2 thoughts on “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”

  1. The BBC News website is reporting the Labour Government’s decision on WASPI compensation in the following terms:

    • ‘the vast majority of 1950s-born women already knew the state pension age was increasing’
    • “women did not suffer any direct financial loss from the delay’
    • ‘most of those affected would not have read an unsolicited pensions letter, even if it had been sent earlier’
    • ‘those who knew the least about pensions — “the very women who most needed to engage with a letter” — were the least likely to read it’. (my emphasis)

    We should not forget this from April 9, 2018. Jackie Baillie MSP stated: “The changes to the state pension age which were made by the Tory government had have (sic) a terrible impact on thousands of women in Dumbarton and across Scotland.

    “I have been working with the cross party group on WASPI in the Scottish Parliament which has support of almost all of the parties in Holyrood to pursue justice for those women affected. I am glad that we could bring this meeting to women in my constituency to raise awareness of the campaign; hear their very real concerns and learn what impact these changes have had on them and their families.

    “I would encourage women from across the area to attend the meeting if they are able. These changes are having a devastating impact and their voices need to be heard.”

    Source: https://jackiebaillie.laboursites.org/legacy/2018/04/09/waspi_women_to_hold_meeting_in_dumbarton_to_discuss_impact_of_pension_changes/

    From the transcript of a speech in Holyrood on April 4, 2019: ‘Jackie Baillie (Dumbarton) (Lab): “.. I welcome the WASPI campaigners from my constituency and across Scotland who are in the gallery, and I encourage colleagues to meet them after the debate to learn more about the impact on them and WHAT EACH OF US CAN DO TO HELP WITH THE CAMPAIGN.” (My emphasis)

    “More than 2.5 million women who were born in the 1950s have had their state pension age changed WITHOUT FAIR NOTIFICATION —Iin fact, it is probably true to say that many of them have had it changed without any notification at all. Those women deserve recognition for the injustice that they have suffered, an apology for the way in which their complaints have been handled AND COMPENSATION FOR THEIR LOSS.

    And: “I had the pleasure of organising a meeting for WASPI women in Dumbarton to which hundreds upon hundreds of women came. I congratulate my local WASPI groups in Argyll and Bute and West Dunbartonshire. I STAND SIDE BY SIDE WITH THEM TO ADDRESS THE INJUSTICE THAT THEY HAVE EXPERIENCED, AND I ENCOURAGE EVERYONE IN THE PARLIAMENT TO JOIN THE FIGHT. WASPI WOMEN DESERVE JUSTICE.”

    Have journalists at BBC Scotland, STV, the Daily Record, The Herald, The Scotsman etc. asked the obvious questions of the obvious individual on her party leadership’s decision yet and her reaction to the candidly, patronising tone in which it has been announced?

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