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Originally Posted by jimbuna
It really annoys me that a political party (Lib Dems) with somewhere in the region of 55 seats (they're worst return in many a year) have so much influence on a subject that impacts on so many people that never voted for them) 
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Eehm, not to be a pain, but first of all, you have different pensions ages for women and men in the UK? I find that kind of weird in the first place.
And it's 60 for women? Well I'm sorry but raising that age only seems a good thing to me.
Over here the pension age just got raised a year ago. Yes there were some protests, but the bill made it through parliament. And I got to say, it's only natural. In the 50's, a very famous social-democrat prime-minister here introduced pensions, a standard pension for elderly people and general health care. Socialist as he was, even
he said (back in the fifties, that is) that the pension age should rise to compensate for the increased life-expectancy.
The only problem I see is that it's now going to be introduced in one large operation. And that it's going to affect the generation
after the baby-boomers. Not the baby-boomers themselves.
They should have started slightly increasing it from the get-go. Still, it's now been raised from 65 to 67. I have no objection to that. I have some objections against other cut-backs, but the increase of pension age? It's only a logical consequence of increasing life-expectancy.
I can tell you this much though; it's going to be a way bigger problem in Southern Europe. The pension ages in Italy, Spain and Greece are much lower. And those countries are faced with an even larger ageing of the population.