Ah, but… oh, er…
Simple enough story in the papers today. It's quite obviously the case that workers can't be forced to retire after 65.
NOW THE RIGHT TO WORK PAST 65. Simple, really.
Except:
WORKERS CAN BE FORCED OUT AT 65. Nyurgh-nyurgh-nyer-nyer-nyurgh.
Oh, who knows which one is right? Who even cares? For once, I suppose, at least it's somehow comforting to know they can't both be wrong. Or maybe they can. Maybe the truth is somewhere in between. Maybe they don't give a shit. Maybe they both looked at the same piece of information and though: well, let's tell it like this. Maybe the Mail found out something the Express didn't. Maybe the Express found out what the Mail was doing, and decided to stick two fingers up to it. Maybe it doesn't matter. Maybe no-one cares at all. Maybe if you're 65 and approaching enforced retirement / a happy career of not being forced to quit, you've got more on your mind than spending nearly a quid of your hard-earned money getting two pretty much contradictory views of exactly the same thing.
Still, at least it's not about immigration. Unless they've managed to weave that in there somewhere. HARD-WORKING PENSIONERS NOT ALLOWED TO CARRY ON WORKING TILL THEY'RE DEAD / FORCED TO KEEP ON WORKING JUST TO KEEP THE BOILER RUNNING, AND IT'S ALL BECAUSE WE'RE GIVING HANDOUTS TO SPONGEING SWARTHY TYPES, YOU KNOW WHAT I'M ON ABOUT, AND THEY GET FREE HOUSES AND EVERYTHING, SOMEONE TOLD ME. Or something like that.
I don't know if these contradictory front pages - with a bonus Cheryl Cole and intrusion into family death for a bit of fun - make them look good, or bad. I don't really mind - so long as it's bad. I'm guessing it is bad, because it usually is.
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July 29th, 2010 - 01:06
This may be a clever marketing move by the Express. Look at the Mail’s frontpage headline, and turn the same topic into DOOMSDAY FEAR, whatever the reality.
Sure, it’s about as ethical as a real-life re-enactment of a Jimmy Carr joke, but if it boosts turnover, who gives a chimp?
July 29th, 2010 - 05:09
Both right. Mail is future, Express is now.
July 29th, 2010 - 08:32
The parasailing death one is a curious thing on the Mail site. All these Mail readers clamouring for more stringent health and safety regulations. Yoo cudden mayk idup!!
July 29th, 2010 - 09:11
I forget are we supposed to be booing Eastasia or Eurasia?
July 29th, 2010 - 12:24
I think they’ve somehow managed to both be right – almost what Richard said, but the legal ruling means that even in the future firms can individually decide their own cut-off point (whereas at the moment 65 is the automatic for all companies).
July 30th, 2010 - 08:52
So, from the department of unintended consquences, when the supply of jobs for young people dries up because folk in their 60s who will have an income anyway want to keep on working wait for the screaming headlines about youth unemployment.
August 2nd, 2010 - 12:27
Richard T – not quite.
1. We’re an ageing population and therefore therefore this is a response to the projections of number of workforce going forward.
2. There is not a fixed number of jobs.
3. What “income”? The State Pension? You have to formally retire to claim it. And, frankly, surely the Government will be quite happy with older people still paying into the Pension Fund with their NI, than actually drawing it out.
Of course, working *after* retirement is a completely different ball-game.
August 2nd, 2010 - 12:37
Actually – ignore this comment – point three is a load of bollocks!