John Ward June 25, 2017 Uncategorized, WASPI PENSIONERS NEED TO BE HUNTING CHEETAHS

WASPI ALERT: as long as ethical knuckle-draggers with birdbrain logic can tweet rubbish about the SPA scandal, retired British women will suffer injustice.

crasstwat

The moronically divisive tweet above appeared on Twitter over the weekend. Mr Groves (who looks on his homepage like a 40-something) could be forgiven…..if it wasn’t clear that he is ‘ex-CEO of Partnership Group, ex-NED Guardian Financial Services, ex-NED at ERC. Current marathon runner, angel investor, PE adviser, Chair of Retirement Bridge.’

God help civilisation if the Chairman of Retirement Bridge is this densely ignorant on page 1 of The Book of Demographic Justice.

I’m not going to linger long on a banal and superficial “opinion” with all the profundity of post-drought Saharan puddles. The step by step deconstruction unfolds as follows:

The missing overture: A promise is a promise. The promise was broken with only the last 20 years of a 60 year term to go, after which blatant lies were told by Westminster and Whitehall about how this had been communicated to Waspi women. Had this taken place in the private sector, the culprits would have gone to jail.
The multiple of payback is as relevant to the argument as Groves’s self-image as an halo-bearing angel. If politicians are so innately thick as to promise such a return without setting up a invested pension fund, their graves deserve to be dug up and their spine-free bones scattered to the four winds.
Waspis and their supporters care not a marathon-runner’s self-inflicted ankle injury that 3/7ths of the multiple were paid back “by the young”. In their time when young, the Waspis did the same for their older recipients: it’s how the system works, you witlessly ageist pillock.
The missing epilogue: Waspis are being asked to accept embezzlement of a huge chunk of their 40-year NI payment record for the following amoral and indefensible reasons. (1) They’re easy meat for DWP meatheads (2) Projects like Connecting for Health, the EU, the Humber Bridge and a hundred other ego-projects pissed away the money to no purpose (3) They’re neither men or Whitehall civi servants – all of whose larger pension entitlements are equally unfunded (4) the Waspi Politburo is about as worldly, noisy and radical as as a 95 year-old fundamentalist Trappist monk.

I tweeted recently about similarly cycloptic thinking by a former Chair of the NHA, no less. But the twat-tweet at the head of this piece from six miles-per-hour thinker Steve Groves makes the NHA bigot look like a viable candidate for Mastermind 2017.

I make no apology at all for the fury of this piece. I am sick to death of the goggle-eyed, self-interested drivel poured out by DWP apologists who – half the time at least – have only their own greedy self-interest at heart. It might be useful, in fact, if Groves could reassure us all that he has no such agenda. Then we could be sure that he acted solely from limited intelligence when deciding to launch his “humble opinion” into the Twitter space.

As opinions go, it has a lot to be humble about.

Earlier re Waspi at The Slog: State embezzlement

9Comments

Add yours

1

Panopticon on June 29, 2017 at 12:29 am

Broderick,
They seem to have taken down this piece of genius, but if you’re quick you should find the entire clip here when you scroll down the page:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/06/26/genius-video-shows-theresa-may-monty-pythons-holy-grail/

LikeLike
2

dofornow on June 26, 2017 at 12:33 pm

Off pis. but on my chest!
John
I just cant keep up with the bollocks any more : It looks to me they have had one hell of a fright this weekend …White folk out on the street……….. demonstrating ..
nil reporting by the BBC.
A tiny glimmer got through , An ethnic British lady was interview on the street … regarding her refusal to move out of her potential London Roman Kandle .
Quite rational about this. “ I feel safer in my accommodation than moving “..
Her rational on this was “ They put the cladding up whilst we were in suite, why not do the same now taking it down”?.
The “feeling safer comment” was not picked up on by the news blender!
It is my opinion the PTB must have got hold of info that some “free shopping was in the air”, if so, the panic evacuation with free dosh on offer was a good move.
Would have even caught Rommel off guard!
The primitives now a days have communication at hand ..the like of which, has never been seen before’!
Salford and Manchester seem to be copping quite well , without pissing into the wind.
dofornow

LikeLike
3

bill40 on June 26, 2017 at 11:34 am

WASPI, where angels fear to tread, I keep well out of this one. Pensions needed reforming, this is a reform so the unthinking all swing behind it. It seems to be a very British trait to accept sacrifice as some form od patriotic duty.

I like the way the French and Italians do things, the latter having just driven a coach and horses through the European Bank Resolution Directive, in the national interest.

Oh well, your next challenge is to interview David Malone I’m told by Roger Lewis hope that goes ahead. The 2nd part of my blog on Roger’s interview is here. https://bill40.wordpress.com/2017/06/25/malone-ungarbled-pt-2

LikeLike
4

broderickcrawford on June 26, 2017 at 9:24 am

Not Blackadder……..

LikeLike
5

rogerglewis on June 26, 2017 at 3:54 am

Reblogged this on MUSO MUSINGS ON FATHERHOOD THEORY AND STUFF and commented:
rogerglewis
June 26, 2017 at 3:53 am
Your comment is awaiting moderation.
What strikes Me about the Waspi pensions fraud, because fraud is what it is, is not the fraud which we expect from this Financial Services Regime. But the implicit assumption that pensions and National Insurance are funded from interest or dividend interest from past premiums.

