[jambutty]

At 68 this proposed new retirement age will not affect me, unless they make it retrospective but I sympathise with all those who will be affected.

I read in this and other forums posts people complaining, quite rightly, about the level of taxation that we are burdened with. However, what we should be campaigning against isn’t so much against the level of taxation but HOW THOSE TAXES ARE SPENT.

Billions upon billions are wasted on, among other things, multiple layers of unnecessary bureaucracy. We have an ID card system being foisted on us the cost of which would practically solve the NHS problems overnight if it was abandoned. Computer systems for the DSS, or whatever it is called nowadays, that didn’t work and more money has to be poured into the cyber hole. The list is endless.

If you, as the family bread winner, spent the bulk of your earnings in the pub, bookie etc. leaving your family with not enough to exist on, you would quite rightly be condemned for doing so. That is exactly what this and previous governments have done to us the UK family.

Complain about taxes and the retirement age if you must but complain even louder about how your taxes are being spent.