So WASPI women who claim they didn't get enough notice that their state pension retirement date was being equalised with men (by being raised to 65 years of age) want compensation for inadequate notice.
I can't help thinking here that they are rather taking the piss.
For decades women were paid the state pension from age 60 while men had to wait until they were 65. It didn't matter that the average age of death for men was years earlier than that of women. Women still got their state pension 5 years earlier.
So rather than accept they had a good thing for too long and keep quiet about it; no, they want compensation for someone taking away a highly considerable perk they should never have enjoyed in the first place.
Yet here's the irony of equalising male and female rights:
For all those years that women got their pensions from age 60, there's a compelling argument that men around that time ought to be compensated for the fact that they didn't get their pension from age 60 also.
I mean, seriously, we are seeing local authorities thrown into bankruptcy by equal pay claims (e.g. Glasgow City Council, Birmingham City Council) raised by women from decades ago when they claim they were paid less than men for doing the same job.
Well if that's how equality works, I cannot see why men who retired at age 65 while women retired at age 60, are not similarly entitled to a compensation claim.
Those men are entitled to claim for equal rights and demand compensation for the years of age 60 to 65, when they also ought to have been paid the state pension.
Let's face it, you cannot go back and take 5 years worth of state pension off of women who received it from age 60, so the only alternative to equalise this state of affairs is to pay 5 years of state pension to all men who only got the pension from age 65.
Equality works both ways. If women can claim equal pay rights from decades ago, then men should be able to claim equal pension rights from decades ago.
And their rights come well before those of WASPI women seeking a top-up to the perk of an earlier pension that they previously unfairly enjoyed.
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