The elderly should earn their pensions...

[Hoppy01]

The elderly should earn their pensions by doing voluntary work in their communities to avoid being a ?burden on the state?, a retired mandarin has suggested.
Lord Bichard, formerly head of the Benefits Agency, made the controversial suggestion at a House of Lords discussion on how to meet the costs of Britain?s ageing population.
Last night his plans were branded ?National Service for the over-60s? by angry pensioner groups.
The cross-bench peer, a former permanent secretary at the Department for Education, retired from the civil service at just 53.
His taxpayer-funded pension is estimated to be ?120,000 a year.


Retired people should have their pension docked if they refuse to do community work, says former mandarin (who retired from Whitehall aged 54) | Mail Online

[Hoppy01]

This has got to be a wind up, why stop there, why not get the kids to earn their keep and shove them up chimneys.
How the hell do wallopers like him ever get in a position of power....

[Mungo85]

yea, they should pay more taxes during their working lives & raise more future taxpayers. Broken Britain!

[Mungo85]

This has got to be a wind up, why stop there, why not get the kids to earn their keep and shove them up chimneys.
How the hell do wallopers like him ever get in a position of power....

These kids get everything free until age 16. How about charging them for it & offset it against future taxes & NI contributions.

Oh, that's next weeks policy!

[Canker_Canison]

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[chas7]

this weed of a man who is still earning a lot of money apart from his inflated pension, has a f***ing bare faced cheek suggesting this for our pensioners the same people who paid for his nest-egg and big fancy house which will be nice and hot all winter.

but some of our pensioners will have to choose between heating or a good meal some days & nights this winter

[Meat-Head]

The elderly should earn their pensions by doing voluntary work in their communities to avoid being a ?burden on the state?, a
.
The cross-bench peer, a former permanent secretary at the Department for Education, retired from the civil service at just 53.
His taxpayer-funded pension is estimated to be ?120,000 a year.

Yes this is a brilliant idea, as long as

1) Old people should have their pension stopped if they snell bad

2) They should ALL be banned from supermarkets during the day time.

[polt]

Aye you can tell that t#@t never fought for the country during the wars, The thing is this is the former head of the benefits agency and he has obviously forgotten the fact pensions is not a choice it is a right so long as you pay National Insurance contributions.

https://www.gov.uk/national-insurance/what-national-insurance-is-for

so he can get off his effen high horse and should be told he has to work until he's 68 and his 15 years of pension recouped back into the system to help pay for the increase in pensions required. Bet he'd shut up then !!

a now famous politician once said a true word but to the wrong people "PLEBS" should have been used in the Lords !

[bobwill]

according to a mate who works for dhss that the only way to get promotion is to be completely useless and as the union will not let anybody be sacked the only way to get rid of the useless tw@ts is to promote them to a different branch so the useless ones are the ones that get to the top and I think the statement from this tw@t proves the case

[Frogger]

according to a mate who works for dhss that the only way to get promotion is to be completely useless and as the union will not let anybody be sacked the only way to get rid of the useless tw@ts is to promote them to a different branch so the useless ones are the ones that get to the top and I think the statement from this tw@t proves the case

Same things apply to some if not most social workers.

[Frogger]

The elderly should earn their pensions by doing voluntary work in their communities to avoid being a ?burden on the state?, a retired mandarin has suggested.

And a "Lord" is making this suggestion PMSL.

The "State" are fond of making statements about people being burdens when they helped create the burden by allowing the banksters steal peoples futures.