Friday, February 10, 2012

Elderly Told: Go Back to Work and Downsize

THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: Elderly people should be encouraged to go back to work and move into smaller homes, one of David Cameron’s key advisers said last night.

David Halpern, a senior No.10 aide, said loneliness was a “more powerful predictor” of whether a pensioner would be alive for more than a decade than whether they smoked.

He also suggested that elderly people who did not move to smaller homes were contributing to the shortage of housing in England.

On an official visit to Sweden, the Prime Minister and some of his key advisers discussed radical plans on retirement with their Scandinavian counterparts.

Mr Cameron said he supported plans to increase the retirement age in line with life expectancy which could see workers remaining in employment until well into their seventies. » | Tim Ross, Political correspondent | Thursday, February 09, 2012

My comment:

So when is David Cameron going to downsize? And what about Samcam's father? He's got a pile in the country! He surely can't be using all the rooms in that mansion. Perhaps the authorities can relocate him to a council house somewhere. It will be big enough for him, according to Cameron.

Christ, I thought that the Labour governments we had were bad enough, but even that shower didn't have the balls to tell people to downsize.

What kind of a bloody Tory is this guy Cameron anyway? It sounds to me that he would be more at home in the Communist Party! Communists believe in such measures as sharing people's private homes with the less well off.

I never thought I'd live to see the day that a so-called Conservative politician, still less a Conservative prime minister, would suggest something so impertinent.

So, then, Cameron, lead by example, you Tory toff! Don't talk to the plebs as though they deserve less than you SOBs. You, young man, are heading for oblivion in the next election. Roll on the next election!
– © Mark


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