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  • Published: 15 February 2011
  • ISBN: 9781409099505
  • Imprint: Cornerstone Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 240
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The Great Pensions Robbery

How New Labour Betrayed Retirement




A devastating and gripping account of the pension system scandal – one of the great government scandals of our time.

Once upon a time Britain's pension system was admired around the world. Now, it's in tatters and vast numbers of people face the grim choice of enduring a poverty-stricken future or working until they drop. What on earth went wrong?

In The Great Pensions Robbery award-winning journalist Alex Brummer ventures into the corridors of power to find out how politicians bent on penny-pinching, a civil service cowed into submission and individuals more interested in their careers than public service have all taken a part in fatally undermining a 100-year-old system. It's also a story of breathtaking hypocrisy, where those in charge have feather-bedded their own pensions while destroying those of ordinary people. And, as Brummer convincingly argues, we're only just starting to live with the appalling consequences.

  • Published: 15 February 2011
  • ISBN: 9781409099505
  • Imprint: Cornerstone Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 240
Categories:

About the author

Alex Brummer

Alex Brummer is one of the UK's leading financial journalists and commentators. After a long and successful stint at the Guardian he moved to be City Editor at the Daily Mail in 2000. He has won prizes both as a foreign correspondent and economics writer. Awards received include Business Journalist of the Year 2006, Newspaper Journalist 2002 and Best City Journalist 2000. His books include Hanson: A Biography (Fourth Estate 1994), Weinstock: The Life and Times of Britain's Premier Industrialist (HarperCollins 1998), The Crunch (Random House 2008) and Britain for Sale (Random House 2012).

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