the general public will see this and ask why, when troops are short of kit and dying on dusty battlefields, should we be paying for retired people to live a comfortable life when young men and women desperately need the money to be spent on operational equipment
Because for my 30 years they abated (read 'took') 11% out of my pay to fund my pension.
That's why I have no qualms at all about looking at my bank statement each month.
If the government have dropped a bollock in making adequate provision for those
entitlements then that is their problem.
Hark, I hear the tumbrils moving and the rusty creak of Madame Guillotine!