Any other pensioners here?

Not expecting you to excuse anything. *Explain*. But if you can't, no problem.

High rates of inequality (Gini etc.) are not inevitable and can be corrected - often are. The UK, as a 'developed' country, has some of the worst wealth inequality. Income inequality is merely spectacularly poor.

It's not 'part of the world' or in any way inevitable.

About £3k.

You could be right - it's just what I remember. It's an AVC/Prudential scheme, if that makes any difference.

My dad jumped on that bandwagon, a huge Thatcher fan. Lost almost all of an NHS dentist's pension by the time he retired about 20 years' ago.

It's hard to work through all the commie dogma but we are born equal* and have equal opportunities, but some people just won't pull their weight.

Sorry, I was slow on the uptake that day :-)

Well that isn't really true is it? You took the original concept and twisted it into a form which suited your views and approach to life. Your views are your own, I think most people here accept that, but when to pretend to speak on behalf of those you oppose... It isn't cricket.

I have merely noted how 'Just stop oil' 'Black Lives matter' 'Gender ideology' etc etc actually work.

1. Find a minority
2. Tell everyone that they are 'oppressed' and 'social injustice' and 'prejudice' is ruining their lives
3. Mount huge campaigns that end up making everyone dislike the advocates for simply getting in their faces.
4. Use this to claim the the prejudice they invented,m now actually exists
5. Split society into warring fragments over an entirely imaginary issue.
6. Announce that only a strong left wing (or sometimes right wing) anti democratic government can 'solve the problem' and create a 'fair society'

Its AgitProp 101. It was invented in Moscow, and exported to Cuba and then to the whole of the Western world.

It has wrought destruction and led to totalitarianism wherever it got significant hold