My spoof article of six months ago:
Work unpaid or lose all your state pension for three years - this is the new message from the government to the long-term retired. Employment minister Chris Grayling said he is convinced a new 'work for pension' scheme would help to reduce Britain's £100 billion pensions bill.
From the BBC today:
Retired people should be encouraged to do community work such as caring for the "very old" or face losing some of their pension, a peer has suggested.
Lord Bichard, a former benefits chief, said "imaginative" ideas were needed to meet the cost of an ageing society. And although such a move might be controversial, it would stop older people being a "burden on the state".
The correct answer to this is to simply not exempt certain special interest groups from Land Value Tax and to pay them a fair whack in Citizen's Pension, continue to give them 'free' NHS treatment and so on, but hey.
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2 hours ago
1 comments:
He must read your blog.
It's dangerous to joke about such things: I will always remember Ben Elton lambasting the Dept of Education as a department with nothing to do (it was all done by the LEAs). "There isn't even a National Curriculum" he jeered. Shortly afterwards, what did we get? A National Curriculum.
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