00:00 As for the retirement age, I don't know why they should have to keep bringing it up, raising
00:07 the age, right, because by the time people reach that age, right, most of them are not
00:12 going to make it. You know, they just, they just pass away. Or it's too much stress in
00:18 the world today.
00:19 I'm 79. I worked until I was 75. And if I hadn't been forcibly retired with my business
00:28 being sold from under my feet, I would have probably still been working now. You know,
00:35 65, when I was a youngster, you were old. People were old. But 65 now, no, I think it's
00:45 a very, very good idea.
00:47 I think it will be terrible for some professions. Some people don't really want to give up work,
00:52 and that's fine. But I was a primary school teacher, I wouldn't want to be crawling around
00:58 on the floor at 71. So I think it's very unfair.
01:04 Of course it is a bad move. It's an awful move. It's terrible. You should get a lot
01:09 of people, you should get everyone, old people should be able to retire a lot earlier. And
01:13 then it's going to free up a lot more vacancies for a lot more other people to be able to
01:16 do these jobs. And then we can actually look after old people properly. Obviously, it's
01:21 tricky. They might want to raise the retirement age because then they'd have to pay for care
01:25 homes or that kind of thing. But it's insane.
01:28 Currently, I think it's 67. And I'm like 39. I'm thinking that I will be working 24 or
01:35 25 more years. And then even on top of that, extra four. No, that's going to have a huge
01:41 impact, I think, in people's life.
01:42 Well, having just hit the current retirement age myself last December, which is 66 at the
01:47 moment, I'm now in a quandary whether to retire or not because of the cost of living increase.
01:53 A lot of people are being forced to stay on in any case. So maybe this projected rise
01:59 in the retirement age might not have a big effect on people.
02:02 My mum, she's God bless her. She's like, she's 65, 60. She's out of the house years. She's
02:09 coming up to retirement, but 70 years old, 70 years of age, I don't know. I mean, can
02:13 people really do that? I don't know.
02:16 There's plenty of money about when they need it, like giving it to Ukraine, or helping
02:20 other people out as billions, and they get to the DUP in Northern Ireland. There's always
02:24 money there, but it's always a way of squeezing the people more who don't have money. And
02:29 things go up and up and up. And really, it's the way society is kind of arranged. And it's
02:34 a rigged system really against the people that are the poorest.
02:37 I think we should just be a bit more like France and maybe try and put our word in a
02:43 bit more because France seems to put the foot down and protest, but we just seem to say
02:49 okay.
02:51 I think that's a bit high. I think they're just trying to work us all to death and save
02:57 some money on pension, aren't they? Yeah. Basically all it is.
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