Quote Originally Posted by Gofer Blue View Post
I am one of these. However I will gladly accept the 8.5% rise, although I am acutely conscious that it is the current working population who effectively are paying me via their tax/NI contributions and not H.M. Government per se. (A fact which many people on benefits in general sometimes fail to recognise!).
I was talking to a friend from Austria and not knowing our system she said 'our system is x, it means that we pay for our parents and our children pay for us', it made me realise how infantilised the UK population was been, this delusion of 'i paid in' is so widespread because people have been lied to.