Alright for some, I guess…..
Parliamentary pensions have always been generous. They can afford to be – their pensions comes directly from the taxpayer whether we like it or not. Not for them the worries about investment returns, downturn in fund performance, or even length of service in the fund. Nope, the pension enjoyed by the average bit of lobby fodder is not only generous, it’s protected, and all you have to do to get it is be elected, serve a term in the House of Conivers, and then retire.
For the rest of us mortals, pensions are much more difficult. Since the raid by the Treasury on the income from investment into pension funds – taking almost 8 billion a year out of them – most pension funds are struggling to pay their pension commitments. This is not helped by the poor performance over a number of years of some investments and by the growing number of people forced to take “early retirement” due to poor performance of their companies – all now in the hands of bean counters and lawyers who barely know what the Comapny is called, never mind what it actually makes.
The Government’s response? Make everyone work until they are 70! The Boardroom response? Close the pension fund. Wipe it out and make any new employees take out private insurance cover. Then, of course, you solve another problem which frees up even more money to waste on more Whitehall Wankers doing nothing and even more money to take as expenses and unearned perks for the (dis)Honourable Members. Because you have private pension provision you no longer qualify for any State Benefit or aid as you become aged and infirm and need constant care. You’re rich! Pay for it yourself – can’t allow you to pass on the benefit of your hard earned money, property, or investments to your children, now can we?
The news this week that our Wonderful, Caring, Immortal and Infallible Leader, the Humungous Tony Blair PC, MP, and Barstool will be claiming a Parliamentary Pension – in the event of losing the next election – of almost 180,000 per annum (for the rest of his natural), makes Guido’s blood boil! The thought that this will be added to the money he has already relieved us of – lining his pocket very generously at our expense – and to the earnings – again at our expense through the Legal Aid scam – of his QC and Judge wife, makes it positively obscene.
And before anyone points out that Mrs Thatcher gets it as well on top of her husband’s (the ubiqitous Sir Denis) income – he at least made his money the way the rest of us have to – by working for it and not from Government (ie – taxpayers) contracts, either!
Is Guido the only person recently who has been forced to look at the pittance he will receive as a pension – the reward for a long career in a difficult and often dangerous career – and wondered why he has to contribute almost 40% of his salary to support this thievery while enjoying almost no return for it? Surely not!
Time to call a halt to this scam and make these parasites share our lack of rewards for hard work in the same pension and investment system as the rest of us! I think there will be a rapid retreat on the tax raid on funds – and possibly even a shortage of passengers looking for the gravy-train trough to get their snouts into.
On the other hand – the porcine aviators are on the taxiway – and cleared for take off!
4 commentsWill Boris also wail about the €U “snatch and grab” rules ??
In the D-T, one Boris Johnson complains bitterly about U.S. extradition rules and Blunkett’s “abject surrender” to them, but has he also been fighting tooth and nail against the odious ‘rights of arrest’ promulgated in that horrendous document issued by the poobahs in Brussels? Surely that is far more onerous than what the U.S. has done.
Just asking!
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