None of us are WASPI women
Women wanted pension age 60 back
Our Mothers and Grans got pension age 60
STOP BEING LED BY WASPI
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August 14, 2025,
Admin Grey Swans' PERSONAL OPINION - WHY WASPI LTD NEEDS TO CEASE NOW
- ..."Trudy Baddams
26 April, 2018 (not her belief at all)
..."today"..."Chris Williams (Admin Grey Swans) for meeting up with me at Houses of Parliament, interesting chats with ex postie who became MP ...
Trudy Baddams - April 30, 2018
- ..... just thinking back about the day at the Houses of Parliament "I met with Chris Williams we chatted while we waited for Margaret, and along came Hugh Gaffney (ex postie), Chris Williams asked if he was an MP, he stood chatting to us for a long while, ... he too was amazed at the lack of menfolk fighting with us, he thinks men don't even know about their own pension age increase.
- After he left we sat and people watched, we saw several known faces but couldn't put names to them except of cause David Gauke... (Chris Williams told by Trudy Baddams that he was no longer pension minister by then).
- Then the meeting.....
MY PERSONAL TESTIMONY OF WHAT HAPPENED IN THAT MEETING Thursday 26 April 2018
- In a committee room of parliament (26 April 2018) ...
I (Admin Grey Swans) successfully campaigned for another pension campaign group’s aim, to a room full of WASPI Ltd Admins from all over the country. - This in the teeth of the incitement to verbal bullying by a woman Labour MP to the WASPI Ltd admin ladies to a single national top admin of that other pension campaign group. Bringing her to tears.
- The woman Labour MP then ordered the tearful old lady out of the room, screaming 'Get Out'. All I could do was promote her aim to the WASPI Ltd ladies and pat her sympathetically on the arm, before she left the room in great upset as a bullying victim.
- But I did succeed afterwards in promoting that aim to the WASPI Ltd admins I met in a cafe opposite Euston railway station.
August 5, 2025, 08:30am
- Admin Grey Swans - STOP PAYING YOUR MEMBERSHIP INTO WASPI LTD - The easiest way to make WASPI Ltd defunct, is to challenge their wrong information about the state pension, which they say in newspapers and on the radio and on television, including the new GB News. Showing their name WASPI which include the words State Pension Injustice has always been a lie. WASPI Ltd was never about pension age rise in a formal legal way.
August 4, 2025, 8:30am
- Admin Grey Swans - I know us old ladies had no protest marching experience and allowed WASPI Ltd, with their expensive big banners, to get out in front of our march at the anti austerity marches funded by trade unions. We could not afford the costs else. We were not marching in support solely of WASPI Ltd’s viewpoint.
- We were all the pension campaign groups at the same time.
- WASPI Ltd at a Tory conference in Birmingham one year simply ignored the Tory delegates walking through our 1950s ladies’ multi-pension-campaigners group, not making any effort to demand any delegate to have a peaceful, quiet word with us old ladies.
- WASPI Ltd simply stood with their backs to the public and anti-austerity marchers at the various demos over the decade of campaigning, which I attended between 2015 and 2019.
August 3, 2025, 8:>30am
- Admin Grey Swans - WASPI Ltd are not even a quarter of 1950s pension campaign activists and who appear in the media, and not the invisible WASPI 2018 splinter group. Only WASPI Ltd charges a membership fee.
- I know us old ladies had no protest marching experience and allowed WASPI Ltd, with their expensive big banners, to get out in front of our march at the anti austerity marches funded by trade unions. We could not afford the costs else.
- We were not marching in support solely of WASPI Ltd’s viewpoint.
- We were all the pension campaign groups at the same time.
August 2, 2025, 8:30am
- Admin Grey Swans - WASPI Ltd’s leaders appear on television and radio and constantly get the history of state pension wrong.
- A leader of WASPI Ltd appeared on GB News and talked as if an expert on works pension systems, when WASPI Ltd never had any knowledge of any pension system, not even the state pension, about which WASPI Ltd never campaigned.
August 1, 2025, 8:30am
- Admin Grey Swans - WASPI Ltd was and remains only the maladministration case against the Department of Works and Pensions to the Ombudsman for not sending us 1950s ladies a letter back in 1995 when that pension act was passed by the Tories. WASPI Ltd is only around £1,000 compensation to the 6 sample ladies investigated by the Ombudsman.
August 1, 2025, 9:22am
- Admin Grey Swans - What WASPI Ltd failed to realise - Us 1950s, 1960s, 1970s and 1980s born ladies were not told about pension age rises between 1991 and 2014.
- November 1993 Tory budget held intention to raise women's pension age from 60 to 65.
- 1995 pension act was taken to high court by men seeking pension age 60 for men, which they lost. Those court papers marked secret for 70 years.
- 2004 Finance Act (Labour) rose early access to works pension age from 50 to 55. Lib Dems brought that in 2010, so all those years of not telling us.
- 2007 pension act (Labour) rose pension ages to 66, 67 and 68.
- 1950s ladies had both 1995 and 2007 pension act hit them at the same time from 2013 through the 2011 pension act.
- More 1960s ladies were drawn into pension age 67 by 2014 pension act, so hit by 1995, 2007 and 2015 acts.
- 1970s born were not told about 2007 pension act that rose their pension age to 67.
- 1980s born were not told about 2007 pension act that rose their pension age to 68.
July 30, 2025 at 2:48pm
- Admin Grey Swans - Corbyn said on Sky News, I believe, that WASPI women were short-changed. All 1950s ladies are not WASPI women.
- WASPI Ltd’s leaders appear on any media and say 1950s ladies accepted women’s pension age rise for half a decade of non-payment of state pension. Wrong. The plaintiffs cry at demos was ‘I just want my (state) pension’.
- When WASPI Ltd had its initial meetings around 2015, personal testimony of ladies attending said there was talk of campaigning on getting women’s pension age 60 back, but that soon ended as a WASPI Ltd campaign.
- WASPI Ltd was and remains only the maladministration case against the Department of Works and Pensions to the Ombudsman for not sending us 1950s ladies a letter back in 1995 when that pension act was passed by the Tories. That campaign has failed after a decade now.
February 21, 2022
- Admin GREY SWANS ...WASPI Ltd (the original one) ..."is firmly in favour of the equalisation of pensions; the problem was the fact that notification was at best patchy, at worst non-existent."... Is not what 1950s ladies believe, after we signed a near 1m signature for women's pension age to go back to 60, which is the only hope for the 1960s born ladies, turning 60 since plague year of 2020.
- WASPI Yorkshire shows the age discrimination between us 1950s born ladies and our mothers and grandmothers, who got pension at 60, is what caused our misery, not the lack of communication.
- ..."In the case of Catherine, a psychiatric nurse, this resulted in her working nights for nine years whilst family looked after her children. Both Catherine and Carol were eager to stress that this was not about women not wanting to work. But in many cases, it had resulted in many of those caught in the trap having to take poorly paid or zero-hour contracts.
- “Many people have sold houses to raise funds, but this has left them at the mercy of often high rents and poorer housing. In some cases, you have had the situation of 60-something-year-old women sofa surfing or sleeping in their car.”...
Source:
24. In 1991, the Government announced its intention to equalise State Pension age. In December 1991 it published a consultation document, ‘Options for Equality in State Pension Age’, which described the policy rationale for the change, options for taking the policy forward and the financial effects of the change. The Government received over 4,000 responses to the consultation.