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BBC- communicate with your trustees.
I’m posting this extract from the FT as an illustration of what goes wrong when communication breaks down between Trustees (the people who look after the interests of current and future pensioners) and...
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The value of the triple-lock,
There can be no better news for those in or approaching retirement than David Cameron’s election pledge yesterday to keep the triple lock on the Basic State Pension. He promised pensions would...
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Getting to grips with the changes in politics
When asking how people would vote yesterday, Krishnan Guru-Murthy encountered confusion and bewilderment. In his words “I have never seen before so little idea what to do”. The ideological certainties...
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Does Lady Altmann get our vote?
The Guardian is reporting the Conservatives intention to elevate Ros Altmann to the House of Lords and make her minister for consumer affairs. She will not of course get our vote as she will be...
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Labour in a kilt? – Pensions, politics and plagiarism
The SNP’s manifesto is a pretty shameless cut and paste of labour party policy. If your hit single was covered by your biggest rival and it was they that got the royalties when it went to #1, you’d be...
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Pensions, benefits and taxes – the political illusionist’s playthings (ace...
Perception is reality. The reality is perception will drive voting choices. Voting choices will drive a reality which does not match the perceptions. We think we’re wise to this, but still we get...
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Time to move on?
This election was brutal. Gregg McClymont knew his fate but Steve Webb’s defeat was a shock to us all – sadly electors don’t wear pension goggles. Just as we were resigning ourselves to BAU, David...
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This dread butcher and his fiend like queen
My blog yesterday likened the mail between Sarah Vine and Michael Gove to Lady Macbeth winding up her husband to kill the King. For Duncan (or better Banquo) read Boris – though I had no prescience...
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Walk walk walk – not talk talk talk
I have just read an article by Sophie Baxter that puts numbers to the failure of David Cameron to create a one nation Government. It explicitly draws parallels with Cameron’s oration to the nation on...
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A sad year – when only Tories count.
I am going to the Conservative party conference, I am not going to the freak show in Liverpool and I don’t even know when the Liberals are convening. I have limited time on my hands to understand...
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Value for money – we have won a battle not a war.
The FCA Consultation Paper CP16/30″Transaction cost disclosure in workplace pensions” is a very good piece of work and allows IGCs and Trustees to know what their members are paying to have their...
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Falling out of love with the market.
The most startling thing about the conservative manifesto is that it advocates Government intervention as a way of improving those just about managing in Britain. This is a very different approach...
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Falling out of love with the market.
The most startling thing about the conservative manifesto is that it advocates Government intervention as a way of improving those just about managing in Britain. This is a very different approach...
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This blogger’s a reluctant Tory
Some year’s ago, Mrs May reminded the Conservatives that some people thought them the nasty party, this election she’s reminded us that they are the hapless party. They have been opposed by a Labour...
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Remorse or anger? How do Tories feel this morning?
I voted conservative. I didn’t like the candidate (Mark Field), I didn’t like the campaign and I didn’t like myself . I simply felt no confidence in other options. Now, like many who lay dazed from...
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I am a member of the Tory Party, Mark Field is my MP , the incident in this video occurred half a mile from where I live and work. I am ashamed. I do not want to be a member … Continue reading →
View Article“Introducing Collective Defined Contribution (CDC) pension schemes in the...
This invitation came to me from the PMI (thanks Tim Middleton) and I imagine that many people who live in Brighton of Manchester might like to go to one of these meetings, if so – as they are public...
View ArticleConservative manifesto best on pensions
Fantastic news that today’s Conservative Manifesto includes a commitment to look at the pensions net pay anomaly. I hope all other parties will now make the same commitment. pic.twitter.com/4MUXrwlDCE...
View ArticleTory pension bung for Clinicians
Here is the statement from the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care – Matt Hancock. I have agreed to support this proposal from NHS England and NHS Improvement for reasons of urgent...
View Article“The party’s over – Boris Johnson”– it’s time for the Prime Minister to...
Tories lose North Shropshire seat they held for nearly 200 years https://t.co/b2r5Iwd2f2 — BBC News (UK) (@BBCNews) December 17, 2021 The North Shropshire byelection is a telling off to Boris Johnson....
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