Neither of them..... Corbyn is a dithera and Madam Crankie is a single issue politician, albeit I do admire her dedication to this one single issue, regardless of what the electorate want.
NEARLY four million women who had years of state pension entitlement “stolen” from them by the Tories raising their retirement age will be compensated under a Labour government, the party pledged today. Women expecting to retire at 60 were told they would have to wait five years longer when changes to the state pension age were accelerated in 2010. Shadow chancellor John McDonnell said his £58 billion pledge would settle a “debt of honour” to 3.8 million affected women born in the 1950s by paying them each an average of £15,380. The announcement came after Prime Minister Boris Johnson went back on a promise to help those affected. Mr McDonnell said: “It is an entitlement, it is not a benefit… The scale of this injustice is enormous.” Campaign group Backto60 recently lost a legal battle against the government over its handling of the state pension age for women. Mr McDonnell said Labour was working on the assumption that the women would ultimately win their legal fight for compensation. He said the cost of the policy was not in Labour’s manifesto as it was being treated differently from other financial commitments, likening it to compensation that the government had to pay to victims of asbestos-caused mesothelioma after losing a legal battle last year. Shadow education secretary Angela Rayner said the women’s pensions had been “stolen” and “should be paid back.” The retirement age for women rose to 65 in 2018, in line with men, and is expected to go up to 66 by 2020 and to 67 by 2028. The last government planned to raise the pension age to 68 for men and women by 2039. Campaign group Women Against State Pension Inequality (Waspi) argues that they were not given enough time to prepare for the changes. That's nearly 10% of the vote Bojo has missed out on.
I think it should be the same for both sexes, 60 years old... anything else would be an inequality. Since labour is giving it away, why not £116,000,000,000,000?
BTW it would have been half that amount had the thieving Tories paid into Ni fund over the last 10 years.
I think a certain someone is sore that they'd have missed 5 or 6 extra years of retirement payments if my proposal went through....
They had to steal the NI money to run the country, as they gave all their mates corporation tax cuts...
I feel it's a picture of what is to come from a labour government. All through brexit they were popping and jumping into court and we were being told you have to respect the decision of the courts. The waspi case went to court and on the 3rd of October lost their case as it was pointed out the regulation to match the ages was to fulfil the legal obligation of the sexual equality act Labour, knowing the court had ruled and no appeal followed, did nothing, sweet fa since that decision on the 3rd of October. Then yesterday as if by magic in the middle of a general election, completely ignoring the courts decision, announced a £58 billion wahoo fund that has not even been costed. Personally I have sent a chrimbo card to the old bloke with the white beard asking for a nos ducati R, the last good ones before the v4 arrived.
Wrong wrong, WASPI never had the JR it was the Back the 60's campaign, and it going to be appealed, or maybe it won't now. ps its called playing yer cards close to yer chest.
