Hands off our pensions!

DAVID CAMERON would rather threaten pensioners with cuts to their retirement benefits than reduce the bloated foreign aid budget.

What a fool he is if he believes he can scare pensioners into supporting his side of the referendum debate. They have faced down bigger bullies than him and have the life experience to know what is good for our country.

TIM RAYMOND, Hythe, Kent. AFTER his threats of World War III backfired, David Cameron is now threatening that pensions will suffer should we vote to leave the EU. He is saying he cannot guarantee the socalled ‘triple lock’ rises will work if we are outside the EU.

It has not exactly helped pensions by being in the EU, with many having seen the value of the funds drop significantly, and some have lost these vital benefits all together, even though they had contributed for many years towards them.

Governments argue that the everrising retirement age is due to us all living longer, but in many cases it has more to do with folk being too poor to retire at 65.

Over the years we have seen numerous raids on pension pots by governments desperate for money to finance the latest EU brainwave or bailout. The evidence would suggest there is no more danger to the pensions by leaving the EU than shares in nuclear bunker firms rising through the roof due to high demand on Brexit.

WENDY REES, Newcastle, Staffs. SO DAVID CAMERON has enlisted Gordon Brown to scare pensioners. Could this be the same Gordon Brown who gave pensioners 10p rise in the old age pension one year?

And could this be the Gordon Brown who sold our gold reserves at a rockbottom price, so that when gold then hit its highest value ever, we didn’t have any.

Mrs P. HANN, Broadstone, Dorset. IT WAS the grey vote that put the Tories into power at the General Election, and there are enough of us to take them out of power if Cameron insists on being a bully and a fool.

JEM TUGWOOD, Worthing, W. Sussex.