Originally posted by Cyberman
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Worse to me is the clear image of a government scrabbling down the back of the sofa for more cash: they'll get to our pensions and savings soon enough. Your pension will be invested in the government's PFI schemes whether you like it or not; then perhaps later simply absorbed into the state pension - where it will be as safe as your National Insurance money that was already supposed to be paying for your pension.
These investments, not attractive enough to gather investors in their own right, will not be backed by government guarantees, because that would mean putting them on the balance sheet, and the whole point is not to. Then a later generation of voters will repudiate them.
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