What’s wrong with the general public these days. They are no longer satisfied with the scraps that the Royal Barons toss them. Perhaps the scraps should just be tossed in the garbage and the common fold can live of nothing! (This goes for the entire world, bit Just Great Britain.)

Yeah, just because you paid into a pension fund and didn’t expect it to be raided for Other, Better Governmental Things, doesn’t mean you should complain, right? Right?

(See also: US SSI—same deal. We’ll take the money and give you “Government Bonds”. Because IOU’s are as good as cash.)

And if you have spiraling unemployment, of course you need to keep those with jobs working longer: it just makes sense!