The Rise Of Pensioner Persecution
- KJM Today
- Jun 6
- 4 min read
Updated: Jun 6
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June 6, 2025.
June 6 is a rather important date in the history of the United Kingdom of Great Britain.
It is of course, the anniversary of D-Day.
Most of those who took part have passed on to the next world now, it was after all 81 years ago. There are no Battle of Britain pilots left; no survivors of Dunkirk.
Yet today's younger people know little or nothing of the events that paved the way for the comforts they enjoy today.
And they know nothing, at all, of the way in which the children and grandchildren of those lost soldiers, sailors and airmen worked all day, every day, to gain the homes they subsequently had, their hard graft, their saving diligently to be able to afford a mortgage.
All they know is the garbage spouted by people who seem to be in their 30s and 40s about pensioners who allegedly are all millionaires, living lives of luxury, preventing them from buying their own homes by snapping up all the houses. All this is of course, entirely mythical and is the politics of envy, propagated by those on the left.
The axing of winter fuel payments along with others acts by the current government, fuel what is rapidly becoming an entrenched hatred of the old.
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Fomenting Hate
The reason why I do my restrained, online version of someone completely losing it when I encounter the pensioner / boomer hate which seems increasingly prevalent in the media these days is this:
When someone says "pensioner", I don't think of the caricature in the Telegraph of a selfish, greedy 70 year old couple in a leafy Surrey suburb who own two cars, two houses, holiday abroad several times a year, voted Remain for the cheap Polish builders and charming Estonian baristas and who think lockdown was "absolutely wonderful".
I think of my two elderly neighbours and their increasing struggles with life in their 80s. Their falls in the garden and on the stairs. The distraction burglary one suffered in which her engagement and wedding rings were stolen. Their struggles to deal with technology as the world turns digital. Their isolation from their families during COVID. Their increasing lack of mobility. Their difficulties dealing with tradespeople to keep their houses maintained. The loss, in their 80s, of their spouses of 50+ years.
Their later lives consisting mainly of a seemingly never-ending series of funerals as all of their nearby friends died. I also think of the hours they continued to give as volunteers at the church, the Rotary Club, the Scouts and the British Legion, well into their late 70s. Their love of their children and grandchildren, and of our children. Their determination to "keep calm and carry on". Their determination to keep their homes and gardens and neighbourhood tidy and spotless.
They bought their homes when they were built in 1972. They worked hard and paid off their mortgages before they retired. They chose to remain in the family home because of all the friends and family who lived nearby and because, after 50 years, their entire life was connected with their home town. Moving elsewhere to "downsize" was inconceivable in their early days of retirement, and impossible later, as they became more frail.
Yes, that home rose in paper "value" enormously in the intervening years, thanks to government policies they never wanted or asked for, but that was of no interest to them. Its value was as a home, a place to feel safe and keep their treasured possessions. Determined to live an independent life, they remained there almost to the very end. Having worked and saved hard, they no doubt had private pensions in addition to the state pension. They were, in income terms, probably comfortably off.
But life was not a bed of roses, as it is not for most elderly people. So when I see politicians, and journalists foment hatred of the elderly with their lazy tropes about "greedy, selfish boomers" and "millionaire pensioners", it makes me really angry. Because for me, it's personal. They're talking about real people, like my neighbours.
Exemplary, morally upright, selfless, generous, warm-hearted citizens. The people fomenting this pensioner hate don't seem to realise that one day, they too, will be elderly, incontinent, falling in the bathroom, pressing the emergency button on their lanyard, and wondering if anyone will come to their aid.
If hatred of the elderly becomes the norm, they may come to regret their foolish, childish, envious, short-sighted words.
Alan
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Everybody will get old
The recent sentencing of two teenagers for killing an 80-year-old, apparently simply for being 'old,' is a symptom of how British society has decayed over what is now a period of many years.
I wrote of it in my book, Comments of a Common Man Edition 3, in September 2019.
I wrote of it again on KJM Today, here:
I wrote, "we don't want the old around," and wrote also (as well as on social media - several times) and with specific reference to the critics of older people, most of whom tend to be of younger ages:
"One day you will wake up and look in the bathroom mirror to see a grey hair when there was none the day before; barring any catastrophic intervention (including but not limited to Covid-19), no matter how cool, young and funky you are now, one day…you…will be old.'
They will. Like it or not, they will.
Unless of course, Logan's Run, as referred to in my article above, has taken root and everybody is state-euthanised by 30. Except for the global parasites, including our Communist Prime Minister.
Kevan James
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My father & older brother fought for this country & I hold the thought that I may not have been here had it not been for their courage & the courage of so many more! Bless them ALL. The least they deserve is total RESPECT!
Lyn
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