Quote of the day 20th August 2019

"This headline is completely false. And it is scare mongering to suggest that this is government policy.

✅ The State Pension age is 68 which is fair, sustainable and affordable for all generations. 

👍 This Government is helping millions of people enjoy a secure retirement."

The above quote comes from Amber Rudd, responding to reports of  a think-tank recommendation that the retiring age should be raised to 75 which was wrongly presented by left-wing newspapers and some Labour politicians as if it were a Conservative policy.

It is not.

I quoted David Brin the other day - see box below. To have any chance of finding imaginative and original solutions to your problems you will need to consider a wide range of ideas, including some ideas which, when you do look at them, you will conclude are ridiculous.

The idea of raising the retirement age to anything remotely like 75 in the sort of timescale suggested by that think-tank report is a classic example of such a ridiculous idea.



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