Wanted: visionary to solve pensions crisis

gosling's grouse

Let me make this clear from the start, this is not a party political or an anti-Labour Party rant, i...

Let me make this clear from the start, this is not a party political or an anti-Labour Party rant, it's an anti-politicians rant. I work on the basis that most of them are not particularly nice people and the ones that are (witness Frank Field) never get taken seriously when it matters. When David Blunkett bowed to the inevitable and resigned from Work and Pensions, Alan Pickering, he of the Pickering pensions report, echoed what many in the financial services business must have been thinking. To paraphrase an interview he gave to BBC Radio, Pickering asked: "What kind of business would h...