LETTER TO MP

[Terry Stretton]

Hi all

Received response from my MP when I Lived  in UK

This is His reply

Dear Terry Stretton,

 

Thank you for contacting Toby Perkins MP on the 10th of October regarding the ‘frozen pensions’ policy. Due to longstanding convention, an MP can only answer questions from their constituents. Unfortunately, as you are no longer a constituent, Mr Perkins is unable to reply to you. However, this is an issue that Mr Perkins is aware of, so thank you for your email.

 

Kind regards,

 

Lucy Bilson

Obviousley NOT interested

[Michael Skully]

It would seem to me that if you registered to vote in the UK under the new rules, the MP should be forced to answer the letter

We got something about being resident in the constituency being a reason for not replying.

I guess a letter to the speaker of the house is in order to ensure the story is correct - it should not be

Mike

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[terraine]

His response answers it
Not living in area so "Stiff"
Poor response from MP. In area I
lived in
RegardsTerry

[clive walford]

RESPONSES FROM MP’S. It was not so long ago, (around the time the new for life vote saga was tentatively, by  you know which party, again raised),  followed as a political “vote for us” advert on Facebook.

 I, for  PPiI, did comment on the change of wording of the "response of MPs",  (Govt publication), prior to the vote for life, that did state MPs were required to reply to constituents in the  MPs constituency AND TO  REGISTERED VOTERS. (i.e. from anywhere).  it was changed by the removal of the AND TO  REGISTERED VOTERS section. Does that not make the response from the MP referred to in this string of comments somewhat wrong? I will try to find my original post or reference shortly and comment on this string later. (I do believe I did suggest that  the change would happen).

https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/bapanews/FDDD6A6D-4D8F-42D7-9727-1B201E154F1E%40bigpond.com

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[JO ODDIE]

There is an interesting article in the ToL today, on how well off British Pension are by international standards (well down the list compared to similar economies). 

I was struck by this:

For all the obsession over how to fund Britain’s ageing population, the UK spends just 5.1 % of GDP on old age pensioners.  This is one of the lowest rates in the developed world, & even some way below the US (7.1%). 

Britain is unusual in that the state pension contributes just a third of total pension income (compared with nearly half 20 years ago). 

Perhaps our masters should reflect on the above when bleating about affordability of unfreezing our pensions. 

From the above we see that we are already behind pensioners from similar economies before we are hit by the injustice of frozen pensions. Clearly our comfortably off MPs simply don’t care, & feel no moral obligation or sense of justice. 

The article concludes:

Compared to their international counterparts, British pensioners have been short-changed. 

And doubly so those of us whose pensions have been frozen. 

Best of luck with the campaign to unfreeze our pensions. Last year when I wrote to my MP I got, what was effectively, “the brush off”. 

Regards

Jo

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