Don’t be conned by the Tories into accepting a rise in the pensions age, the policies driving their social destruction are not based on equity or equality.

 Councillor Margaret Richardson who is a new pensioner who was caught up in the WASPI debacle has been researching whether the latest announcement of a rise in the pensions age is necessary or if it's Conservative idealism?

She told us that on the back of Brexit “I believe that Boris Johnson’s government is wrangling over how do we maintain a workforce large enough to grow the nation's economy yet still pander to those who want to stop immigration unless they are investors in in the gangmasters agencies and get a cut of workers wages, and they came up with let's keep the baby boomers working longer”.

“The baby boom generation, people born between 1946 and mid 1964 will all be of pensionable age sometime by mid 2031 and the current expression of spin by the Tories is of ‘how can we support such a large pensionable cohort?’ is another con and an element of what's becoming known as ‘Project Poverty’ to ensure we as a nation tip up £billions to investors and bankers while leaving ordinary people in dire jeopardy of starving or freezing to an early death”.

The pressure on Government finance to look after the elderly has been stripped away and DWP economists must have been crunching figures and data as fast as possible at the number of elderly deaths the Government inaction on the early pandemic period and the link with the extension of the pension age from 60 to 67 and then the disastrous for working class areas of the Government’s care and well being package that still forces people who live in towns with low value (by London standards) to have to sell their homes to fund their own care even though National Insurance payments have risen sharply under Boris Johnson.

Councillor Richardson went on to say”raising the pension age to 70 will certainly shorten working peoples lifespans even further than at present with health data showing how people who work on physical jobs such as the building trade, their upper body strength which enables them to perform at the rate employers expect falls away around 55 years of age and people working in the arena of public transport both eyesight and hearing essential faculties to safely deliver people to their destinations drop off at the same age so for many working until  age 70 is simply impossible leading to people being destitute by the time their state pension arrives to bail them out a little bit.”

“ The suggestion from the Tories fits neither equality nor equity legislation as it currently stands and it's something even if you're currently in your twenties you should think about when you cast your ballot for the next Government.”