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[Charlie Hannah]

Thank you Doc much appreiciated!

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John notice in the Tele this morning it wont effect the pollies.There nose will be deeper in the trogh.They wont have to work till there 70 Joe Hokey will finnish with a pension of 200,000 a yearand ten business class return trips They can have it as soon as they leave politics and get another job the next day.As usual the worker takes the brunt of it and big buissiness goes on as before paying very little taxes.

[happy daze john in oz]

To all our UK members, welcome to the real world!! We here in Oz are about to go through similar problems with the age of retirement to rise to 70 in 21 years time. Who is to blame for all of this, the previous Labor gov who spent far more than they ever collected, this is a global Labor problem not just UK and Oz, and the doctors and scientists who are finding ways of keeping us alive for longer. The latest is that by the end of this century, only 86 years away, the average life expectancy will be 100. Who is going to pay the pensions then one may well ask?

[Captain Kong]

Who is going to pay the pensions then one may well ask? HD J.
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iI have noticed on the TV some Polly saying that it is the young who have to pay for the old peoples Pensions.
No One pays for my Pension.!!! I paid for it.

I payed for 50 Years NI and for 64 years still paying Tax on my Pension. So will the said Polly, ANDY BURNHAM, a well known bum of a Polly, let me know WHO is paying for my Pension.?
Cheers
Brian.

[Keith Tindell]

People are sniping at local goverment pensions, which i have , i paid 11.25% of my wages for my pension for 30 years , which was into my county council coffers. This money was siphoned off to pay for other things, such as road repairs , street lighting etc, so it suits the councils to allow the public to believe they have to increase rates, to cover the shortfall in our pensions, bleddy deceitful, KT

[John Arton]

How is that pension funds can still be raided by various local, national and European bodies?
I thought that after Robert Maxwell raided the pension funds of his newspaper empire before disappearing mystically off the side of his luxury yacht, that legislation had been brought in to ring fence pension funds in order to protect the fund members. So how come that unelected bodies such as the EU together with other Governmental bodies are still able to carry on this practice?
Is there a situation where if all the populace refused to vote in any future Council, EU, General Election so that no party was elected, then councils, parliament (EU and UK) would have to be disbanded and all the MP's etc. tossed on the scrap heap whilst a new system of government by the people for the people, as our American friends say, is devised. Though having said that a bit in my local paper today regarding my MP and a straw poll of citizen's saying she is doing a good job but not as good as the previous incumbent, a certain Milliband who absconded to the USA in order to trouser even more millions, makes me wonder if there are any level headed, conscientious and intelligent people around in this country who could come forward to govern us in the way that the silent majority wishes. Perhaps its time to revert to a reign by Monarchy with just a rump Parliament?
rgds
JA, who despairs of all politicians at all levels along with faceless civil servants trousering much moolah for doing nowt.

[vic mcclymont]

Thats nothing when the 42 Magistrates Courts Committees Joined with Crown and County Courts, if you transferred to the Civil Service pension, you lost all your contributions.
Civil servants didn't and still don't contribute to their pensions, we paid 9% of our salaries.
I asked what will happen to the contributions that we Magistrates personnel had paid into our fund,.
Guess what I am still awaiting a reply, I left my pension with County Council, who administered the fund on behalf of the Magistrates Committees.

[Captain Kong]

Some of our Polies would put a South American Polly to shame. I think they are all members of the `Mob`
Brian

[Ron B Manderson]

Britain gives £10,500,000,000 IN OVERSEAS AID. Tho` one Report said £13,500,000,000

Plus Military overseas aid on top of that but no figure so obviously many more millions of Tax Payers money with out our consent.
While we have to have cuts in UK spending.
The roads where I live are just like some Third world country, The waiting list for hospital treatment is getting longer due to lack of resources, I have been waiting for two months to have an hospital apointment, still waiting, in a lot of pain. I have paid Taxes and still am for 64 years and paid National Insurance for 50 years.
so Cameron can give my money to China and other load of international Bums. It is time he was Sectioned under the Mental Health Act.
Brian.

And you wonder why Scotland is to vote in september.
Ron the batcave

[vic mcclymont]

Ron, Fish Face if he gets his way is going to have is own overseas aid budget, which will be quite substantial.
Makes me wonder with all his promises if anyone has taken the time to add up all his planned expenditure.

[Ron Kendall]

On j uly 11th last year, when mp's were voting for a payrise, thechamber was packed with many standing. On te27th of February his year, for a debate on welfare reforms for thesick and disabled, only 3 Tories, and 12 Labour MP's wer in the Commons, wha a diabolical set, says it all really,Jly 11th was a Thursday, did they all have a sick note in?