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  • Pollycat
    Pollycat Posts: 34,681 Forumite
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    edited 15 July 2017 at 10:27AM
    ffacoffipawb wrote: »
    They are also against Equality with men, not Inequality.
    We know what WASPI are for and against.
    I'm a woman who falls under the WASPI 'umbrella' so would benefit financially if they get what they want.
    However, like lots of posters in similar circumstances, I do not agree with WASPI 'asks', 'wants' or 'demands'.
    ffacoffipawb wrote: »
    If they get what they want, expect legal action from men who will be being discriminated against.
    They've been banging on about this for considerable time and are no nearer to getting what they want.
    They don't stand a cat-in-hell's chance of getting what they want.
    I believe (as do lots of people who post on WASPI threads) that s man and a woman born on the same day should get their state pension at the same time.

    Isn't that equality?
  • ffacoffipawb
    ffacoffipawb Posts: 3,593 Forumite
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    Pollycat wrote: »
    We know what WASPI are for and against.
    I'm a woman who falls under the WASPI 'umbrella' so would benefit financially if they get what they want.
    However, like lots of posters in similar circumstances, I do not agree with WASPI 'asks', 'wants' or 'demands'.


    They've been banging on about this for considerable time and are no nearer to getting what they want.
    They don't stand a cat-in-hell's chance of getting what they want.
    I believe (as do lots of people who post on WASPI threads) that s man and a woman born on the same day should get their state pension at the same time.

    Isn't that equality?

    That is equality yes, but that isn't what the GRASPI WASPI want.
  • Mortgagefreeman
    Mortgagefreeman Posts: 452 Forumite
    ffacoffipawb wrote: »
    They are also against Equality with men, not Inequality.

    If they get what they want, expect legal action from men who will be being discriminated against.

    They won't be the only ones. Under the GRASPI remit,women born up to 31/12/59 will get their SP at 60. However, a woman born a day later will have to wait six years longer!

    Anne Keen and her bunch of misfits really haven't thought this through! :rotfl:
  • Triumph13
    Triumph13 Posts: 1,730 Forumite
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    GRASPI don't give a monkey's about equality. Men of the same age can go hang, as can younger women. Their sole motivations are envy of older women and greed.
  • Mortgagefreeman
    Mortgagefreeman Posts: 452 Forumite
    Triumph13 wrote: »
    Their sole motivations are envy of older women and greed.

    Sums up the GRASPI Directors nicely. :rotfl:
  • Mortgagefreeman
    Mortgagefreeman Posts: 452 Forumite
    Is this the same Susan Beevers who's a Director of WASPI?

    http://www.scotsman.com/news/executive-s-hr-boss-was-once-sacked-for-bullying-1-1124126
  • bmm78
    bmm78 Posts: 423 Forumite
    Mortgagefreeman wrote: »
    Is this the same Susan Beevers who's a Director of WASPI?

    http://www.scotsman.com/news/executive-s-hr-boss-was-once-sacked-for-bullying-1-1124126

    Yup, that's her.

    There are apparently two sides to the story.

    Unfortunately, the only side that is public knowledge is the one where she resigned from a £86,000 a year hr role after being suspended after allegations of misconduct which had the investigation delayed after she went on sick leave which may or may not have been connected to a disastrous £8.5m project that was so bad that it warranted an internal investigation and after it had emerged that she had previously lost an industrial tribunal for harassment and intimidation that she hadn't disclosed when applying for the new role.

    Keeping an open mind, the other side of the story may completely exonerate her and she's actually really nice and honest and everything.
    I work for a financial services intermediary specialising in the at-retirement market. I am not a financial adviser, and any comments represent my opinion only and should not be construed as advice or a recommendation
  • Mortgagefreeman
    Mortgagefreeman Posts: 452 Forumite
    I see the lovely Sue Beevers owns a Farm.

    http://www.floddenedgefarmequestriancentre.com

    I can now understand why she need her Pension at 60.

    £25 will buy Gilbert a sack of Oats, or Sullivan a large bag of carrots.

    But if you'd rather waste it, £25 will buy you Membership of WASPI for a year. However Dobbin won't like it. :rotfl:
  • bmm78
    bmm78 Posts: 423 Forumite
    WASPI are the type of people who even argue with their own Twitter parody account....
    I work for a financial services intermediary specialising in the at-retirement market. I am not a financial adviser, and any comments represent my opinion only and should not be construed as advice or a recommendation
  • faybijou
    faybijou Posts: 5 Forumite
    Never thought I'd come on here and find the "smug". Very disappointed in you.
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