Once again the media world obsesses over pensions without so much as a word about how we got into this mess in the first place. In fact I’ve just heard a BBC financial correspondent make the point that “there’s no central pot for pensions…” Okay, I presume this gentleman has forgotten all that national insurance he pays… you know, the one that went up recently? Collective media amnesia seems to give legs to the theory that national insurance was always meant as general taxation. It wasn’t. As usual your money has been stolen by the state and now the state seems so blasé as to be complicit in the unilateral decision of big business to pilfer their own pension schemes.
It’s funny how they never seem to have a commission or endless reports over whether we can afford to kill Arabs. That, obviously would be distasteful, but when it comes to the wealth and health of our elderly then their future is open to negotiation. Wake up people – the elderly means you. Not today, maybe not even tomorrow… but barring accidents, one day, elderly is you.
We are already being primed for a renewal of Trident, our so-called independent nuclear deterrent. By the way – for independent read US controlled.
Such priming indicates nothing so much as a preparation for a discussion free announcement. They will spend the coming period telling us that they haven’t made their minds up until it all happens anyway.
How many pensions might that all pay for?
We all have to scrimp and save, plead and beg for the little that’s ours while the profligacy of the ruling class is truly outstanding. This, by the way, isn’t a class issue!! The perfect example came with the arrest of a group of people (all subsequently released – bail pending) in London following the tragic shooting of a WPC last week. The entire motorway was taken up with a positive fleet of vans, cars and motor cycles all for the transport of a handful of murder suspects. The decision to afford these people such pomp was no more and no less than a display of police machismo designed not for practical purposes but simply for show. How much waste there?
It’s doubtful if Osama Bin Laden would be afforded such a police presence.
Anyway, thanks for looking and I hope to be back again soon.
