2/ The 1st people likely to be affected by such a change are those born between 6 March 1961 & 5 April 1977.
Welfare campaigners are appalled & point out that with workplace pensions often unaffordable, 75% of Britain’s elderly will rely entirely on their state payments by 2036.
3/ There was 3% increase in mortality in 2018. That is startling because it continues a rise in mortality that began with the first significant fall in UK life expectancy in 2014 and means that UK life expectancy will still be lower today than it was then, five long years ago.
Here is a thread on it
Meanwhile MPs salaries have increased to c £79.5k & their pensions are calculated at 1/40th (or 1/50th depending on the scheme) for every year worked of their final salary
Mine was 1/80th for each year worked as a public servant.
Of course I haven’t dealt with the uplift in salary for those who are in Government or on the shadow Front Bench
It seems this brilliant idea comes from The Centre for Social Justice much beloved of Tory Gov’s and which is the is chaired by ex-Welfare Secretary and Tory leader Iain Duncan Smith and Tory governments get many of their ideas from it.
Like Universal Credit.
I shall wait with interest hearing the Government responding by saying “All options are on the table and nothing is yet decided”.
Well. It can’t be decided as it has to get through Parliament first.
Nice timing for a General Election though.
Govs (damn autoincorrect apostrophe)
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We’re just pausing over tea to discuss the location of the DC solar panel isolation switches as the loft is not a good location for me up a wobbly loft ladder and very awkward loft hatch
They are going in the spare bedroom cupboard so easy for me to get to
The team is absolutely lovely.
Tomorrow the roofing panel team will arrive: James and Rhys who have both been doing this for 4 years.
James is ex military
Rob and Andy (electricians and survey team)
Geoff (sales consultant) has been in solar for years.
Just thinking about my young Ukrainian Refugee today.
Two years ago today she was awoken by her brother in law, a customs official, telling her to get out of Kyiv straight away. Forget her home and job there. The Russians were invading.
She left to go to her parents
So did her sister and her two young children. To a tiny village in the Poltava Region. All living together in their parents house.
What must it have been like for her? Realising that the war was not going to be over quickly and her lost home and lost job were now her reality
Meanwhile her cousins were fighting at the front. The loss of life and destruction of property all too real and the grim stories of torture, rape and deportation of children growing louder.
Suddenly having to take off to a foreign country she had never visited to survive
Extraordinary: “On 11 June 2020 a Supplemental Deed was signed by (HOUCHEN) & (Corney & Musgrave). “The innocuous title & diminutive page count contrasts with the practical impact of this legal document, which amends the…agreements signed in March 2020”
The March 2020 deal which granted options to TWL over the entire Teesworks site,” comments the review (16.31).
“The amendments added wording which provided express permission for TWL to enter any of the option land & to remove all minerals, aggregates, metals & equipment”
“ & title to such items passes to TWL on removal from the property. The effect of this was to transfer to the JV Partners 50% of the value of the recyclable materials”
TWL = Tees Works Ltd which WAS owned 50/50 by South Tees Development Corp (public) and Corney & Musgrave (JV)
Ladies & gentlemen : I give you Steve Gibson, Houchen’s then vice chair at South Tees Development Corp. “You’ll be fucking shaking your head very soon. I’ll be fucking shaking it…you are going to get a fight like you have never fucking experienced…and I want your walls…”
“..and I want your eyes out of your head; I want the fucking roof off your house; I want your kids out of private school; I want no shoes on your fucking feet”
That’s his idea of a professional negotiation with PD ports.
He went on to say that he didn’t pay over any money to the PO but he did have a conversation with Geoff Hoon who was Defence Minister in Blair’s Gov at the time
He advised this postmaster, who had 3 post offices at the time and oversaw or provided relief for 20, to get out of PO
Now what did Geoff Hoon know back in the early 2000s to make him say that?
In any event this clip seems particularly important as he says the remote alteration they all saw together disappeared a couple of days later…also done remotely.