[jambutty]

Apparently there are some 9 million pensioners in the UK, with more being added daily than there are leaving. So why don’t they get together and form the Pensioners’ Political Party?

For decades both major political parties have only paid lip service to pensioners and the current lot have raided pension funds for billions leaving many pensioners on the verge of destitution.

With a 9 million potential member base the PPP would be a formidable force in politics and would probably hold the balance of power in any Parliament if not actually form a government. Come to think of it if the pensioners who normally vote, voted for a PPP parliamentary candidate they wouldn’t be able to vote for whoever they voted for before so it would be a double whammy against the three major parties (if you can call the Liberals a major party).

Even if only half of the pensioners joined the PPP and donated an annual subscription of just £10 (that’s less than 3p per day) that would realise a working fund of £45,000,000 per year. No need to seek donations from wealthy individuals or for that matter to offer peerages to the donors for their money.

All pensioners have one thing in common and that is in spite of the various governments they have survived for more than 60 years. They have EXPERIENCE in the real world. The experience of budgeting with limited funds and dealing of the many day to day issues that are necessary to survive. Can the same be said for the majority of the current stock of MP’s?