Reply to: We demand equal Rights.....sometimes!!!

[Old Greg]

As long as I get to shag Jenny Aguter that doesn't sound so bad

Doesn't sound too good for her.

[Doggy Styles]

And what young people there are will find it harder to get jobs because the old farts aren’t retiring, have they thought this through?

Old farts not retiring eases the burden on younger people to support old farts, so yes, they have thought of that at least.

As long as there is no discrimination, it's a free market out there for jobs. No reason why old farts shouldn't compete in it.

[doodab]

As long as I get to shag Jenny Aguter that doesn't sound so bad

Knock yourself out.

[amcdonald]

I suggest a Logans Run type future where anyone approaching the age of 25 goes to Wembley and floats upwards in a large swirling mass of people until they reach the top and are vaporised by a huge laser.

I plan to just outside of Wembley with some cats.

As long as I get to shag Jenny Aguter that doesn't sound so bad

[MarillionFan]

I suggest a Logans Run type future where anyone approaching the age of 25 goes to Wembley and floats upwards in a large swirling mass of people until they reach the top and are vaporised by a huge laser.

I plan to just outside of Wembley with some cats.

[fullyautomatix]

And what young people there are will find it harder to get jobs because the old farts aren’t retiring, have they thought this through?

Young people are trying to find jobs ???

[SueEllen]

Women are considered the weaker sex and start losing their agility at work sooner than the hard toughened blokes. Hence the need for them to retire early. The retirement age for women should be lowered not raised. We are headed towards third world standards with such measures.

[SueEllen]

And what young people there are will find it harder to get jobs because the old farts aren’t retiring, have they thought this through?

The number of old farts out numbers the number of teenagers and people in their early twenties.

It's a problem of demographics.

[minestrone]

Child birth takes a lot from the female body, check out Beenies's boobies as an example. It is the people who retire at 16 on pseudo pensions that deserve the outrage

[fullyautomatix]

Women are considered the weaker sex and start losing their agility at work sooner than the hard toughened blokes. Hence the need for them to retire early. The retirement age for women should be lowered not raised. We are headed towards third world standards with such measures.

[gingerjedi]

Do they ever?

Keep calm and carry on™

[shaunbhoy]

have they thought this through?

Do they ever?

[gingerjedi]

Problem is the cost of it.

There aren't enough young people to support pensioners who are living whether in good or bad health for 35 years without working. Pensions where designed for people to live about a maximum 6 years after they stopped working.

And what young people there are will find it harder to get jobs because the old farts aren’t retiring, have they thought this through?

[shaunbhoy]

Interestedly their colleague who was about 30 years older was paying into the shop pension scheme but as it was final salary would be better off than both of them.......

Right up until the point that it was retrospectively changed to some lame-assed Money Purchase scheme, at which point it would plummet in value, leaving them almost as skint as their younger workmates.

[SueEllen]

Or reduce the total national pension outlay and let over-65s fight for it in a series of OAP Death Matches.

Could be great TV.

Even though the Glaswegians die younger I bet they would give those OAPs from the likes of Kensington and Chelsea a run for their money.