Tag Archives: Jeremy Corbyn
More in common with each other…
I enjoy disagreeing with Steve Groves but I like agreeing with him more. That’s a very simplistic analysis by your standard. 1. Corbyn lost by 3m votes, Starmer won by 3m. 2. Partly as there were fewer parties in the … Continue reading
Bryn Davies ; Our new voice in the Lords
There were three peerages created yesterday for services to pensions , all three deserved. Frank Field and Helena Morrissey are high profile and fly their own flags, Bryn is less well known but no less deserving. Bryn’s career Brinley Howard … Continue reading
Posted in actuaries, advice gap, age wage, pensions
Tagged Actuary, Bryn Davies, ILEA, Jeremy Corbyn, pensions
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Elections destroy trust and time
By this time tomorrow, I will have cast my vote in what is being called the most important election in a generation. Of course it isn’t any such thing, it is just an adjustment to the dial if power. At … Continue reading
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Tagged Boris Johnson, General Election 2019, Jeremy Corbyn, pensions, Politics
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What Mr Corbyn taught us yesterday
Yesterday was the first parliamentary test of Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership. He created history by crowd-sourcing 6 questions from over 40,000 submitted him by people like you and me. Because these questions were from ordinary people, they were treated with respect. … Continue reading
Posted in pensions
Tagged Angela Eagle, Claridges Hotel, Corbyn, David Cameron, Iain Anderson, Jeremy Corbyn, Politics, question time
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Why Corbynism is radical (and what it means for pensions)
The most tweeted action of Corbyn’s first 24 hours as Labour leader was to choose to go to a constituency engagement rather than go on the Andrew Marr show. For Labour apparatchnick schooled in two decades of Blairite PR and … Continue reading
Posted in consultant, pensions, Pensions Regulator, Politics
Tagged advice, Andrew Marr, British politicians, Chris Siers, Con Keating, corporate risk, David Pitt-Watson, dc pensions, Financial services, George Kirrin, Government, Hilary Salt, Jeremy Corbyn, John Mcdonnell, Labour, Labour leader, National Employment Savings Trust, pension, Pension new, pension playpen, Pension Regulator, pensions, Retirement, Ros Altmann
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Corbyn – Pietas and the Malcolm Tucker Litmus Test
I’ve been thinking about Jeremy Corbyn but I’ve had nothing to say, because I didn’t get what was going on and didn’t know how to divide hype from reality. Now I know the reality, 60% of the people who voted … Continue reading
Posted in jeremy corbyn, Personality, Politics
Tagged Burnham, Chirst, Corbyn, Jeremy Corbyn, Labour Party, Malcolm, Malcolm Tucker, omnishambles, Pietas, Tucker
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