Labour is right not to pay compensation to the Waspi women – those who feel aggrieved that the state pension age for women was raised from 60 to 66 without, so they claim, them being given adequate information about the change. We are being invited to believe that tens of thousands of women drew up detailed plans for their retirement – all now undermined – without actually bothering to find out at what age they would retire.
You can’t claim poverty one moment while writing open-ended cheques for favoured groups the next
To swan off into state-funded retirement at 60 when life expectancy for women is now well into the 80s would be absurd. We can’t have a working age population supporting a retired population that consists of around a third of all adults. Moreover, all women have been asked to do is to work for as long as men have long had to do.
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