At a recent meeting of our local constituency party, we were entertaining a shadow minister guest along with our own shadow minister MP. The floor was free for questions and I asked about pensions policy. The guest MP began waffling on with the usual platitudes about dwindling numbers of young people, people would have to make their own provisions, blah, blah etc. at which point I interrupted him to point out that it was we constituency members all over the country who chose our candidates and ultimately decided upon policy. It was therefore fair to point out that everyone present had grey hair and was either close to retirement or already retired. Not only that, but it is the older voters who have the highest turn out at election time. Both he and our own MP appeared stunned by all the subsequent "Hear-hears".
Parliament ignores the pension time-bomb at its peril; I hope they took the warning to the next shadow cabinet meeting.