I think it probably is more to do with being forced through Parliament. But the reality is people live longer and while it sucks having to wait till 67 to retire here if you do not have a good enough retirement fund to take an early break, France are probably pushing things at 60. Potentially a whole lot of people could be receiving pensions for well over 20 years which is fine if the pot is strong, I suspect though the pension funds have never been invested wisely.
State pensions aren't paid from pots or investments, they're paid from general taxation.
Pretty poor retirement if you rely on state pension.
I don't disagree but there always seems to be a notion that people "save" into a state pension for decades. They don't, there is no pot, no investments. They're being paid by current taxpayers.
Spot on.
'Tis the privilege of my days to be paying for your Tena supplies Doc, I hope the young uns will feel as proud when they're paying for mine. Solidarity with the leaky elder statesmen
The retirement age is (was) 62 here, with the change increasing it to 64. However there are other calculations that come in to play - roughly speaking you have to work 42 years qualify for a full state pension.
Like all those teachers having to use foodbanks ?My pension has went up by 11% ( prob to try and keep pensioners onside, devious as feck ) , but I genuinely feel for the strikers who are struggling and can’t get a reasonable pay rise, thanks to the shackling from the tory arseholes
Exactly
aye what bullshit
so do you not believe people were chosing between heating their homes or feeding their kids either ?
teachers ? nope
It cant be right that the cost of living is rising at 10% and you offer working people a 2% rise, while saving your rich pals money at the same time, surely
I never said the SNP
So who is the scottish gov that the teachers were demanding a rise from ?I never said the SNP
I was referring to westminsters handling of strikes in the last 6 months. You’ll find the scottish govt has handled them a tad better, as they usually do with everything including covid
I wouldnt say anyone handled covid well which probably isn't that surprising and as far as i know strikes involving those paid by the gov tend to end with a pay rise ? Anyway lets see how they handle the current implosion cos think we'll have bigger problems in the near future
Hindsight is a wonderful thing, but when it was looking like independence was a possibility, we should have pressed for more devolved powers, probably too late now
That kind of thing really pisses me off
There really needs to be a rule where they have to vote, abstaining shouldnt be an option.
In this instance the motion lost by 9 votes. The abstaining party has 15 seats (although I haven't seen the breakdown yet).
Seems a weird thing to use special powers to push through, what's the urgency? Just to balance finances or is there more to it than that?
Talk of reforming the retirement age and conditions has been ongoing for years. It was on Macron's to-do list when covid struck so it was obviously put on the back burner.
I believe thats a deal for the signalmen, maintenance workers, they are still in disput with the railway companies regarding drivers/ ticket/ platform staff.
Good luck with retirement at 60. When these original laws were passed the average age was probably about 55 for most manual workers like miners, engineers etc. Nowadays plenty people are living well into their 80's and with falling birthrates and the take over of machines, where is the taxes coming from to pay these taxes if people don't have private pensions?
The retirement at 60 is just Marine Le Pen promising the world in an effort to be elected.
Fuck that , i got Shell diesel for under £1.60 a litre today the cheapest ive had in ages
Last week I went to a garage in Kelso and it was about 153 9 for deisel..about 10p cheaper than Edinburgh