Retirement Age....

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-11820660

It's so nice to see that the people at the British Medical Journal have been spending their much needed time researching into a worth while cause - the effects of retiring earlier in the UK - and have come up with the conclusion that it would indeed benefit us to retire earlier like the French.

Well, thank you very much Sherlock Holmes' of the modern world - that information is duly noted. But please tell me - are you honestly saying you needed to put yourself through 4 years of University and waste a load of your time researching and interviewing the public to come to that conclusion? I could have easily told you that over a pint down the local in 5 minutes.

No wonder the UK is in trouble if it deems this to be crucial knowledge the public cannot do without and is apparently the area that we need to be spending (wasting rather) our much needed money on. Is anything going to come of this survey? Is the Tory party going to sit up, take note and decide that in fact the retirement age should indeed be lowered to 55?

Me thinks not - it is almost like the dangling a juicy bit of meat in front of an animal, getting it all excited then whipping it away and saying 'you'd like that wouldn't you? Shame your not going to get any of it though.......'

Total waste of time - and I didn't even need to use 4 years of my life researching into how useless these surveys really are!