You mention that the DWP pensions attaching to their Functionaries are similarly unfunded and that is a stab in the direction of the lacuna I see in the whole question.

This question returns back to the “Magic Money Tree”, money is just an IOU it is a claim voucher, a Rain Check, a receipt for value surrendered now for future use. The best explanation for me appeared a year or two back in an Article explaining the unspoken and Taboo issue that no one would broach in the Swiss Referendum on Universal Basic Income.

Here is a link and the Main Meat of its Argument.

” ´However, the nearly universal misunderstanding of money is a major obstacle. For too long we’ve allowed a small coterie of bankers and “court economists” to hold the secrets and “tutor” us. So, it’s time for total openness.
First, regarding the claim that the Swiss proposal would’ve been too costly, what’s entirely omitted from the discussion is that the proposal (and similar proposals elsewhere) appear to call for re-distribution of existing money—taking money from certain sectors through taxation and re-allocating it to the people-at-large.
The implication is that the money supply is basically static and that re-distributing limited funds would require tough budget decisions—sparking tax hikes and associated spending increases in several areas; hence the claim “costs too much.”
But a successful basic-income plan can and must be based on the creation of new money, or “distributism,” not on reshuffling existing money, which is “re-distributism.” That’s the “state secret” that no one wants to touch.
The issuance of new money needs to happen to overcome the huge “gap” between today’s paltry purchasing power and the massive mountain of debt and the towering totality of prices on all available goods and services. We have full stores and empty wallets. (Ideally and importantly, governments should reclaim their interest-free money-creation rights and forbid private central banks from creating money any longer).”´´

http://leconomistamascherato.blogspot.se/2016/07/basic-income-lets-name-real-problems.html

It all really comes back to Debt and Leverage, The whole debate is founded upon a basic logical mistake of what Money is, The conflicting functions of money and the inherent conflict of interest that Financialised Capitalism as Poacher and Gamekeeper reserves to its self.

LikeLike
6

rogerglewis on June 26, 2017 at 3:53 am

What strikes Me about the Waspi pensions fraud, because fraud is what it is, is not the fraud which we expect from this Financial Services Regime. But the implicit assumption that pensions and National Insurance are funded from interest or dividend interest from past premiums.

You mention that the DWP pensions attaching to their Functionaries are similarly unfunded and that is a stab in the direction of the lacuna I see in the whole question.

This question returns back to the “Magic Money Tree”, money is just an IOU it is a claim voucher, a Rain Check, a receipt for value surrendered now for future use. The best explanation for me appeared a year or two back in an Article explaining the unspoken and Taboo issue that no one would broach in the Swiss Referendum on Universal Basic Income.

Here is a link and the Main Meat of its Argument.

” ´However, the nearly universal misunderstanding of money is a major obstacle. For too long we’ve allowed a small coterie of bankers and “court economists” to hold the secrets and “tutor” us. So, it’s time for total openness.
First, regarding the claim that the Swiss proposal would’ve been too costly, what’s entirely omitted from the discussion is that the proposal (and similar proposals elsewhere) appear to call for re-distribution of existing money—taking money from certain sectors through taxation and re-allocating it to the people-at-large.
The implication is that the money supply is basically static and that re-distributing limited funds would require tough budget decisions—sparking tax hikes and associated spending increases in several areas; hence the claim “costs too much.”
But a successful basic-income plan can and must be based on the creation of new money, or “distributism,” not on reshuffling existing money, which is “re-distributism.” That’s the “state secret” that no one wants to touch.
The issuance of new money needs to happen to overcome the huge “gap” between today’s paltry purchasing power and the massive mountain of debt and the towering totality of prices on all available goods and services. We have full stores and empty wallets. (Ideally and importantly, governments should reclaim their interest-free money-creation rights and forbid private central banks from creating money any longer).”´´

http://leconomistamascherato.blogspot.se/2016/07/basic-income-lets-name-real-problems.html

It all really comes back to Debt and Leverage, The whole debate is founded upon a basic logical mistake of what Money is, The conflicting functions of money and the inherent conflict of interest that Financialised Capitalism as Poacher and Gamekeeper reserves to its self.

LikeLike
7

Mark Deacon on June 26, 2017 at 3:28 am

Can hear the tone of anger in the sarcasm of your words Mr Ward.
Excellently conveyed.

LikeLiked by 2 people
8

Hieronimusb on June 26, 2017 at 12:33 am

Anyone who tries to take on the DWP has my heartfelt sympathy and support, I have just received notification of the next court date in my long running battle with these callous overbearing humanoids. They may have opposable anterior forelimb-appendages, visible spectrum-binocular vision, and biomechanic plantigrade-bipedalism, but that’s where the similarity ends.

LikeLiked by 1 person
9

Jay Gan on June 26, 2017 at 12:09 am

“I make no apology at all for the fury of this piece”.

Seems you will be in good company John…

James 5:4
Behold, the pay of the laborers who mowed your fields, and which has been withheld by you, cries out against you; and the outcry of those who did the harvesting has reached the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.

LikeLiked by 1 person