Policies from Age 50

Reform that Betters Pensions

New Ministry of Pensions and People from Age 50, including specifically dealing with the ageist sexism against women from age 50 in society and from the state.
Incitement or enacting Ageist misogyny (hatred of women over 50) to be the same Hate Crime definition as all other protected characteristics.
Granny is a term of pride.
Grey Vote is not patronising.
CEDAW treaty on rights of women and girls, becomes part of domestic law and CEDAW has added to treaty the rights against ageist sexism to women over 50.

FOREVER END STATE PENSION

BEING CALLED A BENEFIT

Make State Pension a Human Right (adding to Human Rights laws) and contract right between pensioners and National Insurance Fund (renamed National Insurance Pension Scheme, and become a membership (us, the people) owned mutual).

RENAME STATE PENSION

Call state pension back to its previous name of

NATIONAL INSURANCE PENSION.

GOVERNMENT FUNDING OF STATE PENSION

Government Treasury re-start paying Consolidated Fund Supplement into National Insurance Fund.

No surplus taken by government from National Insurance Fund for any reason, meaning ring fencing means ring fencing.

REVIEW WORKS PENSION SYSTEM AS A WHOLE

• Work towards standalone works pensions, so not an asset of private company when it goes bust and the money is safe for when you start next job and begin contributing again.

• Utilise custom and practice to ensure what one age received in works pension rights is maintained for next generation of workers in public and private sector.

• End Fire and Rehire to downgrade works pension rights.

MEDIA AND WOMEN

BBC TV LICENCE

FREE BBC TV LICENCE from age 60 men and women.
Work towards ending BBC TV LICENCE and shutting down BBC.
Keep Freeview (which shows repeats of period dramas anyway).
Only keep BBC Breakfast programmes for government information about changes coming with Over 50s & Young Labouring Ages party’s government.
Self-funded with adverts before and after the programme.

Law so pension campaigners have full, free and regular access to Channel 4 television (self funded public broadcaster).
National Pensioners Convention and 1950s to 1980s born women, without journalists, telling about the discrimination of mainstream media today, without journalists attacking them for doing so. We are the victims of ageism against men and women, and even more ageist sexism (misogyny) against women aged over 50.
Help fund new start-up television channels and newspapers, that give the reality of working-class social history and women’s social history, in particular. Focus on UK history and current stories. Not foreign news. These new start-ups to educate against the ageist sexism against women aged over 50 in UK.

Fund a magazine giving her-story (not just his-story) of the misery of the theft of half a decade of 1950s born women’s state and works pensions. Giving the reality of the worldwide attack on the state pension, by the global lies and deceit against it, the Fund that pays for it, and pensioners in general. And how all major parties were equally complicit.
Fund soaps to have storylines to show the misery of the theft of half a decade of 1950s born women’s state and works pensions, and now the 1960s born, the next victims.
Fund soaps to have storylines to show the misery of the loss of Pension Credit from age 60 men and women, the I Daniel Blakes beyond Ken Loach, then loss in 2018 of men only getting automatic unemployment or sick benefit, without requirement to seek work, between ages 60 and 64 inclusive.

Not shut down current left wing, socialist and communist online newspapers, but have them (on every page) inform that they are ageist sexist against women aged over 50 and pensioners in general, so women and elderly are aware.

Research beginning for an Over 50s party social media channel. Techies will say if we can go beyond Facebook and its censorship?

PENSIONER SOCIAL HOUSING

Help Grey Vote Generation Rent, by building socially, properly affordable fully furnished pensioners bungalow in small estates out in villages, to rent from pensioner housing associations. With tied cottage system warden couple to help them.
Cap social sheltered pensioner housing at 30 per cent of state pension.
In first instance, building on land of houses left derelict for years, by compulsory purchase, and land used by HS2 now no longer to be used, as HS2 stops.
Make social pensioner housing bungalows will be within nil council tax first year of our government, then turned into a 2.5 per cent local income tax, start payment same as basic tax allowance.
Put solar and / or modern type small wind turbines, on all new and old build pensioner social housing bungalows. (FIT scheme so not maintained by householder).
Ends UK being amongst world’s highest winter excess deaths of elderly, as could then afford to heat and eat.

PENSIONER LANDLORDS OF PRIVATE RENTAL OF 1 or 2 HOMES

For landlords on modest incomes, with 1 or 2 private rentals that they maintain as an alternative to a pension, exempt them from having to install energy efficient home improvements.
FIT schemes of solar and vertical helix type wind turbines on roofs (owned and maintained by FIT scheme company) preventing fuel poverty in winter to rental tenants.

IN SOLIDARITY WITH

Miners Pension Justice.
Gurkha military works pension justice.

DEMENTIA - Make automatically within free NHS ongoing healthcare system - Click Here for Dementia page on manifesto:-

65 percent of total deaths due to dementia are women, and disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) due to dementia are roughly 60% higher in women than in men.
Additionally, women provide the majority of informal care for people living with dementia, accounting for 70% of carer hours