Andrew wrote:

On 18/05/2019 20:04, GB wrote:
On 18/05/2019 19:57, Bill Wright wrote:
On 18/05/2019 19:48, ARW wrote:


Going to peg it then?

Adam you're being horrible!

Adam's going to peg it, too. It's only the timescale that's in doubt.


If you're after sympathy, you're going about it the wrong way.

When I started work, men retired at 65 and lived for another 7 years
or so, while the ladies chattered on a few more years.

Now everyone seems to be living to 95+, and that age group
paid peanuts in NI when they were working, but were already
retired when NuLab had its massive top-down NHS re-org in
2001. They benefit from this but have never paid any of the
NI increases that were imposed on younger workers to pay
for it.

I am fairly certain that the only people to benefit from Blair's
reorganisation were big American health companies and anyone (mainly
nurses sick of hard work, and new MBA holders) who wanted a well-paid
management job despite no discernible management ability.



If you are over 70 then you are in 'profit' (unless you
were in the top 25% of taxpayers originally).


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Roger Hayter