#deatgh

[eaglesnick]

Second-rate Britain 6

The UK’s official retirement age is one of the highest in the world. Despite having  the fifth largest economy on the planet, Britons are expected to work long into old age before they can draw on their state pension. I gave three reasons yesterday why the government had postponed its plans to raise the pension age from 66 to 68.

“One is fear of social unrest as seen in France. Second, there is an election in less than two years time and raising the pension age is a vote-loser. Third, and perhaps most worrying of all, is that life- expectancy in the UK is falling."

Yesterday I was foolishly optimistic that this delay would be for several years but today it was announced:

“The Government plans to have a further review within two years of the next Parliament to reconsider plans for the state pension age to rise to 68.”  (Express and Star: 30/03/23)

So, we might yet see a retirement age of 68 before the end of the decade.

But this is not the main point of today’s observations. A very good reason for NOT raising the pension age is that in the UK life expectancy is now falling, not rising.

“For the first time in 100 years, Britons are dying earlier. The UK now has the worst health trends in western Europe – and doctors and experts believe that the impact of austerity is a major factor.”  Guardian 23/06/19.

Tory government’s have repeatedly deprived public services of adequate funding, which in turn has led to a decline in the quality of these services – from worsening housing conditions to NHS staff shortages. The deliberate running down of the NHS has led to massive waiting lists and many patients have died before they can be treated. The last decade has quite literally seen Tory government policies killing people. And before anyone blames Covid for increased waiting lists (which it did), the date of the quote above is June 2019, six months BEFORE Covid struck.

Needless to say, the fall in life expectancy disproportionately affects the poor, which is maybe why Tory governments seem not to care. It is no coincidence that it was the rich who received tax breaks on their pensions in the last budget while the rest of us will soon be expected to work until we are 68. While the rich can squirrel away a bigger pension pot much earlier than before, we will have to labour until we are nearly into our seventies.

Government’s figures show that 

“…females born into the poorest areas are the worst affected. Between 2018 and 2020, healthy life expectancy at birth in the most deprived areas was 19.3 years less than in the least deprived areas between 2018 and 2020. For males, it was 18.6 years fewer.” (Nursing in Practice: 27/03/22)

Life expectancy In the UK only began to fall after 2010, the year the first Tory government came to power after the financial crash of 2008. There then followed a decade of austerity measures and cuts to public services. During this time:

“… while life expectancy rose in most places during the first decade of the millennium, from 2010 it began to decline in some places… life expectancy fell in some urban parts of Leeds, Newcastle, Manchester, Liverpool and Blackpool where life expectancy was below 70 for men and 75 for women… there was a 20-year gap in life expectancy between a woman living in Camden (95.4 years) versus a woman living in one area of Leeds (74.7 years). And for men, there was a 27-year gap in life expectancy between areas in Kensington and Chelsea (95.3 years) and parts of Blackpool (68.3 years)”  (BBC News: 13/10/21)

The next time the unelected multi-millionaire Sunak tells us he is putting our “needs before politics”, we might want to insist he puts our lives above the economic interests of his already rich friends.

[fluffyhellspawn]

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hhhheeeyyyyy yyaaallll posts might be a bit stagnant for a bit. been deathly sick the past few days and theres nothing left on my Q to post ! might be a while for some actual new content instead of me scavenging through my old files to see what i have and havent posted. in the meanwhile i'll probably respond to a few asks ive gotten :3

[citrusitonit]

oohh i found a balck notebuysg on the ground

[greencorncube]

damn the school lunch really hates my guts

[existential-dread-in-the-am]

Hiking update 1: cold cold COLD morning. Frost on the ground. I am going to fucking freeze to deatgh

[poodlemajima]

majima goro i l ove tou so much…..so cute wnd funny…………..so good and cute……………[watchinf him beat someone to deatgh] such a good boy………….i lvoe you so much……. feeds him a cup noodle feeds him a cup noodle

[nagito-komaeda428]

Feline deatgh

It feel likae deah

Alright. I’ll get you to Mikan. Hang in there.

[puppybeetle]

im about to type the gayest thing possible rn and its so embarassing i have to put it under a read more </3

actuall y growiling and barking rn im tihnking abt deatgh ., . siting on my lap and kising him v ..,. .. AUGHH LIKE I WANNA HOLD HIM ITS SO CUTESIE TO ME </3</3 <//33333 bhold its litle hand and GRRR GRRRRRR GODDD IM SO GAY I WANNA HOLD DEATH BY ITS WAIST AND KISS IT iwugh ,, i need to be stopped so badlky i srs need death to be real so i can kiss him everyday and make it feel so so lobved ,,, , anyway imma go draw him as a soparklecat now ,,,,,,

[michoislost]

deatgh

Whats so funny

[citrusitonit]

deatgh by snoosnoo btw

[finsterhund]

sorry incoherant. repost from twitter. Can’t barely writwe things right now.

1. Cazza threw up her supper today.

2. got call from “blood detective” (it’s them) much earlier than the estimate.

I got a call from them it's lymphoma. We have to go on Friday to get more samples and they won't start the chemo yet. They straight up reccomended the drug that only takes away the swelling and would still have her die in a month im bnot okay

I'm fighting this until the very end in case it wasn't completely fucking obvious. Not only that but the shitty anti inflammatory thing makes dogs LESS RECEPTIVE to chemo. So absolutely the fuck not. It's the way out if you don't want them to get chemo. That is NOT an option

I'm a psychotic mess right now but he said there's specialists in vancouver (8 hours away) and the total cost of chemo is going to be $5000 dollars but I'm still fucking fighting this. There's no way in hell I won't.

for reference they brought op cost effective “treatment” first but I want actual treatment. 

Have an appointment to get more samples on Friday.

Can’t fucking do anything.

If she goesn’t get chemo she dies in a month

[gorogorofacts2]

OHHHHYOURETRYIMNGGG TO BE LIKGE MEEEE HAHAAHHAHAHAHAHAABA KINNIE

ooooooIM DEATGH !!!!! TGHEEND OF WORLDSSS. END OF FASHIOM WITGH MY CRIM GE CHUUNI MASKGGKK OOUHVGGVVGGHHH

Yachiyo itgs ok to be a litl,e emo and gay. u domnt have to pretemnd u already area litle silly amnd emo. if uranother alternateyachiroyoacgh then ur universe is cringe. CRINGE mask universewghere they all wear CRINBGE masks. WGHAT ELSE DO THEYDO? WEAR CROCS WITH SOCKS??? TGHE FUZZY LIGHTING MCQEUEEN CROCS?

@gorogorofacts2

You called…?

[myuheru-archive]

WAHH IM SO SAD the fact that their nen beast abilities were connected to each other and wouldn’t work with that mutual bond and kachos.....kacho

[brunnetessimp]

BTW you too don't believe that der hadn't make this out there in the cave right

Im not the only one who just doesn't consider her being dead because of the ice cubes

if she's dead her deatgh just be great and epic not like that

[euforiya]

he’s a better slut than i am

HE––

[henry-and-the-seven-lords]

Well, "Dancing with the birds" doesn't have deatgh, just some fancy birds dancing

Oooh, I could get behind that.

I like fancy dancing birbs