[jambutty]

Originally Posted by Mancie

Jambutty.. what makes you think that even if a PPP party was formed pensioners would vote for that party?... as you have said pensioners are a hefty proportion of voters.. but they are split when it comes to voting.. It will not change anything.. the pensoiners sitting in front of the 2 bar leccie fire will vote one way.. and the ones with a very nice income gained from years of undisclosed fruad/schemes/stock market gains or ex politicans will vote another way.

We will never know until and if it happens.

The only choice pensioners have is what is on offer and all political parties seem to treat pensioners as second class citizens.

Don’t forget that millions of pensioners were not able to save for a pension because of the low wages they received when they were working. There was nothing left to save after paying for food rent etc. It is only in the last twenty years or so that the ordinary working chap had access to a pension scheme at the place he worked. Managers and some foremen had a works pension but the guy on the shop floor didn’t. And that includes women who were even worse off.

However, I’ll bet there are more pensioners who struggle to make ends meet than there are those with a bob or two behind them.

If there was a PPP I would vote for them.