1978 Labour ended state second pension mostly against women
Labour leaders didn't tell us Tories talking between 1993 and 1995 about women's pension age rise to 65
Labour government 1997-2010 didn't get rid of Tory 1995 pension act raising women's pension age to 65.
Labour government added further pension age rise of 66, 67 and 68 from 2007 pension act
Labour continued lack of prior version Triple lock rise throughout government 1997 to 2010. Example, 1999 only rose by 75p per week.
Equality of Pension Age 60 for Men Denied by Labour
..."When planning the first Sex Discrimination Act (1975) in the early 1970s, it is believed that Barbara Castle (Labour government Minister) had wished to include an
equal state pension age of 60 (for men same as women) in its remit, but later dropped this idea when
(Labour) Prime Minister Jim Callaghan responded with ‘do you want me to bankrupt the country?’ Nor did it feature in the subsequent
1984 Sex Discrimination Act."...
Right wing Labour had won power over the party again by then.
(Source PARITY formerly CESPA men's equality group)
We know that subsequent governments would not have risen men's pension age, as done against women.
The history of the top waged, mostly men, paying from 2003 only 1 per cent, then 2 per cent from 2011 onwards, on top wages (above maximum salary threshold) for worker National Insurance contributions, is another discrimination done by Labour in their governments. It meant if the rich had paid full worker National Insurance contributions on ALL their wages, then better state pension money and pension age 60 could easily have been afforded.
CONTRACTED IN NATIONAL INSURANCE RATES
The description by Labour MP Gerald Kaufman (b.1930) of Labour's 1983 election manifesto as the longest suicide note in history, shows Labour again enemies of the state pension.
1983 Labour manifesto included pension policies of :
Link to manifesto CLICK HERE