Revised figures from the Office of National Statistics (ONS) indicate that nearly two-thirds of single pensioners have to get by on incomes of less than £10,000 a year.
In addition it is revealed that pensions are providing people with only modest incomes, with 61% of single pensioners receiving less than £10,000 a year from them during 2006/200.
Meanwhile 45% of pensioner couples received less than £15,000, according to the ONS.
Furthermore, the figures for 2006/2007 suggest that 66% of pensioner households had a private pension, such as an occupational one, generating an average income of £11,059 for pensioner couples, £6,812 for single men and £5,519 for single women.
Yet 64% of single women who received a private pension got less than £5,000 from it during the year, as did 58% of single men and 39% per cent of couples.
It is also stated that the majority of people had their income topped up by state benefits, such as the state pension and other related benefits.
The figures also show that pensioner couples received an average of £10,191 from the state in 2006/2007, while single men got £6,911 and single women received an average of £6,700.
Meanwhile, during the fiscal year 2006/7, the following legislators, claimed in expenses and allowances from Parliament, the following sums:
David Cameron (Con) - £143,385
Gordon Brown (Lab) – £135,525
Boris Johnson (Con) – £134,306
Alistair Darling (Lab) – £136,854
Caroline Spelman (Con) – £132,855
Edward Balls (Lab) – £157,076
Bob Spink (UKIP) – £152,938
Keith Vaz (Lab) – £148,235
Shahid Malik (Lab) – £185,421
Ann Cryer (Lab) – £149,195
Nick Clegg (Lib-D) – £146,022
Barry Gardiner (Lab) – £160,464
Do we detect something of an imbalance in the disbursement of public money?
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The corrupt government we have, is far too busy handing out benefits to terrorists and giving large sums of aid to countries that do not need it, to care about the people who have paid taxes all their lives - and even paid with their lives fighting for this country! Well at least the one thing we can look forward to is the new BNP government!
The elderly always get ripped off in this country, while millions of pounds of taxpayers’ money, funds two illegal wars and corrupt regimes.
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The wars are illegal Fairygirl and the regimes you refer to are corrupt. Thank you for thinking of us elderly! - Ed
How does a minion like Malik manage to claim £50,000 more than the PM?
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I’m certain that many, if not most of our Dishonourable Members, are working on that right now - Ed
Anyone under the age of thirty probably won’t receive a state pension at this rate if all this money keeps mysteriously vanishing. Or at least they will have to work until they’re about eighty-five to qualify–if they live that long.
I can only second everything ballberians has said. The average income of an MP together with expenses and allowances comes to £250,000, which is equivalent to over 200 pensions of normal superannuated Brits. It may be diversity, but is it equity? At all events, it’s definitely positive discrimination, in favour of unfitness for purpose, laziness, hypocrisy, treason and moral tightrope-dancing by men and women with Lilliputian consciences and Brobdidnagian appetites. In God’s name, go.
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Want to put that figure further into perspective? These days £250,000 equates to about $500,000 US dollars. The salary of the U.S. President is only $400,000! If this continues, you’ll see George Bush emigrating to the UK to run for office….–Ed.
Ed
Why not produce a leaflet showing approximate yearly cost of parliamentary expenses because these figures are absolutely outrageous! What do MPs actually do to justify this amount of money for sitting on their backsides in parliament for 100 days of the year? No other job has this level of pay and expenses the employer would go bust!
Wake up people we’re being bled dry.
Our older generation are paid a pittance to barely survive, let alone enjoy, their golden years. Then, to add insult to injury, many of them are treated appallingly in soviet-style “care” homes. This country`s political elite want these top-quality Britons, and their inconvenient memories of better days, out of the way.
Are there no workhouses? Are there no prisons? The famous words of Mr Scrooge as written by Dickens–so prophetic. These words could be spoken by legions of so-called Parliamentarians, could they not? I can just imagine Jocky Broon saying them, and Cameroon–and it’s no stretch of the imagination, either.
Might it not be an idea for our Indiginious Senior Citizens be paid a percentage of MPs and Asylum Seekers Income.
