I followed that advice and the resulting private pension is worth less than 1/3 of the state one…
The triple lock is intended to drag the UK state pension up from being close to the worst in the Western world. It must practically be the worst when you look at the cost of living in the UK.It’s basically a slow recovery plan with a needed life ( as it is very slow recovery) meant to survive several governments to do its work.
I don’t understand why government pension rate is so much less for pensioners who retired before April 2016 - I would have thought older pensioners needed the same or more than younger ones
That was not such good advice as you can’t have (or at any rate pay into) a private pension as well as a company scheme.
It was a promise made by “girly” Cameron in the election campaign to oust Gordon Brown’s GOATS from office after GB offered a miserly pence increase to UK State pensions - “never again!” was Cameron’s clarion call… until Doris was installed in Downing street perhaps? He respects no promises, international treaties, not even his own “promises”, nada…
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We have a SIP and our state pensions in UK.
We need the triple lock, perhaps BoJo needs reminding just how many of his voters in the SE will be affected if he breaks that promise.
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Job vacancy? New Foreign Secretary required to take over from school boy. Knowledge of geography (obviously) not important.
In today’s Times
“The evidence presented on which the original decision was taken was based on the prevalence of the so-called Beta variant, in particular on the Réunion bit of France.”
When it was pointed out that Réunion was a long way from mainland France, [furiously back-peddling] Raab said: “It’s not the distance that matters, it’s the ease of travel between different component parts of every individual country.”
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It should be the forethought that travels between brain and mouth.
According to the Guardian, the irony is that the island of Réunion is on the UK governments amber list, and so you don’t need to quarantine when travelling from there directly. You couldn’t make it up.
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place your bets on which Minister of the Crown is intending a holiday there…
Probably the Minister for foreign Affairs.
No bl**dy wonder UK pensioners’ winter fuel allowance got nicked then. This lot wouldn’t have got near ‘O’ Level Geography.
You couldn’t, just couldn’t make it up.
It’s a first world war fighter aeroplane or a troublemaking, unelected tosser (or tosserette). Take your pick, they both cause(d) serious casualties,
Playing chicken now.
Boris Johnson will not meet Nicola Sturgeon during Scotland trip
Absolutely pathetic
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Amber-plus list: Why were extra travel restrictions imposed on France?
Covid travel: France no longer amber-plus and green list expands
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Bloody finally!
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It could all change again tomorrow if Macron does something to upset Bono 
Quick!!! While we’ve got them running, let’s remind the UK Press of the stupidity of the UK Government also using islands in places like the Indian ocean belonging to France, to say the temperatures are so high in snowbound winters in mainland France, that UK pensioners don’t need their winter fuel allowance. And as @Jane_Williamson pointed out, pensioners much further South in Palermo do get it.
It’s the ‘silly season’ right now for the UK Press. So perhaps another closely geographically related example of ridiculous miscalculations by the UK government mightn’t go amiss. They can even re-use the wonderful map by the BBC in your link.
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But they are easing the restrictions on India?