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Hands Off Our Pensions. We Saved Them, We Earned Them, They're Ours.



David Crabb and Kevan James look at tax and the wider implications of Labour policy.

January 16, 2025.



David Crabb


Here’s the truth about pensions, folks; our money, our savings, our life’s work, is being eyed up by the taxman.


Now, Starmer’s Labour looms in the distance, promising to slap Inheritance Tax on pensions. Yes, you heard that right—stealing from the old, the hardworking, the backbone of this country.


You slog your whole life, you put money aside, and when you’re gone, what’s left is meant to look after your loved ones. But now, they’re telling us, “Nah, mate, hand over 40% to the Treasury.”


How is that fair? It’s not. It’s daylight robbery dressed up in progressive platitudes. And the double standards? Don’t get me started. Farmers' inheritance tax exemptions are a big headline grabber, and rightly so, but why does the same courtesy not apply to pensioners? Why are their life savings suddenly fair game?


It’s not just the tax that’s the problem, it’s the ripple effect. Under the current system, pensions passed to loved ones are available quickly. That means your family isn’t left in the lurch while grieving.


But throw Inheritance Tax into the mix, and suddenly, the funds are tied up in Probate, a bureaucratic quagmire that can take months to sort. Imagine the real life consequences: your grieving partner, already struggling emotionally, now has to face financial chaos because they can’t access the money you saved for them.


What are they supposed to do in the meantime?


How do they keep up with bills, the mortgage, or even basic living expenses? This isn’t just a tax, it’s an assault on decency, a system designed to punish the living and plunder the dead. For people like Paris Greiner, who worked hard to leave something for loved ones—not just spouses but partners, step kids, anyone important, it’s a cruel joke.


This isn’t a tax system; it’s a shakedown.


Enough is enough. Hands off our pensions. We saved it, we earned it, and it’s ours.

Full stop.


© David Crabb, 2025.

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Kevan James


David's comments are of course, quite right and spot on. But the assault on more mature members of UK society is just one example of a much wider malaise.


Under this Labour government, the United Kingdom is seeing nothing more than a Communist attack on Britain and its people. To really grasp this however also means understanding it and where it has come from and to defeat it needs much, much more than merely posting on social media.


The origins go back decades, to the aftermath of WWII, when Britain was exhausted and deep in debt, and in the 1945 general election Labour won a landslide victory, making a net gain of 239 seats, winning 49.7% of the popular vote, achieving a majority of 146 seats, and Clement Attlee became prime minister, replacing the Conservatives and Winston Churchill.


This election marked the first time that the Labour Party had won an outright majority in Parliament, Ramsey MacDonald having led brief minority governments in the 1920s and early 1930s.


Concerns had been raised earlier over Labour's vulnerability to infiltration by Communism and it is since 1945 that this has become more noted. However, not until Tony Blair won in May 1997 did Labour govern for as long as they did from that year on.


The more subtle influence of the far left prior to 1997 became more strident, buoyed by the thirteen years Labour had. And the results of that are seen now.


Aided and abetted by the Cameron/May/Johnson/Sunak-led Labour-Lite Tories, what is, in reality a Labour-in-name-only government, is openly, effectively and as quickly as it can, bringing in Communist ideals.


Put another way, the UK population has been softened up by 27 years of what has been essentially government by those to the left of politics.


© Kevan James 2025



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I can’t thank David enough for putting my worries in writing in a way that I could never do.

Myself and so many others who’ve worked hard to provide for our loved ones are about to be shafted right at what's meant to be the finish line.

Just when we think we’ve made it.

Gone.


Paris Greiner




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