@TheNewsAgents I was talking to a local counsellor at my pub landlord’s slightly boozy 60th birthday & suggested that as well as allowing 16/17 year olds, we cap the voting age at 80. Should this demographic be voting on the future of our young people? Their record is poor…
@goldstone_tony@NHSBSA@drlukeevans Tony, isn’t it time that the consultant body actually took a stand against this ongoing pensions fiasco? It is fundamentally unjust, utterly distracting and holding back productivity.
@YouGov@campbellclaret I know what we need to do to enable the economy to grow. Why doesn’t @RachelReevesMP ? Expanding Heathrow isn’t it. That is almost as insane an idea as Brexit.
@wesstreeting If you want consultants to do even more work, then please sort out this outrageous pension tax trap. I have received a massive pension tax bill meaning I am working for free for 3 months. Why would I do extra work? It is demoralising.
@goldstone_tony We are being let down by HM Treasury & HMG by having to take so much time & effort try and mitigate massive pension tax bills when we have no control over pension input. I cannot believe we are putting up with this. It is state sponsored theft. @wesstreeting@RachelReevesMP
@ProfDerek666 I’m sorry but you have totally missed the point. The work is there. So much work. So much illness. There hasn’t been the investment needed to provide the facilities to care for all there’s patients. You’d be very welcome to come and see for yourself.
@goldstone_tony@wesstreeting Same. No more extra lists in my own time. My ‘spare time’ is now taken up trying yo work out what on earth the brown envelope of crazy numbers means. The complexity & opacity of this all must be intentional. Looking at early partial retirement
@goldstone_tony Tony, it strikes me that many of us are still going to have a massive problem with AA related tax charges? Problem not solved. Can’t do extra work. @wesstreeting needs to look at it and sort it properly.
@goldstone_tony@nhs_pensions I find these pension related problems very onerous and worrying. I never used to have to worry about it, but now it feels like I need to commit significant time to something I really struggle to understand. Collaeagues are talking of early retirement again.
@goldstone_tony@nhs_pensions Tony, do you publish your tweets on any other platform? I have been off Twitter (X) for the last 3 weeks and feel so much better that I’m going to delete my account as it a pretty unpleasant environment now. I still want to follow your posts though. Thanks Tim
@reachimyq Thanks Imran, that’s really kind of you to say. I think most of us are finding it a real struggle at the moment on a daily basis. Hope you’re well.