So you think you deserve a state pension?

gosling's grouse

When the soldiers went off to fight in the First and Second World Wars it was with a promise that...

When the soldiers went off to fight in the First and Second World Wars it was with a promise that when they returned it would be to a better country to reward their bravery. And so governments between the wars and in the 1950s built what we now describe as the Welfare State, including the state pension. That Welfare State was a just reward for laying their lives on the line for freedom. What reward could Margaret Thatcher offer soldiers sent off to the Falklands when they returned? Probably just unemployment. And what can Tony Blair offer those coming back from Iraq? Nothing, but wh...