Leave the over-60s alone. We earned our pensions Lesson for Carney
WHAT has Sarah Vine got against people in their 60s (Mail)? I know I am old, but I dye my hair and try to look the best I can. I don’t drink a bottle of wine a day, but I go out at weekends and have some fun. Surely you should be able to enjoy yourself when you have worked all your life? My eyesight is not what it used to be, but other than that I am fine. So please don’t shout at me or treat me as if I am some sort of idiot who doesn’t understand what is going on. You won’t want to be treated that way when you grow old. When my generation was young, life was very different. There was no hot water on tap. Instead, there was a tin bath hanging on a nail, which was brought in at the weekend for the family bath — everyone shared the same water. It took ages to fill using kettles and saucepans. The toilet was outside, which was a nightmare during the winter. No central heating, so the coal fire had to be raked and laid on winter mornings. No fridge or supermarkets, so shopping was done daily in the local shops. No vacuum cleaner, no TV, no car, no washing machine or tumble dryer and no microwave. If you had a baby, there were no disposable nappies; they were terry towelling and you soaked them in a bucket and then hand-washed them. I remember getting sore knuckles trying to get them pristine. Then you would wring them out and hang them on the line. In the winter they would freeze solid and you would have to defrost them on the fireguard. I worked from the age of 15 to 65, so feel I have earned my pension. I took my children to school or to the child-minder before work. I walked everywhere as I didn’t have a car. Sometimes I would be doing the ironing at midnight. I am sorry that youngsters today can’t look forward to a good pension pot, but that is not my fault; it is the way things have gone. People today have a much easier lifestyle, and I am glad as that is what my generation wanted for our children: to have the things we didn’t have. Perhaps we were wrong.
JANICE WOOD, Sidcup, Kent. ignore the democratic UK vote for Brexit.
I. HENDERSON, Aberdeen.