I remember being in the audience of a Billy Bragg concert back in 1996 or early 97. He was exhorting the crowd to vote Labour & his primary argument was that Blair was promising to bring in PR wh… (View Post)

Not true. Many people of pension age work & they don’t pay NI on their wages: https://www.gov.uk/employee-reaches-state-pension-age If you’re well off & have a nice little consulting sideline… (View Post)

This is the great myth - that people have "paid in" and therefore deserve almost any amount back out again. Surely there are limits, even under this (mistaken) "I paid up, so I should … (View Post)

The difficulty is that each of the "locks" is strongly justified in differing circumstances & pensioners understandably believe that any abandonment is done to stuff them again. Origina… (View Post)

The triple lock means you are protected from the drop in wages that has happened this year as a consequence of Covid-10 (8% or so IIRC), but if the economy recovers next year, then the YoY change in … (View Post)