You cannot live on your pension? You voted for it!

I have persistently warned that the long-term goal of the Tory Party is to reduce the British working class people to a state of slavish dependence, under which conditions they will gratefully accept whatever crumbs the ruling class see fit to offer them. Their latest salvo in this never-ending war against their own people is to claim that the pension system in modern Britain, the seventh largest economy in the world, is unaffordable. They argue that the nation cannot afford to keep the present system of old age pension provision, with the Government Actuary, Martin Clarke, warning that the pensions bill “is unsustainable in the long term without persistent support from Treasury grants”. All my life, people in this country accessed their pension at age 65, but the Tories have now raised that to 70 for all those people in Britain who are under 30 at this time. A pension's expert, Malcolm Mclean, of retirement specialists Barnett Waddingham, said: “It wouldn’t surprise me to see the age go up to 70 before 2050 and conceivably reach 80 or even 85 by the end of the century.”

As I warn you, the free marketeers are determined to destroy all our traditional norms and values and since the advent of the Blessed Margaret they have been remarkably successful in this endeavour. It was a traditional norm in this country that people enjoyed full-time permanent employment with most employees qualifying for a final salary-type pension to supplement a low state pension, whilst the state pension itself was traditionally boosted for employees by an earnings related part. This was to avoid pensioners being trapped in poverty on retirement. That has all but vanished. The situation today is revealed by the same figures that support the claims that the current pension provision is unsustainable. These figures reveal that Britain has the worst pension provisions in the developed world. Workers on an average of £26,500 per annum receive a pension of 29% of that in their state pension, and, those who are privy to government thinking on pensions warn us that we may have to wait until we're 85 to get that in future. The Dutch presently receive 100% of their retirement salary in their pension and even Chile, Poland and Mexico pay better equivalent state pensions than the UK. I wonder what all those pensioners and working class racists approaching pension age who voted Brexit will do after Brexit when the Tories sell off the NHS to the private sector and they have to purchase American style health insurance which they will never be able to afford? I await with interest. 

I wonder if there is an equivalent ignorant, ill-informed and stupid electorate anywhere else in the world who persistently vote against their own interests in the way the majority British do? Pensions are not a gift or a benefit, they are a right. In a money economy where you are prohibited from purchasing land either by law or financial circumstances, you are dependent on working for your income and your means of survival. If you are then legally prohibited from working once you reach a certain age and removed from that money economy by what is an artificial and arbitrary means, then those who have designed the system that produces such circumstances must make adequate provision for you. In Britain working people have a sum of money deducted from their wages and salaries to pay for any future health and social security needs, thus, you do not get health and welfare for free as the Tories persistently tell the rest of the world. It is prepaid for by what are known as deferred wages. As I have told you before, for the bulk of my working life I paid 35 pence in the pound in income tax on top of another circa 30% of my wages on national insurance payments. If our pension provision is in such dire straits, then it is the result of deliberate Tory policy, which is? To reduce the working class to a state of modern slavery! Again I warn you that the real motivation behind Brexit is the complete removal of rights, particularly employment rights, but also social security rights. These are human rights and why the Tories are so desperate to remove us from the protection of the European Courts of Human Rights and Justice. This is what they mean by sovereignty, by taking back control. Once again I remind you, by their fruits shall ye know them. There is no pensions crisis, it is an artificially created crisis, an accountancy fraud. It is the same with the NHS and the welfare crisis. The money exists, but the will does not. This is the free market agenda, the legacy of the Blessed Margaret, strangle all wealth and improvement at the bottom so you can transfer it to the top. Just keep giving them Royal weddings and births, bread and circuses, and they will thank you for their poverty and slavery. Never underestimate the hatred and contempt that the Royals, the aristocracy and the Tories harbour for the lower orders and their determination to reduce you to total dependency. Britons never never ever shall be slaves, aye, that will be chocolate. You have been warned

Your Servant
Doktor Kommirat