So much for the motto "we're all in it together"

Do they realise that the average pension in local government today is 73 per week and that this drops to 38 a week if you look at women only?

If you add in the much-maligned civil service pensions, the average is still just 86 a week.

The average pension for a female NHS worker is 96 a week, but the median is much less than 3,500 a year (67 a week).

These pensions are not unaffordable – they're unacceptably low. So why is this Con-Dem government attacking them?

A recent Pensions Watch study of 346 directors from 102 of the UK's top companies found that they are set to earn a yearly average pension of 201,700 (3,879 a week).

The most senior directors had average pension funds of 5.2m, yielding an annual pension forecast of 6,411 a week.

These, of course, are the same people who, having accrued generous terms in a final salary scheme, are now denying the same benefits to their employees.

So much for the Tory motto "we're all in it together".

By all means let's have a debate about public – and private – pensions, but not Ministers and super-rich city and corporate executives grabbing the cream and telling everyone else their rations have to be reduced.

Stan Nattrass,

North Street,

Wick

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