The great pension heist! Yet another example of a dishonest, thieving bunch of politicians pretending to care about this country but interested only in feathering their own nests and, in some cases, following an outdated doctrine that they are too thick to notice most of the world rejecting in favour of good old-fashioned free-market capitalism.

So the latest “Let’s milk the idiots who voted for us while we still have power” idea is to ignore the years that some have been “saving” for retirement by diligently paying into the National Pensions scheme (lending Government money to use until we need it) knowing how much they will have to spend when it is needed. Now, says Ms Reeves, “Let’s invent a new game. Let’s decide whether or not they deserve the money they’ve been saving.. or whether we need it more”.


Shortly followed by “Oh, look, we’ve proved we need it more than the people who earned it and saved it. We’ve got all these illegal immigrants to pay for and all the new civil servants we will need to deal with all our other nasty little schemes. Where else will we get their wages? Oh, and I need to do some more travelling… you too, Keir?

One can imagine the gloating. “They squealed about IHT on farms, but they are a biddable lot, not like the frogs. We’ve got away with that one. We all know that the Inheritance tax is iniquitous.. so clever! A tax on previously taxed income that hasn’t been frittered away but saved for a rainy day – they die and the money ‘rains’ into the government coffers. Genius!”

Rachel Reeves (left), couple stressed at computer (right)Labour’s great pension heist is upon us! Let me name and shame the winners and losers – Lady Judith McAlpine

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Now, we can tax them on the money they loaned us for decades, thinking they would get it all back with interest. Okay, not quite tax…we will just decide whether or not they deserve it back after all.

If they have hardly improved their situation and are likely to cost us money to care for them, let them have their so-called “savings”, but if they have been more successful, why give them their money back? They don’t need it as much as we do. Not all of us get freebies from our supporters, Keir.”

Once more, I am not alone in asking how this unqualified woman has kept her job after being economical with the truth when applying for her job. That this person is now able to stand up in parliament and gloat as she consigns innocent pensioners who had added the fuel allowance to their budget to a winter wearing every garment they possess, sitting in freezing homes looking like wrinkly Teletubbies. I have already handed out several donations to embarrassed people genuinely hit by the non-arrival of cash they had factored into living through the winter.

I apologise for the repetition, but the people who are perpetrating these atrocities are our employees. None of us would tolerate this sort of behaviour from an employee in their company or household. I appreciate that successive governments have made it increasingly difficult to sack even the laziest, most unpleasant employee these days, but surely we can try?

While I have always maintained that we don’t pay our MPs enough to get much of the quality we need, I can’t see the point of paying people to completely destroy the country that still means so much to so many of us. Can we please sack them? Can they take with them the excess of “civil servants” that Labour governments have imposed on us? Start with those who still work from their nice warm homes. Is the Civil Service Pension to be means-tested?

That would be interesting. Do MPs have to prove destitution in order to claim their state pension? As state employees, surely all their pension comes into that category? This Government must go before it does much more damage. Simple statement. But how do we achieve it?