Just another in what is going to be a long list of unpleasantness to come.
So, no real change from the last 40 years of politics, BA.
So you think pensioners may have been taken advantage of?
It's an old Tory trick: a few hand-outs to pensioners as a sop to gain votes. But you might well consider that they have, indeed, been taken advantage of:
By Dan Hyde, Consumer Affairs Editor8:38AM GMT 27 Oct 2014 ,
Workers in Britain face a larger financial shock in retirement than European counterparts because their state pension is "one of the least generous in Europe", a study has found.
The state pension of £113.10 a week is worth just a third of the average salary of someone in work, the International Longevity Centre said.
The "replacement" figure was far below the average of for the rest of Europe, where state retirement payments were worth nearly half national average earnings.
Britain ranked 21st out of 27 countries in the list, the ILC found, giving it one of the least generous pensions in Europe.
