It does not matter how old you are, unless you die you will eventually become a pensioner and left to the mercy of an uncaring society. Just think about it!!.
Let us hope for electoral reform, it may give us a better chance to obtain some representation in Parliament. We shall shortly be asking you to spread the word on finding new members. It will probably be your last chance, unless you believe that pensions or pensioners will not be affected by the financial/allowance cuts or increase in taxes soon to be unleashed onto the general public.
We await to see how the new coalition will care for the pensioners and their pensions. Your views and advice will be welcome.
We therefore require new members plus support from existing ones to ensure that when and if we get some form of proportional representation we might be in a better positon to make our views known.
To gather some momentum we hope you will embark on an exercise to see if we can increase the membership, an annoucement to be made soon as we can reconfigure our database.
Why are we bothering, you might ask?. We believe that there must be a few voices within parliament, the more the better, which does not follow a party line. We would advocate free voting on contentious topics. It is strange that we pretend to be a democracy during the election period, but once the voting is finished, we normally end up to all intents and purposes with a dictatorship in all but name. We are limited in what we can do, we have no financial backers, nor volunteers to act as Party Officers and rely entirely on your support. We welcome anyone who wishes to act on our behalf and those who can specialise in a related topic for the web site.
We will not bore you with the facts on how capable the last government had been for this country, each and everyone of you must have been affected, one way or another, with varying degrees of mismanagement in just about every aspect of our society. We have in the past ranted at each turn of the screw that the Labour government has imparted on all of us. The new coalition government has an uphill task in trying to normalise the disruption and mayhem caused over the past thirteen years or so. Remember, that both the major political parties have been exposed in the expenses scandal and although it would appear they have tried to put their house in order, the reality of the situation is that it should never have occurred in the first place. The same applies with the demise of our financial well being, just about everybody knew something was wrong with the generosity of the mortgage system, but the Institutions and MP's avoided their responsibility in carrying out the necessary checks and balances. There does not appear to have be anyone of sufficient integrity, expertise, common sense or care to avoid or at least buffer the chaos that ensued.
We could write chapter and verse on how your pensions have been eroded, both private and state, to the point of utter despair. There cannot be many of you that have not been affected. They found money to bail out the Banks, that between them and the lack of governmental control has caused one of the biggest recessions in history, but when it comes to Pensions nothing ever materialises and the erosion of these and increases in the cost of living is just driving more of the elderly into poverty.
The result of the financial crisis is that millions who relied on interest from their hard earned savings over the years, predominantly the elderly, with inadequate support from other means, are in effect now subsidising the losses incurred by our so called financial experts. Some of these financiers are still living off their undeserved bonuses based on systems made of straw. Some of whom are lapping it up in far distant shores with their ill gotten gains. A clawback arrangement would not go amiss.
The Banks are still offering only a measly return on deposit accounts whilst charging in comparison high rates of interest on borrowing. This is scandalous and must be dealt in a much fairer way.
We must have representation for the elderly, sick, infirm and unemployed as a top priority, because when the cuts to public services come, our group will be considered a hindrance. This section of society, of whom a great many have carried out a considerable service to Queen and Country may well be viewed as an unnecessary non-performing overhead that will be seen as a burden to the public purse. Due to the horrendous debt this country is in the cuts have got to come from somewhere, the result of which will probably be felt for generations. You can only do so much with improved management and then following that it could be a case of the weak once again going to the wall, so it is imperative they have representation in parliament.
We do not want your money, we just need your support, so please, just join us.
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