It is disappointing that government failed to engage in reasonable talks and discuss their proposed imposed changes to public sector pensions. The changes that were announced in advance of the study they had commissioned to evaluate those pensions.
The lack of proper negotiation led to the action that was taken by public sector workers today.
I [...]
Archive for November, 2011
Filed under Anecdotes
Dawn is Breaking
18 Comments CherryPie on Nov 30th 2011
Filed under This & That
Fair Pensions for All – Part Five
Conclusion: fair pensions for all
Nearly one in five of us , living in the UK, is over the state retirement age. A fair pension for all is affordable in the sixth largest economy in the world, if we choose it to be.
A pension is income deferred. Whether it is through national insurance of contributions to [...]
6 Comments CherryPie on Nov 30th 2011
Filed under Holidays, York 2011
Signs of the Times…
The small sign on the right in the second picture says:
L&NW AND L&V
RAILWAYS
ANY PERSON FOUND
TAMPERING WITH
THESE BELLS WILL
BE PROSECUTED
BY ORDER
6 Comments CherryPie on Nov 29th 2011
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Fair Pensions for All – Part Four
The state pension: below the poverty line
UK pensioner poverty is among the worst in Europe – only Cyprus, Latvia and Estonia abandon their pensioners to a greater degree. France spends over twice as much on pensions as the UK, Germany two-thirds more.
It is simply not true to say that the UK cannot afford [...]
Comments Off CherryPie on Nov 29th 2011
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Fair Pensions for All – Part Three
The scandal of private sector pensions
The collapse of private sector pensions is one of the greatest outrages of our time. Just over a decade ago nearly half of all private sector workers were in a workplace pension scheme; today it is only a third. The cost of that decline will be borne by the taxpayer [...]
2 Comments CherryPie on Nov 28th 2011
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Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week
In our universe we are tuned into the frequency that corresponds to physical reality. But there are an infinite number of parallel realities coexisting with us in the same room, although we cannot tune into them.
Steven Weinberg (B 1933)
10 Comments CherryPie on Nov 27th 2011
