Denmark’s just shoved its pension age up to 70, and mark my words, it won’t be long before our lot in Westminster start copying them. You can smell it coming, can’t you? They’re already softening us up with little language tricks – like the BBC suddenly calling pensions “benefits.” Benefits! As if we’re talking about handouts for skivers, not the money we’ve all paid into for decades. Don’t kid yourself – that wording’s no accident. It’s all about making pensions sound like something they can chop without a second thought.
The UK’s pension age is slowly creeping up. They’ll keep nudging it higher, year after year, till we’re all clocking in at 70. But here’s the thing: how many of us are even making it to 70 these days? Between the cost-of-living chaos, zero-hour gigs, and stress that’d grinds you down, people are dropping earlier. So what’s the endgame? More workers paying in, fewer pensioners drawing out. Neat little profit for the Treasury, innit?
Speaking of profit – where’s all that cash actually going? It’s funneled straight into contracts for mates and cushy public sector payouts. Meanwhile, the rest of us are told to tighten our belts, work longer, and pray we don’t keel over before retirement.
They’ll spin it as “sustainability” or “fairness for younger generations.” But let’s be honest – when’s the last time a politician’s idea of “fair” lined up with yours? We’re not numbers on a spreadsheet. We’re people who’ve grafted our whole lives, only to get told we’ve got to graft even longer. And for what? A pension that’s being rebranded as a “benefit” – like it’s some charity case, not our bloody right.
So here’s the question: how long before we’re Denmark? Five years? Ten? There is no doubt they will shove it through sooner rather than later. They will not admit to the real human cost of an older retirement age: exhausting people, crushing morale, and pushing us to toil without end. It is an insult to everyone who has worked their entire lives. We are fed up with the hollow excuses, high taxes, and empty promises. We know exactly what they are doing, and frankly, it is disgusting.
