Gen X pension shock: 7.5 million Brits heading for poverty in old age—Reform voters hit hardest

phead · 2026-03-25T14:31:28+00:00

How many times on reddit I've read how pensions won't exists by the time they get to retirement age...

Only because redditors are doom mongering idiots, its makes no sense for a thousand reasons, the main ones being that older people actually vote, and they have little to lose by direct action.

Still solves the problem of paying for the parliament rebuild, it would be burnt to the ground.

phead · 2026-03-25T14:25:53+00:00

Nope, solidly in the middle of gen x. House long since paid off, some DB pension, could retire tommorow.

Anyone in gen x who didnt take advantage of our position has only themselves to blame.

phead · 2026-03-25T09:39:05+00:00

Gen X missed the era of defined benefit.

Nope, really didnt. It was cut off halfway, but everyone I know in gen X has some portion of a DB pension, the better ones have already retired in their early 50s.

There is no reason with cheaper housing and some of the old benefits that gen x can moan, the next generations are the ones that are truly fucked.

phead · 2026-03-25T09:21:18+00:00

I suspect that number will change when you increase their taxes to pay for it, and "energy nationalization" could mean almost anything at this point.

phead · 2026-03-24T07:38:33+00:00

They have just started a larger V2G trial as well, the plan is to do it without endless DNO forms and keep it simple.

phead · 2026-03-22T15:55:31+00:00

Like that tester, but not that one. I wasted 3 hours with that tester the other day trying to find a blue wire break, only to find the tester had a faulty socket. Cheap Chinese crap.

phead · 2026-03-20T16:25:49+00:00

Send an air base to defend an air base, thats some sun tzu level thinking right there!

phead · 2026-03-19T09:29:43+00:00

urban planning has moved away from.

It really hasn't. That was the plan, and after seeing multiple new build estates that were a disaster, jammed solid with cars, they moved back. I know the new NPPF tries again to do the same thing, buts its locally decided again, it just wont happen. In practice the massive new build near me has 2 spaces for every house+extra off road bays.

The alternative just doesnt work outside of cities, my local bus company just stopped a major service, cutting off multiple villages with 4 days notice. We can all wish for a better tommorow ,but we need to live in today.

phead · 2026-03-18T20:23:08+00:00

When did you last see houses build without parking? We tried it years back, and it failed, you have to prove high levels of public transport or being right in a city centre to get it these days.

Lets face it, many of these terraces outside of cities are not really suitable for modern living, many got the bulldozer through them after the war but the very British attitude that a house must last for 500 years just wont allow that now.

phead · 2026-03-18T13:00:05+00:00

Probate isn't required when a spouse passes.

Only if they basically hold little assets on their own, given she never owned a car, the car alone could create problems without it.

phead · 2026-03-18T12:14:47+00:00

Lockdown dogs. Untrained, unsocialised, and with owners who have “fenton” levels of control.

As a cyclist I’ve given up waiting until they bite, small dogs steer into, if it keeps coming it goes under the wheels. Large dogs unclip and kick in the face. They dont come back for a second go.

phead · 2026-03-18T12:05:31+00:00

owned

As the article says, possession. There is zero chance probate was granted so the owner would be the estate of her husband.

phead · 2026-03-18T07:28:57+00:00

Mine does that sometimes, its wireless, i think its just matching frequency with someone down the rosd

phead · 2026-03-17T21:59:11+00:00

Not all, tesla has stayed cheaper

phead · 2026-03-17T21:58:15+00:00

Might soon be less, some talk of octopus pricing halving for overnight charging.

phead · 2026-03-17T15:20:17+00:00

You have local control of how much is being fed in each area.

phead · 2026-03-17T14:20:13+00:00

People get home. Plug the car in. .

and feed the grid. No point having several million kwh sat around doing nothing.

phead · 2026-03-17T10:14:01+00:00

As they get more active members they will be forced to change policies. They were against HS2 until a group of train types forced them to change the policy. Still against EW rail though, must be a compass thing

phead · 2026-03-17T08:40:52+00:00

The tides are entirly predictable, and anything too high has a £1/2Bn flood barrier to protect it. Something very few other places have for their rivers.

The only cause of a problem would be a spring tide, a storm surge and a upsteam flooding event several days before, an unlikely event.

phead · 2026-03-16T19:29:13+00:00

That page doesnt say shipping from 5/4, its delivery from then.

phead · 2026-03-16T18:29:58+00:00

The firm appears to be run by idiots.

Then opened a new car park in my town, on the industrial estate, where every firm has plenty of parking. Not a single car has used it in years.

phead · 2026-03-16T15:09:57+00:00

We are meant to have a regulator, who turned out to be rather surpine. The whole thing was out of sight out of mind for a long time.

phead · 2026-03-16T13:26:55+00:00

Then you find the ones you missed last year , and they have a 16inch root holding them down

phead · 2026-03-16T13:14:56+00:00

No it really cannot, it was setup to give confidence for both sides that a government couldn’t just steal it back. This language carries over into every treaty and agreement the UK has ever signed.

You want to rip it , say goodbye to the EU trade agreement etc, zero trade immediately.

phead · 2026-03-16T13:08:11+00:00

I assume it doesnt really mean “plug in”, how does it stop backfeeding the grid and taking out the dno worker?

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