Ageism

Age discrimination can affect all ages in society but is most noticeable and offensive to the older citizen. This party condemns age discrimination and seeks legislation to align its control with race, sex and disability. There is no practical reason why this should not be introduced and applied particularly in employment procedures and health provision.

It is a fact of life that we are all going to get old. Life is a lottery, whether you are born, getting through life in one piece, or when you will die. All we wish to do is make life easier and stress free for the older citizen. So as you all get older the fear of insecurity, loneliness, sidelined by the younger and more agile, back of the line for medical care, erosion of financial help, are taken out of the equation. If your final days are mapped out for you, think how much more you will enjoy your quality of life in the early and middle years.

We have all been lonely at some stage in our life, think how more miserable it is when you are old. We have to learn how to care. The couple on the right have lived through two world wars, raised a family, worked all their life, paid their dues and now watch as their taxes and contributions paid in over many years go to subsidising the more well off. The situation is made worse by politicians who make vote winning promises [bribery] or towards a burgeoning benefits related system [ostrich principle] or immigration support for individuals [easy way out] who have neither paid, or are less inclined to in the future.

The old are not only made to feel like scapegoats, they actually are treated like it.