10m* to work till they drop

[james19]

Sun newspaper: Secret government plans to raise retirement age to 68 by the end of the 2030s.
Sun**: Threat to the poorest …
Thousands more will die with no state pension if the age you get rises, minsters have been warned.
**unable to figure out how to post link to the source, their take on this is it is pretty dire!
* 10m taken from the Daily Mail
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/new-retirement-age-uk-state-pension-changes-b2268830.html

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[alanjjohnstone]

Similar development in France but at least they are taking action to resist the increased pension age.

https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20230123-french-government-pushes-pension-reform-through-to-parliament

[alanjjohnstone]

On January 19, some 1.1 million voiced their opposition to the proposed shake-up.

Around one million people are expected to take to the streets nationwide against plans to boost the age of retirement from 62 to 64.

https://www.france24.com/en/france/20230131-strikes-over-pension-reform-set-to-disrupt-france-for-second-time-in-a-month

Sixty-one percent of French people support the protest movement, a rise of three percentage points from January 12.

Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne has said raising the age of retirement was “non-negotiable”.

Yet, the head of the independent Pensions Advisory Council as saying: “Pension spending is not out of control, it’s relatively contained.”

[alanjjohnstone]

More on the French resistance to pension age increase

France and the Dilemma of Electoral Politics in the 21st Century

“giving voters something to vote against can, at best, temporarily retard the advance of the false friends of the people. Decades of fealty to the “lesser evil” myth has only spawned an ever more skeptical, cynical, frustrated electorate, desperate for an alternative. Absent a left that stands for something, voters will continue to consider faux-populism as a legitimate alternative.”

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