First a gift – then some advice to MPs

A SUM of £10,000 is a lot of money. Both Linda, my wife, and I have our own home and everything we need.

In our 70s, we are fairly comfortable and think the world of our family – two sons, two daughters-in-law and three granddaughters.

So I would share £9,000 of the £10,000 between the granddaughters to help them get on the housing ladder. They are all currently at university and it would be great to eventually see them able to put down a deposit towards buying a home.

With the

John Benson

Pension campaigner and former

employee of ASW Steel (who fought successfully for greater pension protection in the early 2000s) remaining £1,000, I would get a booklet printed spelling out in black and white how thousands of pensioners like myself were cruelly robbed of a big chunk of their company pension by flawed Government legislation. I would then send it to the 650 MPs at Westminster to teach them the meaning of pension fairness. Any money left over would go to charity.