I will not get my pension until I am 71

I HAVE recently been appauled at the suggestions of pensionable workers of my generation will be working until into our 70s and may not see our pensions, especially if they work manually.

The benefactors from this system are the current pension recipients and rightly so.

But the undercurrent this creates is that pensioners are receiving their payments via triple lock only to make a scheme to reduce further people’s retirements later on.

It is predicted I will not get a pension until 71 years old. The government are using voting apathy to manipulate their voters deals and by offering great deals for voting demographs now with regards pensions, while ignoring the apathetic groups that do not contest these policies at the ballot box, who have no faith in the poli- ticians that deliver them.

This is why the Government can get away with it. Simply divide and rule.

Furthermore many people in Hinckley are having another tax increase to pay for social care. Yet the council still refuses to stop claiming half a million for simply turning up to tax us more.

This I refer to the councillors expenses and allowances. And then there should be action in the chief executive and his staff. I belive this would raise close to £1m in four years and not make ONE SINGLE CUT TO THE FRONTLINE SERVICES...Carers, hospitals and facilities. All the councillors have to do is cut out the luncheons and trips to Rossini and we may believe we are all in this together!

While on the topic of hospitals, I like to point you in the direction of the Lib Dem’s campaign to save Hinckley and District Hospital and ask them to check the archives about this. It seems that when there were discussions about developing the hospital many years ago the current sitting Lib Cllrs rejected the plans for it? And now it is the flagship policy of David Bill and Michael Mullany to save the building.

Logically it is not fit for a modern hospital and must be used for another purpose. This can only happen though if the services offered are moved in Hinckley to the hospital on the outskirts.

If services cannot be guaranteed then the move should not happen until they can or Hinckley Hospital on Mount Road made fit for a modern hospital to continue working. Benn Moore, Hinckley Independent Clarendon Ward