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Tony Blair Institute urges Labour to scrap the pension 'triple lock'
The Tony Blair Institute urged Labour to scrap the state pension 'triple lock' as 'unaffordable' and proposed replacing it with a lifespan-style pension fund. The institute said the current triple lock, which raises the state pension each year by inflation, average earnings, or 2.5 percent, was built for a different era and now strains public finances. The proposal would pool longevity risk and smooth payouts across cohorts to sustain pensions long term, while critics warn it could reduce future annual increases and note roughly 2 million pensioners live in poverty.
Tony Blair’s thinktank urges Labour to scrap ‘unaffordable’ pension triple lock. 2m pensioners live in poverty. Full post-2016 state pension is received by 35% of retirees, less than 50% of minimum wage. Silence on taxing the rich, redistribution, ending corporate welfare.
The BFG20Blair showing what real socialists have known for years he is a horrible right-wing Tory at heart just like Starmer the once democratic socialist Labour Party is dead
IrishWoke19UK has one of the LOWEST pensions in Europe Of course that means nothing to multi millionaires like Blair
James 🏳️🌈10In any sane society this man would be at The Hague for war crimes.
Janice Pearson10In fairness he was always on the right of centre wasn’t he? It was Brown’s influence as chancellor that bought in so many good initiatives during the Blair years.
seano32.bsky.social9I read multi-millionaire Malcolm Offord claimed £35k+ expenses for 6 months. That's around 3 x annual State Pensions. We know what the 'establishment' priorities are, and its not for ordinary people. Tax the rich.
AlanB8He's no better than Johnson. Let the bodies pile high. Poverty kills, ergo, he and his ilk believe the old should just die off. Evil man.
Helen7Tony Blair supports the peace board with the war mongering.
Grahame Walker 🏴7Tony Blair was an MP he was also PM. He’s neither now. So keep your think tank to yourself.
Alan6Blair Johnson Starmer.... We can do better.
lyndaspeake.bsky.social6The most infuriating thing about the people who call for ending the triple lock is their arrogance. I doubt that even one of them has ever tried to live in what can only be described as penury for some. The triple lock is not unaffordable, it’s down to how ‘we‘ choose to spend.
Sam Smith6Starmer's lot tax my pension, when the wages it is based on were already taxed. And it's such a small pension. Yet his lot won't tax the rich, just us poor old pensioners. For peanuts.
Helen #FBPE #NHS #ClimateCrisis 🇪🇺🇬🇧🇺🇦🏳️🌈💙6How was Tony Blair ever a Labour politician? He moved the party to Tory central ground!😠
iniseoghain.bsky.social5The multi millionaire, Tony Blair, who will never have to worry about the weekly rate of his state pension, saying this? Well, I never.
DaveTheDrunk5Would that be multi millionaire Tony Blair?
Dan (this/that) 🇪🇺🇵🇹📷4As if there aren't enough reasons for voters to turn away from Labour.
Gem&Molly ⓥ4Do you mean multi millionaire Tony Blair? Warmonger Tony Blair, willing to spend a fortune on conflicts which are nothing to do with us?
ratcinque4We have an absolute pittance for a pension. Fairer taxation!
Kevin Theobald4Send him to The Hague.
Joe Hislop4Tony Blair’s net worth is estimated to be £60 million.
Looking out to sea.4So, Blair wants to make Labour even more unfavourable! Could a worldwide detested popularist be controlling him? Being as Blair, during his term as PM, was pushing for Britain to be ever more Americanised it's not that surprising.
upyrs.bsky.social3You mean the multi millionaire Socialist Tony Blair ? That Tony Blair? Well who'd 'av' thought it ? It's a strange thing that I imagined as you got older ,yr heart/mind/soul became less bitter & evil. What gives with these once Labour champions turning on their own? Sad days I'm afraid.
Everton Jeff3Proof if further proof were needed that this bastard masquerading as a labour politician was in fact an acolyte of thatcher, wouldn’t surprise me if reeves was seriously considering this as she & Starmer are no better than
It’s me, Claire 💚3He shouldn’t worry, they’re killing us off earlier by making us work longer.
Tom Hickmore3Fuck off Tony, you rich bastard.
demas751.bsky.social3Greedy man stealing from the weak again.
Clive3Blair can fuck right off snd count his millions he has no idea how pensioners live in the U.K.
Sile O' Suileabhain 🕊️☮️ ☘️✌🏾3He’s as vile as they come, a Tory through and through. He’s also going after vulnerable people with disabilities like anxiety, depression, ADHD etc. which will obviously make them destitute. Only a low life would do that. They are starkly targeted in this new paper he has written.
Joe3Dear Tony Fuck off. Sincerely Anyone who isn’t a millionaire
John✊🏴 YES!2I wonder what Blair will say when the time comes to meet his maker? He's responsible for so much horror.
PA2Yep that'll encourage pensioners to get out there and start earning £millions 🤦 After a wealth tax is introduced and working. It's just unaffordable to have so many millionaires, and billionaires should simply not exist in our society.
Gillian Rodgers2Tory Blair thru and thru.
Firstname Lastname #FuckTrump2Disgusting. The king of neoliberal rot.
Story of bas Monde2Just showing what a sad piece of work he is
Ursula Hanna2My elderly neighbour visited me once & for a while she chatted about local gossip & how my daughter was doing. Then out of the blue she started talking about Jesus & being saved etc. She told me that Tony Blair was the literal Biblical AntiChrist. I’m starting to wonder if she was right🤔
Avril Jones 📷2Was that a ‘different era’ when governments didn’t try to kill off pensioners by starving and freezing them? An era when a lifetime of work was respected and the elderly were cared for? An era when the UK was not governed by sadists?
buffythehat.bsky.social2I have long thought of Blair as a neocon with no current relevance
Julia2Shameful - he is partly responsible for continuing Thatcher's legacy and thus our current dire state.
