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No! Pension Minister!
Did she jump – was she pushed? Speaking on Vanessa Feltz’s LBC show this morning (goo.gl/LQ99b8 1:17:20-1:31:21) , Ros Altmann said it was a bit of both. The events since her “resignation” suggest that the role of Pensions Minister … Continue reading
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Tagged Brexit, Business, Charlotte Clark, DWP, Penny Mordaunt, Retirement, Ros Altmann, The Pensions Regulator, TPR, Treasury
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Time for a clear out
Big decisions like BREXIT kelp declutter the mind. Some of the most powerful thought-pieces I have read from Nigel Wilson, Steve Kelly and other business leaders have been about the need to return our focus to the fundamentals , the … Continue reading
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Tagged accountants, Brexit, Business, clutter, Nigel Wilson, pension, pensions, Retirement, Steve Kelly
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BREXIT – big business hysteria has to stop – Stephen Kelly – Sage.
The tale of Chicken Little was a Kelly bedtime story favourite – and in recent days in post-referendum Britain, some of our leaders seem to have taken a lead from the famous farmyard fable. In the story, Chicken Little … Continue reading
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Tagged Brexit, chicken Little, Economy, EU, June 23rd, Sage, SME, Stephen Kelly
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Brexit not AExit
Disruption of auto-enrolment happened way before the recent referendum and is set to continue as one of the many unintended consequences of a leave vote. The ambitious legislative reforms put in place by the coalition’s pension minister Steve Webb … Continue reading
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Tagged Aexit, autoenrolment, Brexit, Brexit AExit Pensions, Business, DWP, Government, pensions, Retirement, Ros Altmann, Treasury
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Back to business
It will be interesting, when the Pensions Regulator comes to publish its statistics, to see whether the past few days will represent a downward spike in engagement over auto-enrolment. Certainly our stats at Pension PlayPen suggest that less decisions … Continue reading
The great austerity experiment is over
Tucked away on my news feed is a report of a speech made in Manchester by the architect of “austerity”, George Osborne. For those of us who have enjoyed the prosperity that our economic recovery has brought, austerity may seem … Continue reading
Sarah Vine and Lady Macbeth
The radio reports a leaked email from Mrs Gove to Mr Gove that has a touch of Lady Macbeth about it. “Beware Johnson, beware Dacre and Murdoch”. The positioning of the career of Michael Gove above the interests of the country, … Continue reading
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Tagged Brexit, Cameron, Michael Gove, Politics, Referendum, Sarah Vine
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Meditation XVII – John Donne (PJ Harvey)
Well done PJ Harvey for reading this out at Glastonbury. PERCHANCE he for whom this bell tolls may be so ill, as that he knows not it tolls for him; and perchance I may think myself so much better than … Continue reading
The Coalition worked- this doesn’t!
A tale of two Governments In 2010, after a shock result, Britain found itself Governed by a ConLib coalition. No one gave it much chance of working but it di, The Clegg/Cameron coalition brought considerable benefit to the country and … Continue reading
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Tagged Brexit, Cameron, Clegg, EU, pensions, Politician, Referendum, Retirement, Steve Webb
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Sorry tales from the riverbank.
I am on the river at last and Lady Lucy is in good shape for her five day Henley escapade. I had thought that escaping to Hurley and the Thames to have put behind me the tension from the referendum, … Continue reading