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Thread #165776   Message #3983319
Posted By: Steve Shaw
20-Mar-19 - 07:55 AM
Thread Name: BS: Irish V Irish V British & the Famine
Subject: RE: BS: Irish V Irish V British & the Famine
I'd remind you that a state pension has to be earned. You do that by going to work and paying NI contributions over many years. Unless you've done that, you won't get enough pension to sustain you in a cardboard box under Waterloo Bridge. As long as you've paid up, the pension is yours as of right, irrespective of your political views or your nationalistic allegiances, according to the rules that apply to everyone equally from James Dyson right down to Tommy Robinson, as with entitlement to health care as set via reciprocal agreements with the EU. Actually, the UK state pension is one of the worst in the western world, an interesting though perhaps irrelevant fact in the present context.

It behoves you to desist from throwing barbs along these lines at people who are living within agreed rules and who are abiding by the law, simply because you don't like their political stance. That's childish, Karen, and I think you know it.