Senior Moments

Sometimes, it is necessary to state the obvious. 

Along with the reduction in state pension entitlement, sometimes to zero, for people with any other kind of provision, the raising of the age to 75, which most poor men and very many poor women never see, is a device to avoid paying it at all.

Yet a sovereign state with its own free-floating fiat currency has as much of that currency as it chooses to issue to itself, and ample means for controlling any inflationary effects. Pensioners stimulate economic growth by spending their money.

When did any of this become controversial, especially as it is all taken for granted in other areas of policy? What have we become, that we think that people living longer is anything other than an achievement? 

Of course, the underlying solution to all of this is the Universal Basic Income. Another hung Parliament is coming, and we need our people to hold the balance of power in it. A new party is now in the process of registration.

I will stand for Parliament here at North West Durham even if I can raise only the deposit, which I could do by going pretty overdrawn, although that was not how I was brought up. Buy the book here.

I would still prefer to raise the £10,000 necessary to mount a serious campaign, but I am no longer making my candidacy conditional on having done so. Please email davidaslindsay@hotmail.com. Very many thanks.