If as reported the junior doctors want a minimum of 26% pay rise element then as I posted elsewhere earlier, that's billions unfunded in this parliament.

Not so easy being the Government

Edited by HKOwen (10 Jul 2024 1.39am)

Responsibility Deficit Disorder is a medical condition. Symptoms include inability to be corrected when wrong, false sense of superiority, desire to share personal info no else cares about, general hubris. It's a medical issue rather than pure arrogance.

Here we go

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If that is the case then I agree with you but some have taken that exact stance over Brexit.

Using top experts as advisers makes sense for any government. They might actually know a bit more about the subject than a journalist on a right wing tabloid.

What he says makes perfect sense. Suggesting pensioners must possibly contribute more than Britons of working age in some circumstances, and if the public finances are in a bit of a state, perhaps wealthy pensioners should be giving up their full state pension, is perfectly sensible.

I too think pensioners should contribute more. Not necessarily through higher taxation, though that’s also likely, but through voluntary effort in helping the less fortunate. Many already do. Some drive people to hospital appointments. One friend of mine fits hearing aids in care homes and in people’s own homes. All done just for expenses. If you can, you should.

Nor do I think it unreasonable to look at whether paying the state pension to those who don’t need it to live well makes sense, although I suspect the potential costs would outweigh the benefit. I wouldn’t expect that to happen but I do expect the tax burden on the wealthy retired to be eased upwards.

It’s unlikely though to impact too many Express readers.

For the avoidance of doubt any comments in response to a previous post are directed to its ideas and not at any, or all, posters personally.

So we should penalise people for being responsible?

And you claim to be a Tory?

Hilarious.

You'll have to explain that statement.

There is simply no justification for denying state pension to people who have been responsible enough to save for their retirement and or have been more successful in life.
What you would be basically saying is don't bother to prepare for retirement because the government will punish you for it.