Quote Originally Posted by Geoff Parkstone View Post
Slightly off topic but there is an online petition going to be "debated" to reduce the pensionable age to 60 for all whilst increasing the state pension to over £400 a week. This is not just or WASPIs either.
Clearly there are enough utterly delusional people out there to support this, and these people get to vote....

So let's increase tax or NI by 5% to pay for this one.

Although personally it would benefit me, it's total madness and makes the train drivers demand look modest!
And yet as recently as 2008 the expectation was that (ironically) women could have that expectation and men could reasonably expect to retire at 65.

I’ll bow, as ever, to your greater financial knowledge however, and I honestly don’t mean this unpleasantly...but at approaching 69 and still working you are not typical for the following reasons.
1. You are running your own business and to that extent...calling the shots.
2. Your work is largely cerebral and requires little in terms of physical effort.
3. I suspect those such as accountants (and politicians) have either never known or (in your case given your agricultural upbringing) forgotten the demands of more physically demanding employment and yes...I include nurses, paramedics, the police, teachers and care home staff in that.

As I say...I don’t mean this nastily and I do appreciate your greater knowledge relating to the nation’s finances...however I don’t want to see a return to people working till they drop or having, at best, two or three years of retirement.