[Acrylic-bob]

This all getting a bit post-modernist.

I think that a lot of the disagreement centres on the value we place on certain occupations. For example, The Idiot-in-Chief reckons he is worth every penny of £16K per year, plus pension, plus benefits, plus allowances, although the majority of members here, given the choice, would not pay him with the holes out of washers.

I cannot for the life of me see why a football player deserves to be paid £60k per week, though I suspect that the football player, like the Idiot-in-Chief, would disagree with me.

The crux of the matter is the crappy way the State Pension System was set up in the first place. Had the income been invested, as it should have been, there would not have been a problem. But it wasn't. Income came in through one door and straight out through the other. What was left over at the end of any particular year was then absorbed into general government funds. Can you imagine the monolithic size of of the state pension fund now if it had been invested, it doesn't bear thinking about. The Labour Party have never been very good with money.

Post-Modernist: Susan Sontag; "Once you have decided that something is art, it is pointless saying that A is better than B, because they each have their own inimicable qualities." She has a lot to answer for, that woman.