This is the video of a sensible discussion debating the value of having a pension commission
Holidays had taken many of those we wanted there abroad. Steve (the boss) had been in Malta, Bryn (the Lord) was in Spain and Andy Young was in Annecy and out of reach
I am pleased to have had Andy Agethangelou in the audience, a kind plaudit for Pension PlayPen, he wants us to write something for someone (fat chance Andy- we’re all on holiday!)
Thanks too to old friend Alan Chaplin who has introduced me to FT whizz columnist and editor Stephen Bush. We want more cute minds like Steve to speak. There aren’t many as good as him and so young!
The Debate
Unfortunately , we lost our chair to Spanish internet failure- early on. We didn’t quite get to the central contention, that this is either a meaningful Pension Commission or a La La Savings Convention.
Having sat on a couple of hideous marketing events for banks and insurance companies, purporting to be about “adequacy”, I will not take my devil’s mask off, we cannot wast our time worrying why the self-employed and ethnic and spiritual minorities don’t get excited about mainstream workplace pensions. What do we want to do – make everyone the same? Think before you homogenise behaviour.
The session was good on this , but it would be with Margaret Snowden on it, she is not the kind of person uber- liberals understand , but those who have been ripped off know that Margaret’s on their side.
The video also gives us a new Tom McPhail, at last free from retail capture, he is speaking with the kind of authority that suggests a later life career in politics – fancy it Tom?
We had Arun Muralidhar on the video too, he was as bright as anyone and he restrains his salesmanship till being taunted into a Selfie rant right at the end! He’d earned the right to be what we need more!
Great contributions from Padraig Floyd on being self-employed and tough stuff from Peter Cameron Brown in the chat.
Thanks Bryn, pre-dating any Commission
There are very few good things going on in August, I see most of the usual events have packed it in but we had a great crowd and many dialling in from holidays.
Which brings me the Lord of Brixton, Bryn Davies! How glad we should be to have you in the House of Lords for the next 18 months Bryn, thanks for being with us, for contributing though not quite every minute! I feared you had been Brexited but I was wrong – you were great!
A Pension not a La La Savings commission please! (video)
