More than 70,000 retired public sector workers are on pensions above £50,000 a year, and almost 4,000 enjoy more than £100,000 annually – guaranteed, inflation‑linked, backed by the full power of the state.
These aren’t one‑off anomalies; they are a structural feature of a system designed to shower the top of the public sector with lifetime security, regardless of economic reality for everyone else.
Try telling a delivery driver, a care worker, or a small‑business owner who’s never had a pension that they must subsidise five‑figure and six‑figure state‑sector pensions forever because “the rules say so”.
Try telling a generation locked out of home ownership that they must accept higher taxes and worse services so a political and bureaucratic class can retire early on packages the private sector stopped offering years ago.
Yes, many ordinary public‑sector workers retire on modest pensions.
That truth is routinely weaponised by defenders of the system to obscure the existence of this pension aristocracy at the top – the people whose lavish deals drive the biggest costs, whose interests Labour is most keen to protect, and whose comfort is quietly prioritised over the needs of struggling families staring at rising tax bills and decaying public services.
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I am married with a young daughter, both myself and my husband work.
-We are not entitled to housing benefit, or any other benefit for that matter.
-We do not get free eye tests, free dental care or free prescriptions.
-Our daughter is not entitled to free school meals, or free breakfast clubs, or free wrap around care, no help with her uniform.
-We don’t get council tax discount, or any other discount.
-We don’t get help with our energy bills, or low cost broadband.
-We don’t get help with the cost of going to the cinema, or days out at theme parks.
-My daughter is unable to play outside unsupervised, because you have failed to secure our borders and the streets aren’t safe.
-If I work more hours, I fall into the higher tax band.
Why should someone like me, vote for someone like you? @UKLabour@andyburnham
What are you offering my family?
The stark difference is that when my ancestors arrived in Africa, they brought modern medicine, railways and schools, whereas your people bring rape, crime and welfare abuse.
The only reason your people migrate here is because you’re incapable of running functioning societies. Colonialism is simply used as an excuse to mask your ineptitude.
Africa should either welcome back European rulers or revert to its pre-colonial feudal, tribal state. It is a continent that has received trillions of dollars in aid since the 1960s yet keeps getting worse. No African country will ever be successful, and that’s the cold, hard truth.
As a Chester resident of over 20 years, I can confidently say Chester Races haven’t become violent riots.
This busy, mostly peaceful event is being used to normalise police facial scanning & blanket dispersal powers.
If they are a daily normal, your children will know no difference, accepting constant surveillance as part of freedom.