Can we trust politicians on frozen pensions ?

[Chris Evans]

Hello All, 

Many of you will remember the Liberal Democrat spokesman on pensions (Steve Webb MP),  who when in Opposition prior to 2010, repeatedly attacked the  Labour  government over frozen pensions.  

   He even signed an early day motion in the House of Commons, describing the selective freezing of the pensions of some overseas pensioners as "wholly unfair, discriminatory and irrational".  Some of you will no doubt have shared our delight when, with a change of government, Steve Webb became Pensions Minister in the Cameron Coalition Government in 2010, and we waited confidently for a statement announcing the end of frozen pensions. However, when in government, not only did he do nothing to correct the longstanding injustice over pensions, he actually blocked attempts by others to  get something done.

   We mention this because in common with many other frozen pensioners, we have asked our local MP in the UK about his views on the subject, before deciding whether to vote for or against him when the next election comes round. His reply was vague and non-committal, and as politicians will, he desperately tried to avoid say anything too definite in case it should come back to bite him in the future. 

    Although we feel it is a good tactics to repeatedly remind sitting MPs that many frozen pensioners have a vote, and  intend to use it, we rather doubt whether a reply from a politician on the frozen pension question can be taken as a true indication of how they would actually vote if the matter were debated in Parliament ? 

Chris & Lorna Evans

[Sheila Whyte]

No,cant.

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[Michael Goodall]

I have spoken personally with Sir Steve Webb about his change of heart which would seem to happen to all those who in opposition will scrap frozen pensions yet in office refuse to do so.

It is basically the 'Sir Humphrey' problem because those filthy overpaid administrators and Chief Secretary's  who will themselves be on high government paid pensions consider us as being disloyal for leaving the UK and raise a sufficiently large smoke screen to confuse the very busy Ministers and MP's who just accept their argument for any easy life!!!

There was an excellent video done made by the International Consortium of British Pensioners (ICBP) prior to End Frozen Pensions which explained the total farce behind frozen pension using the Prime Minister/ Sir Humphrey theme. Just had a quick look and not immediately found it in the wealth of date I collected over the 5 years i was directly involved.

See link enclosed:- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eH9kFikSo7Q

Best regards,

Mike Goodall

Tel:-     +61 8 6364 0859

Mob:- +61 403 909 865

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