There's no way I'm working until I'm 67........ Some jobs just cannot be done safely after the age of 60. I'm lucky in that I have paid into an NHS pension scheme since I was 19, so by the time I retire it should be a decent pension..... Not as decent as police pensions, but passable non the less.
The problem that we have now is that the population of the UK has changed over the last few decades.
1)The birth rate dropped, (especially evident in the 80's) but there has been a drop since the introduction of contraception. This means that we have fewer young people, therefore fewer workers paying into the system.
2) People are living longer, the natural pre NHS killers TB, Childbirth, Infections etc. no longer pose much threat to life and are treatable for most people, therefore people who would have normally died younger are living longer and have to be supported in old age.
3) We have more people getting away with not working (immigrants included). It's high time that the scroungers were weeded out and made to work. Benefits should not be given to anyone for more than 6 months, unless they are genuinely sick and under the care of a specialist. You have no idea how many people I've come across on incapacity for depression and have never seen a psychiatrist!!!!!! There are plenty of jobs out there, why else would we have to import people from Eastern Europe to do them???? Is it that us Brits consider some jobs to be too menial???
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