Showing posts with label pensions. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pensions. Show all posts
Sunday, 28 February 2016

Too old to rock and roll? Forget it! Welcome to 21st century ageing.

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The so-called WASPI campaign for women affected by the change in their retirement age from 60 to 66 has been a feature of news and comme...
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Monday, 15 February 2016

Banning political campaigns with public funds - it's because it's not your money

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**** The government has told public bodies that they can't use procurement as a tool of political campaigning. There has been the predic...
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Wednesday, 15 August 2012

In which Liberal Democrats channel the spirit of Robert Maxwell...

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**** Robert Maxwell , former Labour MP and rapacious capitalist famously robbed the pension funds of his employees at the Daily Mirror and...
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Monday, 19 March 2012

Understanding trade unions...a thought about pensions

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**** To what extent this applies in the UK, I'm not sure but : ...labor overhaul is something of a make-or-break moment for Italian ...
Wednesday, 25 January 2012

In which I agree with Cllr Greenwood...

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**** The nannying fussbuckets have been badgering at the West Yorkshire Pension Fund: Health campaigners have criticised West Yorkshir...
Wednesday, 2 November 2011

Reasons why you shouldn't support the Liberal Democrats No. 436,738

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**** Because they're just tax and spend social democrats: Proposals to impose tax on lump sums withdrawn from their pension pots by...
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Friday, 16 September 2011

Because there isn't a good enough return maybe?

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**** The Communities and Local Government Select Committee (prop. Clive Betts MP) are asking why large pension funds aren't investing ...
Friday, 5 August 2011

A question - does this view reflect the age profile?

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**** From a survey : A survey of 1,000 employees working in public sector organisations found they were “desperately” holding onto the...
Wednesday, 6 July 2011

Tell me again about those strikes?

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**** The latest figures confirm the public-private sector pay gap: Information released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) yes...
Monday, 13 June 2011

You're all right, Ian!

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Dave Prentiss, the highly-paid leader of Unison is leading the charge : 'It will not be one day of action. We know that won’t change ...
Saturday, 9 April 2011

Campaign Diary: Day Five - gardening and e-mails

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I know, it's Saturday and the sun is shining - should be out there voter bothering! But we took the day off to do so gardening (see resu...
Thursday, 10 March 2011

What's wrong with a sixty-year-old copper?

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Lord Hutton has pronounced and, as I'm sure we could have predicted, the public sector unions are sharpening their pitchforks and light...
Thursday, 4 November 2010

Go on BBC News - go on strike. We don't give a fig, you know.

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It’s hard to be sympathetic with very well paid BBC journalists who may (or may not depending on a revaluation and the impact of indexing ch...
Tuesday, 28 September 2010

"I can't dig the garden like I used to..." - some thoughts on getting older.

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I thought that, for a change, I’d write about getting old. And how our attitude to age – and the process of getting older – changes and ev...