IanB2

What earnings growth we were enjoying, prior to the GFC! (View Post)

Yes, but you would then have a two tier state pension scheme, and either there would be a widening cliff edge effect between the two, with bizarre incentives for someone about to reach £35k, or you’d… (View Post)

In a couple of years or so, the triple lock will take the state pension up to the level of the basic tax allowance, the latter being frozen (with the freeze hotly expected to be extended). At that po… (View Post)

As kjh says, the blocking originates from officials, who are prepared to feed their ministers selective, or unreasonably definitive, advice, to shore up their own position, per Yes Minister. The test… (View Post)

Doesn't that one post on here already? From all over the world (View Post)