Many would appreciate being paid for:-
Furniture
Household Items
Food
TV Licenses
2nd Homes
Ect
To all pensioners who have an opportunity to VOTE on Thursday, Try a vote for the BNP!
I think that the grey vote is an area where we can make big inroads.These people are the one’s who tend to vote so to target them is essential.
I would suggest that one of your excellent colour brochures be produced setting out exactly what we intend for pensioners and push this to number one on our agenda.
one, it will concentrate their minds and two it would take away the negative ” immigration” perception that the electorate,wrongly, see as our only theme.
esselliott is correct. It is clear from the photos of the Henley by-election that most of the BNP support there came from older people and older people are the ones who tend to vote. This, of course, does not mean ignoring the youth vote but a lot of votes are laying around to be picked up from older people who are dismayed with what is happening in Britain.
I live and work abroad for a British company and whenever I am in conversation with anyone regarding the British Government I always refer to the members being Kleptocrats not Democrats. I always maintain that Britain is far from being a true Democracy and is in reality a Kleptocracy. I also point out the reasons for this, facts and figures I have come accross only because of British Nationalists and like-minded people, these help a lot to prove my point.
The BNP must be thanked a lot for this, keep up the good work of revealing the truth to the common man and justice will eventually prevail leading to our once glorious Nation being saved from thieves and vagabonds.
Well said everyone. I absolutely agree that this is the road to go down.
The debate over immigration is over. We won.
Now forget that and concentrate on hitting these corrupt gits in the pocket, where it hurts. As an experiment you can all try out, phone your local councillor or MP and ask for details of their expenses. You’ll love the “politician’s response” you’ll get. For even more fun, if you bump into a local councillor in a pub, start a conversation about general expenses (don’t concentrate on them personally) and watch the sweat from their brow. Priceless. Now let’s get some leaflets out there, preferably targeting older voters who are far more passionate about democracy than a bored youth who has known nothing but Blair and Brown.
As a criticism of the above article, I would point out that people know how much money they have, so the somewhat confusing statistics are counterproductive. Just keep focussed on how much their allowances are, then add in their salary and the rest will settle very easily in the public mind. Oh, and then tell them the BNP’s expenses.
I am all for esselliot’s suggestion. I would suggest that any such material be printed using a larger font size than usual, as midget printing is hard on elderly eyes.
When going for signatures for my local election nomination form, it was older folk who were unfazed at signing, while younger supporters tended to shy away.
Our pensioners have guts and class. We must do more for them.
As a pensioner myself with a reasonable (private) income, I am often in the company of pensioners who have to ‘exist’ on the bare state pension, and can not afford to eat properly. Any small luxury they desire is out of their reach. Many times I have heard it said that if it were not for the generosity of their children, they might as well be dead.
It sickens me when I hear the amounts of cash the vultures of Westminster are helping themselves to, while pensioners are on the breadline.
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The wickedness and greed of the troughminster gang is appalling. We are sickened by the suffering of our old folk, in contrast with the lifestyles and smirking arrogance of the thieving traitors who have sold them out.
Pensioners, help yourselves by voting BNP, so that we can help you regain the dignity and respect you deserve.
Welcome aboard, bismark. - Ed
Despite the pension woes of our elderly, some ‘enrichers’ are planning for their early retirement without ever needing to work:
http://tinyurl.com/6xejhq
Extract:
“…Mother ‘invented disabled children to collect £1million in benefits’
It was alleged Remi Fakorede, 46, recruited her 21-year-old daughter Denise Shofolawe-Coker to help launder the profits from the five-year scam.
Fakorede submitted 39 false claims on forms and via the internet for tax credits - designed to help parents with children get back to work, Snaresbrook Crown Court heard.
But the mother and daughter deny any wrongdoing - claiming a relative named ‘Auntie Marian’ hijacked their identities to pocket a total of £925,933…”
As a pensioner myself, I can certainly verify that we are expected to scrape by on a pittance.
I am a non smoker and can only afford the occasional drink in my home.
