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fred246

It'll be interesting to see what the youth vote think about it. I thought labour were targeting the young. Tax the young workers so we can give money to people retiring earlier than the young can only dream of.

RD42

fred246 wrote: »

It'll be interesting to see what the youth vote think about it. I thought labour were targeting the young. Tax the young workers so we can give money to people retiring earlier than the young can only dream of.

Labour will claim this (and everything else) will be paid for by the "rich", many young voters think will exclude them.

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MK62 wrote: »

You'd need to qualify that statement with what you mean by "major currency"........the Euro fell far more than that in one day back in Jan 2015, against the Swiss Franc.......in fact so did GBP......but that doesn't make the headline you want.....

You are referring to this:

The Swiss Franc rose by more than 20% against all of its developed world rivals in the blink of an eye back in January 2015 after the Swiss National Bank took the market by surprise with a decision to abandon its "peg" to the Euro, which sent shockwaves through financial markets.

And you are contorting the currency movement to reflect on the performance of the Euro and GBP, rather than its cause.

Paul_Herring

jem16 wrote: »

For those wishing to compare their redress with friends.

https://twitter.com/NJM71/status/1198592668210782209

Thrugelmir

ZingPowZing wrote: »

The Brexit-ideologists in the Conservative Party have certainly succeeded in making us poorer, and they see plenty more damage that they can do if they get a mandate next month.

Suggest you take your views to the MoneySaversArms this is the Pensions Board.

MK62

ZingPowZing wrote: »

You are referring to this:

The Swiss Franc rose by more than 20% against all of its developed world rivals in the blink of an eye back in January 2015 after the Swiss National Bank took the market by surprise with a decision to abandon its "peg" to the Euro, which sent shockwaves through financial markets.

And you are contorting the currency movement to reflect on the performance of the Euro and GBP, rather than its cause.

I'm not contorting anything.......you said

the vote to leave the EU caused the biggest one-day currency fall since fixed-rates.
Not the worst day for £, the worst day for any major currency in forty years

.......I'm merely pointing out that this is, in fact, not true, unless you discount the Swiss Franc as a major currency (and so discount any movements of other currencies against it) - hence my request that you qualify what you meant by "major" currency.

badmemory

Any woman who wants to get this extra pension & it is not any sort of equality, is taking us back to the day when I had to declare my earnings to my (then) husband & he could get angry at me because of the extra tax he had to pay. This is not even one step forward two step back, it is stand still then back to the 1800s way before we got the vote. Any government thinking of going ahead with this needs to have a serious rethink. Even baby brain doesn't last over 25 years!

fred246

I expect the WASPI women won't know about the latest offer from labour unless they receive a personal letter from Jeremy Corbyn.

thepurplepixie

badmemory wrote: »

Just to make it clear I am female. I agree with this wholeheartedly. I am sick of so called 50s women going on about this. They have had 25 years to find out & it was much talked about back in the early to mid 90s. I bet they would scream very loudly if they get this (hopefully never going to happen) & then all the men who didn't get their pension until they were 65 started on an equality campaign & remember some of them will be over a 100 now! That would be several million men wanting 5 years worth of pension paid back & lets not even think about the executors of wills who will want several K each paid into the estate for distribution.


I agree that some women will need some extra help, but that is what it should be, extra help not state pension terms being changed again unless for everyone (everyone means male & female though).

Actually back in the 90s many men and women were campaigning for the pension age to be equalized at 60 so I don't think women would be screaming. Of course the difference is that men always knew their pension was going to be 65 and the largest increase was one year with decades of notice. Some 1950s women spent half their working life expecting their pension at 60 and then expecting it to be 62 or 63 and then found out with 6 years notice that it was going to be 65 or 66.

Personally I think if the 53/54 women had a campaign they would get much more support as they have a much stronger case that other 50s women. They might lose anyway but it would be more interesting and if they won it would be cheaper:T

thepurplepixie

badmemory wrote: »

Any woman who wants to get this extra pension & it is not any sort of equality, is taking us back to the day when I had to declare my earnings to my (then) husband & he could get angry at me because of the extra tax he had to pay. This is not even one step forward two step back, it is stand still then back to the 1800s way before we got the vote. Any government thinking of going ahead with this needs to have a serious rethink. Even baby brain doesn't last over 25 years!

Did no one ever tell you that you could separate your tax affairs? He would have lost the married tax allowance but if your combined income pushed you into higher tax bands it could be worth it. I know because we did it and saved money. I realise this advice is a bit late now but it just shows that people didn't always know these things even though it was well known in my workplace and my husbands and presumably many others. Neither of us worked in the tax office :rotfl: