Fed up and angry

[PAULINE]

???I have just joined this site a few minutes ago.
We need a voice,nobody listens to us.
Thanks IanC,i will check out ur link.

[PAULINE]

WHY CANT WE AS AGROUP ORGANISE OURSELVES,& LOBBY THE GOVERMENT
COME ON WHAT DO U ALL HAVE TO SAY?

[Faye]

I belong to the National Pensioners Party, they are hoping for me to set up a branch in the South West.
If anyone is interested the committee will be meeting in London on the 22nd October at the House of Commons.  Initially they will meet up at Central Hall Westminster.
If you require further details contact: Barry Hodgson on the website.
www.pensionersparty.co.uk
We are growing in numbers daily, but we do need more people to join and have a say on how this current government is adversely affecting your lives.
Best wishes
Faye Elliott

[Faye]

Hi everyone, just to let you know that I have decided to stand at the local elections, next May, as an Independent.
I will be under the flag of 'pensioners rights'.
Please take time out to look at my website.
http://pensionersrights.co.uk
My intention is to be the voice of the 'forgotten generation'.
Grey Power can be very powerful, we must never give up the fight for our rights!

[geum]

Hi All,
I looked here a year or more ago, but found traffic was rather slow.  However, Googling 'pensioners' brought me here to find some fellow angries - about time!

I chair West Somerset Seniors' Forum, so I know something of our frustrations, especially now as the gov can find many billions to bail out bankers, but we have to waituntil "the economy is suitable" after 2012 before pensions get a rise.

Our biggest problem is we are divided - so many pensioner party groups.  So lets collaborate more. There are about 400 local forums known to Help the Aged.Some of these in the south west have joined to form county groups (e.g. Cornwall, Dorset, Somerset) and they have also joined together in the South West Seniors' Network - approaching 40 Forums with well over 23,000 members on their books.

I set up a demo website a year or so ago for which we are in the process of planning extensions. A problem many of our forum officer are finding is that there re only a few (sometimers only one or two) who choose to be active,so the work gets heavy.  However, though the swsn.org.uk website is fairly quiet, links still work and you can find if there is a forum near by via a map of the Region.

I suggest we develop contacts between the groups that already exist as a way of mounting a fight back - we don't all have to be in the same group, just keep in touch and vote the same way when the chance comes.

By the way, a local group (Taunton) today met to set up a drive to replace Council Tax with modified general taxation and we (Somerset) hope soon to get a joint statement with the County Council deploring C Tax, just as Devon Pensioners have already done.

Now I'm off to look at the Pensioner Party websites.  Do have a look at swsn.org.uk or contact us for more info.

Jim K (webmaster)

[Faye]

Hello fellow 'grey voters', the name the government gives to us.
Please check out my website.
http://www.pensionersrights.co.uk
I have listed some ideas on there, please feel free to add your own.
I expect many of you received a letter recently telling you of a 'rise' in your pension.....well I have a whole 28p to spend, I am thinking of investing it, for I think it would be irrational to spend this all at once.  Seriously, what on earth can you buy for 28p? 

This is an insult when you compare this sum to the bonuses the Bank bosses gave to themselves after the taxpayers bailed them out.
I get the distinct impression that Gordon Brown has at the back of his mind that Labour will lose the next election, so his intention is to leave this country bankrupt for any future government to sort out.  The next generation will be paying off the countries debt for many years to come.

So much for Labour being the party of the people, this government since coming to power, has done nothing but pander to the wealthy, disregarding the people of this country who fought, and many losing their lives in the second world war to ensure that Britain enjoyed FREEDOM, what a way for governments to show their gratitude to these heros!

Don't give up on your principles, your dignity and rights.
Faye Elliott

[stewjan]

We need a leader so where do we find one, could we just unite and see if we can put some pressure where it is needed

[Oldtimer]

Its great to hear fellow pensioners wanting to fight back.
Many of the participants of this forum voice their concerns.
The time has come for us all not to be the  FORGOTTEN ONES!!!

[Oldtimer]

The proper link for the Pensioners Party is www.thepensionersparty.org
Well worth a look?
 

[Oldtimer]

Come on all you regulars join in and support?

[Angelo]

Of course you will remember not so long ago when the economy was going great guns,
Politicians saying how good it was and how we were all benefiting.
I don't remember the last bit do you ? in fact my standard of living went down, not up.
So where was my share of the good times, I allways seem to get my share of the bad ones right enough !

[xetog]

Oldtimer.  I have at your bidding, just joined the Pensioners Party.  Only as an associate at present to see what it's all about, but will be happy to progress to full member if I like it.  I have a great interest in politics and this could prove of great interest to me.
M.

[Oldtimer]

Thanks Xetog I veiw with interest and lets see what developes?