Going to the supermarket for the necessities of life is an experience some of our trough-gorging MPs ought to try on the same amount as we have to live on.
If they knew I still managed the occasional small donation to our party, they would cut my pension down even more.
Damn the lot of ‘em !!!
I’m certainly dreading trying to pay such “trivialities” as fuel and lighting bills this coming winter in the present economic climate. I’m just SO pleased that I don’t have a “second” home to keep warm like these poor politicians.
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Keep yourself warm and well nourished this winter gyukcas before considering any donations - Ed
@ Lickyalips
This sort of thing is so shameless. Not only do these freeloading b******s rob us blind of welfare benefits, they also con the insurance companies (remember the article a while back?) and involve unrelated children in their scams. How about this one to make your hair and toes curl?
Illegal Nigerian immigrant in UK funded £4m property empire with benefits:
http://hiberniagirl.blogspot.com/2008/01/illegal-nigerian-immigrant-in-uk-funded.html
Do we ever get the money back or is it simply used to pay their years of imprisonment and then dole when they come out again? 4 million pounds would provide quite a nice top-up fund for quite a few BNP veterans.
I am probably the luckiest 70-year-old in the entire world because my wife of 18 years is half my age and works for the local authority. Sadly, it’s hard physical graft for just 50p an hour over the minimum wage, but it keeps us hovering just a little above the bread-line. I shudder to think what life would be like were I a single pensioner living alone.
Given the derisory, cynically-inadequate sum awarded to single pensioners by those contemptuous and insatiably avaricious Troughminster thieves–remember MacBroon’s 75p-a-week pension rise one year?–I have calculated that if I lived alone, I would use no gas or electricity and would have only a pay-as-you-go mobile phone, no land line. The TV would go (not that it would be much missed). For cooking, I would use a portable, butane-fueled gas ring. For winter, I would build a bothy in the front room, using second-hand timber to make the frame and lots of cheap duvets to create a layer of insulation at least 18 inches thick for sitting in, and still more insulating material to form a close-fitting tube in which I would sleep. I would wear many thin layers of clothing up to a thickness of at least two-and-a-half inches, which I would never take off. I might stink, but at least I wouldn’t die of cold.
What kind of country, allegedly the world’s fifth wealthiest, do we live in when all my arithmetic shows that a single pensioner needs to adopt drastic anti-cold measures such as those I have outlined above if he/she is not to be at risk of being one of the 20,000 (at least) who perish, alone, unseen and unwanted, from cold each winter?
This country’s need for a BNP government has never been so desperate, and is becoming ever more desperate by the day.
@ Noel
You are a clever man! I knew you were well-read, enterprising, adventurous (on your motor bike) and outspoken, but now you have let on about your marital status, my admiration knows no bounds!
The BNP’s members are full of surprises and a force to be reckoned with. Let the Liblabcon Cerberus beware, any traitorous dog found without a licence to steal will be impounded - the British Resistance dog-catchers are on the prowl.
Sheriff: Thank you so much for your kind comments, although I readily acknowledge that, in reality, your posts indicate that you are far better read than I am.
While the Troughminster traitors fill their boots and stuff their faces with heavily subsidised gourmet food, they also preside over an education system perfectly tailored to the Frankfurt School deconstruction plan and in accordance with the Bildergers’ requirement: “…education…of the poorest sort”.
There is no hope of our educators ever pointing out to our young people that you do not choose a husband or wife on the basis of appearance but that of his/her humanity. Looks, however impressive, are transcient, whereas compassion, kindness, honesty, loyalty, charity, conscience and a sense of right and wrong will not only last a lifetime but will also mean your marriage will develop an unbreakable strength, unassailable security and much joy and laughter.
We in the BNP have all of those qualities and strengths and we WILL defeat the superficial, shallow, hollow, lying, power-crazed travesties of humanity who comprise the LiabLabCon triumvirate and the EUSSR dictators. And so far as our country is concerned, we will thwart the satanically evil plans of the demonic Bilderbergers themselves.
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Well said, Noel!
- Ed