Reposted as Labour panic leads them to try, with vague unconvincing promises, to stop Waspi women voting SNP:

Labour letting the Waspi women die in poverty is just business for my local Labour MP, the BBC and BBC Scotland, as they shield Sarwar
Labour letting the Waspi women die in poverty is just business for my local Labour MP, the BBC and BBC Scotland, as they shield Sarwar

5 thoughts on “Reposted as Labour panic leads them to try, with vague unconvincing promises, to stop Waspi women voting SNP:”

  1. They will have to give the women benefits. More than the pension rights?

    Women could not join pension schemes if they worked P/T.

    Like

    Reply

  2. This story was covered in the BBC website on the 11 October 2025.

    “Government to rethink rejection of Waspi compensation”

    It’s a strange kind of non story that automatically did make you think that the timing of this is a tad too convenient what with the Scottish & Welsh elections coming up next year…..

    Also with reports that Keir Starmer is currently “fighting attempts to replace him” from some within the party who are considered to be a tad too keen and a tad too ambitious as his Labour colleagues , who are now seeing an opportunity , what with the polls showing just how bad things are for Labour under Keir Starmer.

    (Also his , Starmer’s, own very low polling , as both a leader and as the PM , also makes him vulnerable just now as well).

    So then he, Starmer, and Labour need some big announcements to take them into the elections next year to try and avoid a total Wipeout for them and also to try and save Starmer’s job.

    So back to the BBC article and this supposed breaking ‘news’….

    “A document was not shown to Liz Kendall, who was Work and Pensions Secretary at the time of the decision, but had since come to light and needed to be considered, the government has now said”.

    Oh really BBC, surely this is a way for Liz Kendall to be saved as a current government Minister but now she is in a different ministerial position….in that she based her previous decision last year only on the supposed ‘facts’ that she had when she said these things below in the government’s response to the report by the Ombudsman on WASPI women…..a copy of this speech , dated the 17 December 2024, is on the UK government’s website under “Government response to Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman (PHSO) report ”)

    “The 28-month delay in sending out letters to women born in the 1950s. was maladministration. The Ombudsman says these delays did not result in the women suffering direct financial loss … but they were maladministration“

    They, the Labour government, “agreed that the women suffered no direct financial loss because of this maladministration“.

    However, “they did not agree with the Ombudsman’s approach to injustice or remedy.  And she, Kendall, wanted to spell out why”

    “First, the report does not properly take into account research showing there was actually considerable awareness that the State Pension age was increasing”  

    They , the government, also “could not accept that sending a letter earlier would have affected whether women knew their State Pension age was rising or would have increased their opportunities to make informed decisions”

    So  “two facts: Most women knew the State Pension age was increasing and that letters aren’t as significant as the Ombudsman says”.

    “Our conclusion is that there should be no scheme of financial compensation to 1950s born women in response to the Ombudsman’s report”

    So you can read the full report online on Kendall’s response to the Ombudsmen’s findings and recommendations that this Labour government decided not to agree with or implement.

    So back to the BBC article written on 11 November where it states:

    “Current Pensions Secretary Pat McFadden told the Commons that retaking the decision would not automatically lead to compensation“

    “Retaking this decision should not be taken as an indication that government will necessarily decide that it should award financial redress,” he said.

    So then what is the actual point of this announcement being made ?

    Other than for some kind of perceived political benefit to Labour in the elections next year.

    Well the article states that “The undisclosed evidence involved was a survey from 2007, and McFadden said that checks would be made to ensure other documents and surveys had not been missed. No timescale has been given for the work to be done“.

    “Checks would be made but no timescale“

    That reeks of another infamous Labour empty aka broken promise that will, post the elections next year, likely peter out, as in conclude that the findings on the checks they made cannot now justify any compensation being made to WASPI women?

    I mean the compensation some deserve will not be made via the amounts that some WASPI women state they have lost while the various UK governments have been reported as having “saved an estimated £181.4 billion by the end of the 2025-2026 financial year due to the increase in the state pension age for women born in the 1950s” .

