Chameleon Magazine

 🚌👴🏼💥Here we go again — another round of pensioner-bashing dressed up as fiscal responsibility. This time, the target is London’s over-60s enjoying free travel — one of the only perks they get after decades of coughing up taxes, raising families, and keeping this country glued together with bingo, bus passes, and borderline sainthood. 🙄

🎩 The Audacity of the Over-Privileged Whingers

You know who’s shouting about cutting this lifeline? It’s not Kev from Croydon juggling three zero-hours contracts. It’s the “Think Tank Twats” — the same crew who expensed a latte, wrote a blog about grit, and now want Maureen, 68, to pay £3.50 to get to her GP because “public money should be spent more efficiently.”

Efficiently? You mean like MPs’ expenses? Or HS2 to nowhere? Or heating half-empty government buildings so a civil servant can ghost you in person?

Let’s be real. We’re talking about people who:

• Paid national insurance before “NI” was trendy
• Got a “state pension” that barely covers the heating bill
• Watched house prices balloon while their savings shrank
• And now need a bus ride to pick up discounted cabbage

But sure — let’s start swinging the budget axe at Doris’s weekly trip to Lidl, because god forbid we touch a corporate tax loophole. 🔪

This isn’t about budgets — it’s about priorities. And if your instinct is to take away free public transport from old people, maybe you need a personality audit, not an economic one.

🔥 Challenges 🔥

Why do we always punch down? Why are pensioners framed as a financial burden, while tax-dodging billionaires are “job creators”? And where do these London critics think they’ll be in 30 years — teleporting to the chemist?