someone having the reverse view. You appear to have an issue with respecting people having differing opinions to you. That's the nub of it.

I've no idea what he is, but we know more about him to make a judgement than we do about strangers on a forum, and discussing him is more interesting than seeing the same old bollox being perpetually written about the same posters.