Quote Originally Posted by mickd1961 View Post
I’ve worked for 45 years and never had a single day of not being employed.

When I started work I was on £18.60 for a 40 hour week in 1978, that’s less than 50p an hour.

£2.60 of that wage went in National Insurance payment leaving me with just £16.

Governments waste multi billions of OUR money, not their money, OUR money.

I’m sick of the media and the wealthy Left Wing “luvies” constantly b itching about this sort of stuff.

We were promised this when we started work, it was a contract between the state and each worker that contributed……end of.

If any individual so wishes, they can divert their pension or any other handouts to charity, it’s within each individual’s gift to make this decision.

People are idiots for doing the hard yards moaning to make it easier for governments to reduce or eradicate the State Pension.


Totally agree! Totally unfair though many collected their state pensions at 65 whilst it's now 68 and for sure will be over 70 sooner rather than later! If an individual has over X in assets plus a nice private pension do they really need a state pension too? Lottery winner who won millions still collects his pension FFS! To get more money in the pot - use a percentage of annual income for fines as some countries do with no maximum! A percentage fine will still hurt someone on ten grand a year more than some on lets say 200K plus! Only fair!