Aangirfan: Haaretz Top News

Thursday, 30 March 2023

At 30 March 2023 at 06:59 , Anonymous said...: State pension age rise to 68 will not be brought forward yet

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“Those born on or after 5 April 1977 will be the first cohort to work to 68, under current plans …

“A recent report found life expectancy for retiring Britons is now two years lower than [in 2017] … The main argument for accelerating a rise in the state pension age has always been that people are living for longer …”

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-65120317

The U.K. government is *terrified* that raising the state pension age at this precise moment would give rise to events akin to those happening in France.

But make no mistake, very soon after the next general election an announcement will come from Labour or the Conservatives (it matters not a jot which party is ‘elected’) that the retirement age for a state pension ‘must’ rise to 68.

Followed not long thereafter by another announcement pushing it back again to 70 or later.

Followed not long thereafter by … (Well, picture the weary old workhorse chasing the carrot dangled on a stick tantalisingly before its face, never to be attained this side of heaven).

Work ‘till you drop — or you’re selected to receive the next ‘vaccination’.
At 30 March 2023 at 07:10 , Anonymous said...: Phillip Schofield won't return to This Morning for weeks

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11920125/Phillip-Schofield-wont-return-Morning-weeks-brothers-sex-abuse-trial.html

Mmmm.