You go to work for 40 years (I'm currently at 42).
You’re forced into auto‑enrolment. You play by the rules, you save into a pension on the promise it’s yours.
Then Labour strolls in, waves through a law that lets ministers tell your scheme where to gamble those savings – not for your benefit, but to prop up their economic “strategy” and vanity infrastructure schemes that the market won’t fund.
This isn’t prudence. It isn’t “modernisation”. It is a straightforward transfer of control from the saver to the state.
Hands off our pensions. Share this before they pretend nobody noticed.
@dshensmith@QcWynter Never mind the myriad of professional qualifications which were easily verifiable and undoubtedly more relevant that my GCSE Geography exam which had sat idly by these last few decades!
@dshensmith@QcWynter After some 25 years work experience in the big bad world a new employer was absolutely insistent that I provide official proof of my (frankly barely adequate)GCSE grades from the mid nineties.
For which during the interview process they had not asked about the subjects or grades!
@DJSnM Going there again on Wednesday, being that close to Atlantis is special.
As is spending some time downstairs with the Challenger and Columbia memorials.
Hey @TravelexUK how come I can click and collect currency from every airport in the UK apart from Heathrow?
You aren't trying to do the dirty on me and rip me off with an airport rate when I get there are you? 🤔