    Follow the money always……….plenty money for defence but no money for the people in the various nations within the UK State that you, as a UK government, supposedly govern.

    The BBC article then adds that “Angela Madden, who chairs Women Against State Pension Inequality (Waspi), said: “The government now knows it got it wrong and we are pleased they are now trying to do it properly”

    (Are they though ? As in “trying to do it properly” ) ?

    “We hope they also try to do it quickly” she also said.

    (That will not happen as they, the government have stated that “No timescale has been given for the work to be done“).

    She also added “that the only correct thing to do was to compensate those affected immediately“

    (But the government have actually said, via Pat McFadden, “retaking the decision would not automatically lead to compensation” and also he added that “this decision should not be taken as an indication that government will necessarily decide that it should award financial redress” ).

    So if the WASPI women do fall for this obvious contrived political ploy that is not offering any real substance on what the WASPI women actually want and so should get……as in a firm offer of compensation……..

    Well then if this does result in some WASPI women unwisely deciding (yet again) to vote Labour next year in the elections, then I am afraid that perhaps we, as I am a WASPI women too, deserve everything we (have not and never will) get from any UK government.

    (Though as a WASPI women myself , I will not be voting Labour next year ……..fool me once shame on you and fool me twice shame on me……that is what all WASPI women should really all be thinking just now.…….especially their spokespersons……..as this half baked announcement equates to Jack S*** as far as a definite commitment and pledge to right the wrong that was done to WASPI women).

    Liz S

    Liked by 3 people

    Reply

  3. If the WASPI women were not paid what they were due, when they should have been, how could they possibly NOT suffer any financial detriment?

    Like

    Reply

    1. “If the WASPI women were not paid what they were due, when they should have been, how could they possibly NOT suffer any financial detriment”?

      Excellent point and one that seems to be , for now, bypassing one of the spokespersons for the WASPI women, who naively said “we are pleased they are now trying to do it properly” and also “We hope they also try to do it quickly“.

      That is not what is happening !

      What next from her ?

      Will she be advising the members of the WASPI campaign to vote Labour next year in the Scottish & Welsh elections………if she does, and nowt is done by this Labour UK government for the WASPI women, she will surely be replaced as a spokesperson…..

      As WASPI women need to recognise that votes cast next year in Scotland & Wales , that are cast for Labour, make absolutely no difference to the decisions that will be made by a UK government upon WASPI women……….

      However I am positive that Anas Sarwar will grab onto this half baked mixed message on WASPI women that has been made by Pat McFadden and he, Sarwar, will use it, as in try to exploit it for his own political advantage , in his election campaign for his Labour branch office in the Scottish elections.

      Warning: remember Grangemouth Refinery and what Anas Sarwar promised would happen……that then did not happen.

      ( BTW Keir Starmer will also surely be replaced as Labour leader, if it all does go wrong for Labour in the Scottish & Welsh elections, as in if they lose badly).

      Labour and Keir Starmer somehow survived the local English elections this year , which saw them lose many Council seats and also they lost one Mayoral seat in Cambridgeshire & Peterborough (it went instead to the Tories)……

      So as Gordon Brown once said “Read the small print” via a broken pledge that he made to Scotland prior to the first Indy Ref, that was then not fulfilled in the way that it was promised and promoted by him for Scotland ****..……so that will also be the case for WASPI women now, as in going forward (or backwards) with this Labour UK government.

      (**** this quote, “Read the small print” , is what Brown said to Cathy Newman on Channel 4 news when she challenged him on his promise to Scotland that “a plan that was described as being “as close to federalism as is possible” but it would only happen if Scotland voted NO in 2014).

      Now look what is happening , they , Labour as the new UK government, are , like the former Tory government, taking away powers and money from our devolved Scottish government.

      A Labour promise is not worth S***.

      Liz S

      Liked by 2 people

      Reply

  4. You have to hand it to Labour they have learn’t a lot since 2014 offering jam tomorrow to convince the unwashed amongst us.

    Robbo

    Like

    Reply

Leave a comment

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.