David Robbins is right to demand that WASPI stops being kicked about like a football – scoring random goals but not in a coherent way.
Today’s Conservative line on “waspi” seems to be:
– saying money should be no object if there was an injustice;
– not saying whether or not an injustice had been suffered (just pointing out that what some senior Labour figures had said on the subject).What happened to the… pic.twitter.com/ruUQi9Ecba
— David Robbins (@David_J_Robbins) January 29, 2026
Time to move on from the past to the future?
As my actuarial friend in Brighton comments on the past politics
Waspi was like GMP
Something which got trapped in a legal quagmire and wasted a lot of time needlessly.
and the future – pensioner taxation
I hope the government soon decides that pensioners should at least pay the NHS element of NI contributions.
National Insurance has nothing to do with state pensions or the NI Fund. Nor indeed the NHS.
It is purely a tax not paid by people over SPA nor on pension income below SPA.
