General Discussion
What I am saying about magic money trees is that Boris Johnson cannot seemingly find one to compensate the WASPI women. Why not?
"For every extra pound in Tory spending, Labour are promising £28" Projected additional spending: Conservative - £2.9bn Lib Dems - £48.2bn Labour - £82.9bn (not including the waspi pledge) https://news.sky.com/story/general-election-for-every-extra-pound-in-tory-spending-labour-are-promising-an-extra-28-11869522 What were you saying about magic money trees?
There are some 6,700 women born in the 1950s and living in the constituency of Newton Abbot affected by the State Pension Age changes. (source: Commons Briefing Papers CBP-7405)
Magic Money trees?! Boris Johnson has seemingly found them for so many other things!
Labour's pledge to reimburse the women affected by the pension change has been costed at £58 billion, but was not budgeted for in their manifesto. "Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell confirmed that the £58billion price tag for the policy did not appear in Labour’s "fully costed" election manifesto ." ...
The Conservative Party I cannot find any mention of the WASPI cause in the Conservative Manifesto. However, an indication of the Conservative Party’s attitude might be gleaned from the response given by the Prime Minister to a question posed to him concerning this matter on the BBC’s General Election Question Time that was broadcast last Friday. “I do sympathise deeply with the Waspi ...
On the subject of pensions - I'll post separately about the various parties attitude towards the WASPI cause (that's about how the state pension age for 1950s born women got raised, first in 1995 and then again in 2011, but many women affected were totally unaware as they were never personally told about the changes.) An example: I know a woman whose state pension age (SPA) in 1995 became 63 ...
Pension funds invest their assets in the kind of companies Labour would destroy, so current and future pensioners will be hit. Labour is a disaster for the country in every way.
@ burnside Typical tories then, Profit before People.
It seems that businesses are far more worried about Jeremy Corbyn than Brexit, two power firms and two water companies have recently moved their ownership overseas to combat the threat of being snatched by the Marxists. Two of the UK’s largest power companies have quietly transferred the ownership of their British operations to offshore companies to protect themselves against Labour’s ...