The man who destroyed our private pensions has ensured his own is safe from his meddling. Gordon Brown has a personal pension pot of £274,000 courtesy of the British taxpayer. His sidekicks are equally well provided for, with Jack straw having a pot of £294,000, which would pay him a yearly pension of £20,500. Alistair Darling has a pot worth £235,000. Not bad for having the best non-jobs in the country.

These ministerial pensions are on top of their Mps pensions.

Figures compiled by the Liberal Democrats also reveal that while our MPs are living it large at our expense the average private sector pension pot is just £25,000, which will produce a yearly income of just £1600. If you are not mad, you should be.

This is unacceptable. The very people who have been misruling us for years, lying to us for years, forcing policies onto us for years that have downgraded our lives, are cocooned from the effects of their mismanagement.

Lord Oakeshott a Liberal Democrat peer uncovered the figures. Lord Oakeshotte summed this situation up when he said:

“’Ministers and mandarins live in a pensions time warp. They look like the First World War general in Blackadder, sipping fine wines in a chateau well behind the frontline while privates in the trenches get their pensions shot to pieces.’

Well said your lordship.

Matthew Elliott of the Taxpayers’ Alliance said: “Ministers will enjoy a comfortable retirement at the expense of poverty-stricken pensioners.” That about sums it up.

Meanwhile, back in the real world. Those of us in the private sector can only watch as our pension funds take hit after hit in the recession. Billions of pounds have been wiped off private company pensions. While ministers’ pensions have risen by double the rate of inflation. Recession? What recession? Private pensions are becoming so severely damaged that private companies are trying to plug a £130 billion shortfall. And the recession hasn’t even started yet!

It’s time we challenged this situation. It’s time we started writing to our MPs and telling them, we are not happy. We are not going to sit back and take any more of it. The time for passivity is over. Everyone should write to their MP today and tell him or her that we are sick of it all and we want our pensions protecting as well.

We are in this mess because of the mismanagement of successive governments. Forget Gordon Brown’s attempts to blame America. It’s not America’s fault that our economy is so weak it depends on people shopping. This is the fault of governments who have encouraged the destruction of our manufacturing industry.

Mps have argued that it is simply market forces at work and there is nothing they can do about it. The crowd of freeloaders in Westminster are happy to throw the rest of us out of the door to face the harsh winds of capitalism while they stay inside, insulated from the policies they have created.

Before I sign off for today, here’s a question that’s been puzzling me for some time. Our manufacturing industry has disappeared because other countries can do it cheaper. People who were employed in manufacturing are either sitting in call centres or struggling on the dole.

What I cannot understand is if over ninety percent of our laws are made in Brussels and our MPs can’t do anything about it. Why do we still have the same number of MPs? Manufacturing jobs have gone because it is now been done overseas, so why haven’t we lost most of our Mps now that most of their jobs is done over seas?

Years Of Corruption And Mismanagement

Recent events in the stock market have proved what most of us suspected all along. That the whole economic system of this country has been run by greedy, selfish, incompetent, corrupt and ethic less people, who over the last twenty years have been filling their pockets with other people’s money on the grounds that they possessed some magical formula to make rain. Today they are exposed as the incompetent, irresponsible mediocrities they are.

As usual though, they have walked away with their ill-gotton gains while the rest of us are left to pick up the bill, and what a bill it will prove to be. Our pensions are going to the wall, our savings will be taxed even more to pay for the feckless and our hopes of a half decent retirement are evaporating by the day.

I can always remember an interview with Margret Thatcher when she was prime minister. The interviewer was questioning the wisdom of removing the cap on how much plc directors could pay themselves. The argument was that the cap on director’s wages in plc companies was discouraging the brightest and the best business men from taking jobs in British PLC companies. By removing the cap on director’s wages these wonder men would come flocking to British PLC companies and use their super powers to propel the companies to world-wide dominance securing the jobs of the workers.

When the interviewer suggested that they may abuse the system and pay themselves huge incomes that they didn’t deserve. Mrs Thatcher, in her best fake indignant voice said something like “these are professional people, they wouldn’t do that.” Within months of the cap been removed stories of excessive director’s pay began to leak out as these “professional people” began to fill their pockets with money they did not deserve.

The feeding frenzy continued for twenty years with ever more excessive payouts to chairmen for failure, mind boggling sums of money were stolen by these barons from PLC companies. No thought was given to the working people who had over the years built these companies up. They were expendable on the new alter of globalism. Their wages forced down deliberately by mass immigration approved by all the political class.

Now, after years of corruption, greed and incompetence the whole thing is collapsing around our ears. The people responsible have fled with their sacks of money to their country houses or overseas properties, so they won’t have to face the consequences of their greed and corruption. Meanwhile the people who have spent their lives working and saving are left standing in the road while their lives collapse around them. The very same people who will be hammered for tax to clear the mess up.