I am sorry that I read stories that are deliberately trying to make people anxious.

For example there’s a lot of rumours and even published articles claiming that the government are going to means test state pensions

State pensions are taxed in the usual way if the state pension plus your job related pension or any other pension rise above the personal allowance which is round about 12,000 pound per annum

The state pension will never be taken away from anyone ( unless they move out of Britain)

If if the state pension rises above the personal allowance then the excess will be taxed in the normal manner

To my mind that’s rather low  if that’s all you’re living on

But these newspapers and websites publishing the frightening stories make me very angry because they pretend to be helping people by giving them useful information but in fact it’s all lies or mostly it is

The headline is frightening and then the article when you read it is actually saying the opposite of what they are suggesting to you but how many people will read all of those?

So much misinformation around really it’s not just Donald Trump and his fellows

Because they want to affect our emotions they want to cause distress and that may possibly in some cases lead to riots or troubles in society.

And that can lead to complete tragedy

A 61-year-old man was put in prison after being involved in the riots in and believe Rotherham and very sadly he has committed suicide after a few months.

And I blame some of the media for these sort of things because a lot of people don’t understand what’s going on and they don’t know what asylum seekers are as opposed to illegal immigrants and this should not be happening.

I suppose I’m over optimistic because people always like to gossip and create rumours but it’s dangerous now because of the spread of the internet and the devices we have

I apologise for the American spelling of some of these words when I use the dictation and maybe I’ll be able to change it if I do a bit of work

It’s already difficult in this country with rising prices still going on etc and why let your blood pressure be raised by fear. Well a lot of people are not literate or numeric enough to be able to understand what’s going on and they rely on some kind of media but now we’re told the BBC is very left wing so that poly deters some people

Let’s face it some people enjoy being frightened and creating trouble and frightening other people and I suppose it’s always been so and it’s always will be unless we try to stop it.