@BBCPolitics I expect the people who represent us to be observant, curious, and fully on top of their game. Politics is too important for complacency. We deserve leaders who pay attention, ask questions, and stay sharp.
@ArchRose90 I expect the people who represent us to be observant, curious, and fully on top of their game. Politics is too important for complacency. We deserve leaders who pay attention, ask questions, and stay sharp.
@MarcherReborn They had every chance to speak up, and they chose not to. As EU members with full representation in Brussels, they were perfectly positioned to raise concerns long before this. It was obvious their approach would create problems, and they proceeded anyway.
Latest, Starmer has dug up, Gordon Brown. OMG.
The UK pension system was once the envy of the world, but former Chancellor Gordon Brown slaughtered it shortly after New Labour took power in 1997.
Brown launched an instant stealth tax raid on our workplace pensions by axing a valuable dividend tax credit that made them affordable for employers.
In doing so, he triggered the collapse of millions of gold-plated final salary company pension schemes. Nearly all are now closed to new members, leaving tens of millions of workers at the mercy of volatile stock markets for their retirement wealth.
Not all of them, though. Public sector workers still get final salary pensions as standard, with taxpayers footing the bill.
And so do MPs, naturally.
MPs build up pension rights worth £16,500 a year after just 10 years in the job. It would take the average private sector worker a staggering 49 years to accrue the same retirement income.
Funnily enough, Brown didn’t touch those. Nor will Starmer.
The hypocrisy is outrageous and a sign of things to come now Labour is in power.