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Therein lies the issue really. You rightly state that there are pensioners in poverty. I remember some of the heartbreaking stories of pensioners on buses to keep warm in the fuel crisis and the like. On the flip side, there are also pensioners on index linked final salary pensions that nobody...

Well..... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keeping_Up_Appearances

Just on the last point. There is absolutely no guesswork required. We have an ageing population, pensions timebomb (state pension will resemble a Ponzi scheme in its current form) and a labour gap that is only getting worse. Last presentation I saw was a shortage of 3 million now (rough numbers...

Where I live, we are knocking down housing to build a 3rd train line to London that won't be used or the lads will no doubt be on strike again. Marvelous.

It's not even a debate that the next generations are getting a worse deal. Tuition fees, grants, prescription fees, house prices, final salary pensions, NHS dentists. Poor sods will probably never retire. The population is ageing and its a massive problem. I've no malice against anyone that was...