Kelvin Mackenzie on the WASPI whiners – “We shouldn’t give them a penny!!!”

/ Mike Buchanan

Kelvin Mackenzie was a guest on Michelle Dewberry’s GB News show Dewbs & Co. this evening, video of the show here. At 27:33 Dewberry started the piece on compensation for women who (allegedly) hadn’t bothered to check out the age at which they’d start to draw the state pension. We then had to suffer two minutes of a WASPI whiner wittering on. At 29:45 Dewberry turned to Mackenzie for his reaction, which started well with this remark by him:

“We shouldn’t give them a penny!!!”

A good point, well made, I thought. It’s worth listening to the ensuing discussion.

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6 thoughts on “Kelvin Mackenzie on the WASPI whiners – “We shouldn’t give them a penny!!!””

  1. The actuarial profession calculate insurance, pensions, betting odds etc. on probability and expectancy. These women should be happy that they don’t have to work five years longer than men, given their life expectancies. How do these selfish, self-entitled, spoilt women have the brass neck to complain about this ?

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  2. I don’t understand this. the issue was raised in the mid 90s. I know because I remember the issue raised when the EU introduced parity with pension age for men and women. Plenty of notice had been given for women to increase their contribution voluntary in order achieve this parity.

    I know this because my mother was in this position and I made the extra voluntary payments to help her.

    in the long term their life expantacy is greater than men ( including quality of life). they can take chunks out of a mans pension pot during a divorce which he needs to avoid poverty..

    if they want to scream about equality, then how about they leave our pensions alone, and step up for themselves?

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    • Thanks Rob. As usual women take no interest in personal financial matters until the opportunity presents itself to take money from others. Shameless entitlement, enabled by Rebecca Hilsenrath, the Chief Exec of the ombudsman, and others. I haven’t heard even one person in the MSM make the point that they’re demanding money never available to men in the first place!!!

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  3. Well done Kelvin. I know of none of my contemporaries, male or female (and mainly female as I worked in Health and Social Care) who didn’t take a keen interest in pension info from their mid fifties. I have to say all the women I’ve seen interviewed from WASPI have had jobs and refer to both their state and occupational pension. So both the DWP and their employer and pension provider will have been informing them of the ’95 implications as they unfolded, as did HMRC with info about NI and the effects on NI contributions. So he is quite right it is very unlikely any of this was a complete surprise. And of course the process was simply a phased way of putting right a gross piece of sexism! In fact in terms of numbers and financial effect probably the biggest direct discrimination full stop. For not only did it effect the state pension, but a whole slew of concessions, free services and benefits that were linked to the state pension age.

    I note that the “public” response is represented as being that men think the women had at least some responsibility to keep informed while the women believe they should have been spoon fed info. Meaning the latter are either just wanting more free money or more charitably believe women need their hand holding as they cannot be responsible for themselves. Of course men’s pension age has also increased.

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