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Apparently the government`s latest daft idea to deal with the pensions crisis in the UK is to suggest that university graduates and professionals should work until they`re 70 as they live longer than blue-collar and manual workers (you couldn`t make this up!)

Doubtless they will want to extend their own logic further by making women work longer than men as women on average live about 5 years longer than men, and by allowing the terminally ill or alcoholics to retire even earlier, as generally speaking they do not live as long as healthy individuals? :-5

john8pies wrote: Apparently the government`s latest daft idea to deal with the pensions crisis in the UK is to suggest that university graduates and professionals should work until they`re 70 as they live longer than blue-collar and manual workers (you couldn`t make this up!)



Doubtless they will want to extend their own logic further by making women work longer than men as women on average live about 5 years longer than men, and by allowing the terminally ill or alcoholics to retire even earlier, as generally speaking they do not live as long as healthy individuals? :-5Bloody Irish government is following Britain again on this.

posted by john8pies

Doubtless they will want to extend their own logic further by making women work longer than men as women on average live about 5 years longer than men, and by allowing the terminally ill or alcoholics to retire even earlier, as generally speaking they do not live as long as healthy individuals?


Actually they can't. thanks to european legislation discrimination on grounds of sex is illegal, that's wht the state pension age for women is rising to 65.

Bring back spitting image it would be compulsive viewing nowadays.