OK, let me wind up for a bit....
Right. Now then, how does anyone think they can retire at a young age if there aren't going to be lots of even younger people working to keep them? The big pension thing is a scam, not far different from a pyramid scheme and working on exactly the same lines.
One of the really big problems, which no government has had the guts to face for the last forty years, are Civil Service pensions, which cost the rest of us £2,000,000,000 every year and rising. In other words £100 from each of us who have a job, every year. (and that was the figure for 1992 - it's shot up since then)
And this is distributed among 250,000 pensioners who are getting an average of £8,000 a year out of our pockets. Compare that with the state pension of £4,539, which we'll get if we're lucky!
Me, I'm assuming I'll go on working till I drop, that being more fun than playing bowls in the rain with the other old gits and spending the afteroon drying out in th public library.