Proud Lefty CW💚🏳️🌈🇬🇧🇮🇷🎧2Tony Blair sits on Trump's Fascist led, so called, Board of Peace. Labour should not be consulting the Tony Blair Institute about our Pension. It is like consulting Israel's defence department about the human rights of Palastinians. It will end in millions of Pensioners falling into poverty. 🤬
Shame on Tony Blair!! NO-ONE who thinks the state pension of £12k is enough to live on will EVER have to live on that. Ever. That is only HALF the minimum wage!! Unbelievable. "Scrap triple lock, urges Tony Blair". ##UKPOLITICS
Stevie 🇬🇧 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🇵🇸15it's affordable if you tax billionaires.
Sag13He's a multi millionaire...doesn't the twat realise that many many pensioners receive only State Pension and the triple lock is vital for their survival.
4017xan.bsky.social11Is it really “unaffordable”? Or is it that the people who top up Blair’s pension want all welfare reduced and the savings diverted to themselves?
Jeanie8Irelevant man makes irrelevant comment about an issue he knows nothing about......
Karen Z6The rich are always willing to let us live on less. #eattherich
Vivienne5As a councillor I meet pensioners who have to manage on just the state pension, renting a flat which takes up most of their pension leaving nothing for bills or food. That’s why I support the triple lock. Lowest pension in Europe. And Trump’s war is driving up inflation. Blair has no clue.
flyfella.bsky.social5Blair is flying kites for right-wing nutjobs, as well as being a ‘peace envoy’ in Israel-that went well-he has a privately funded wanktank which has pushed some really dodgy neoliberal bullshit. He’s very close to Starmer.
Janet5This Tony Blair? Wonder how he's coping on earning so little each year! 😡 (This if course, does not include his other financial earnings /income). He's positively brassic poor thing!
Sir_LANs-a-lot4Anyone else getting real fuckin' tired of millionaires trying to make life shitter for the rest of us?
Indeed. He's just another callous millionaire. This is supposed to be a G7 country, the world's 5th largest economy and yet has the lowest pension in Western Europe. The triple lock is affordable and is a political choice.
Mr T4To put the UK pension in perspective my state pension from the Netherlands after 15 years of working there is worth more than the full uk pension! We have the lowest OAP in Europe and now they want to get rid of the only guarantee that it will at least keep pace with inflation.
Marc Woodhurst4Everyone else “tax Tony Blair”…
Wilf Thompson4Who is Tony Blair? How anyone can combine his name with the word Think in the same sentence needs putting out of their misery. War mongering parasite.
Barry3Stick this bloke in a high rise for a month living off nothing but a state pension and let’s see his vision after that. Twat
Robin Layfield (he/they) 💚 🌈 ✊🏽2Money for war, subsidies for fossil fuels, no money for anyone else
claude-oneshot.bsky.social2He used the labour party as the vehicle to get what he wanted, now he's just another arsehole who should be in prison for war crimes.
Ken Spearpoint2Blair is a neoliberal multi-millionaire. He has nothing of value to say in behalf of ordinary people, he speaks for his class, the elite.
Joan Hunter Dunn2Supported hm for years, now done. First Trump's Billionaires' Club of despots, now this. Bugger off.
Gxro68832He needs to fuck off to America and fuckin stay there
chelsam.bsky.social2Tony Blair has never been a true Labour man, Tony Blair is more tory than the tories.
Ian.🇦🇺🇬🇧🦅2I suppose sucking Murdoch's dick , might make Rupert like him again.
Tony Blair once again doing his level best to neuter any quite fond non-Iraq memories of his government that we may have had.
Sanakism21To be fair, the headline started off really well: "Tony Blair: Outdated and unaffordable". Then it ruined it by having more words.
David Collier10UK state pensions are some of the worst in Europe. They are not unaffordable. It’s about priorities.
Laurence Riveira 7Tony Blair net well potentially over 70 million. It's always people who no longer need the state pension calling for reform. And there's a pattern. No uni tuition fees for Blair and his generation. Fees for everyone else's children. Every time he speaks he tarnishes new labours achievements.
KS_19684Their ideas are rather odd. Apparently they want more flexibility so eg ppl who are ill can take it earlier or you can take money out if you have money problems younger BUT the quid pro quo is that you only get equivalent 20 years of pension. The guy on R4 today did not elaborate...
James Steel4But he gets to enjoy his state pension and other benefits from being a former PM is fine?
Gildy Stern4I was only pondering yesterday, if you'd told me in 2005 that 21 years later it could be argued that Blair was still, probably, the best PM of the 21st Century, I'd have been stunned
Rootless Cosmopolitan3Sadly not all pensioners are funded by dodgy far right US billionaires and Central Asian autocrats.
LondonDiscuss3The Tony Blair Institute has turned into a magic eight-ball that just throws out George Osborne's fever dreams.
Captain Haddock3And what exactly does Tonty think we will replace it with?
Jeff2Can't we put him in a home?
Jak21997 to 2000, fantastic, the most positive I have ever been about politics and the future Everything past that, OMFG
Sylvia Booth2Just because he doesn’t need his state pension doesn’t mean others don’t.
Paul Cowling2That would be the same Tony Blair claiming £115000 every year as an ex Prime Minister.
Stephanie McKenzie2Someone said yesterday that he’s bitter about how people turned on him over Iraq and has been radicalised. Maybe if he’d engaged in some self reflection instead? 🙄
Dame Rainbow Warrior2Tony Blair can F.O! It was his government that introduced student fees!
Finite2Goes to show how much influence Gordon Brown had
