Idrees Kahloon
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 9 Jul
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And basically it is the highest of inflation or wages or a number.
And so basically it's always mechanically going to be higher than inflation.
And France has a similar kind of debate about, you know, every time there's an attempt to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64, there are a lot of protests.
And, you know, one thing that's also happening that's causing these commitments to be made, these commitments that are consuming a greater share of GDP that, you know, if you extrapolate and look at the actuarial tables for 10 years from now, there's no mathematical way that this is possible to happen.
to continue to give.
One reason that governments aren't really changing anything right now is that older voters are a bigger share of the electorate, just mechanically, right?
And so the cost of going against these programs is too high for any politician to pay.
That's true in America with the change that Trump made to the Republican Party.
It's true in the UK, right?
So Nigel Farage
might be willing to be iconoclastic about so many things.
He's not willing to touch the triple lock.
Andy Burnham, the incoming prime minister, we assume is not going to touch the triple lock.
No one wants to touch it, right?
Because it's just a loser.
And that dynamic, that political dynamic is replicated in basically every country that's going through this right now.
I mean, the way of all things is that there will be a transition at some point, right?
So there will be a transition of power to younger people in time.
Like the heir to Donald Trump is going to be someone like J.D.
Vance.
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