UK. Ruth Wishart: Principle on which we base the state pension is flawed
By Ruth Wishart
YOU remember good old Iain. Chap who used to be leader of the Conservative Party till they found out he was pretty useless at it, so they got rid of him. The bloke who was put in charge of benefit reform and took years to come up with that model of equity and clarity: Universal Credit. Which turned out to create more anomalies than it was set up to solve. So they got rid of him. Well, in fairness, he threw himself overboard. (In his new book on the Labour Party and all its works David Kogan says that while it might seem to resemble Game of Thrones, the Tories do a pretty good turn as the Borgias!) But Mr Duncan Smith, for it is he, is still the founder and, ahem, brains behind the Centre For Social Justice (CSJ), which some folks claim is a tank which does some solid thinking about what currently ails the policy devising world. And IDS’s tank has a brand new thought. The CSJ, in its caring, sharing way, has decided that older workers are being discriminated against. Here they are, fit and healthy and raring to go, and the employment market place is cruelly refusing to recognise their skills.
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