Editor

Your coverage of the pensions appeal for Waspi women (Cambrian News, 12 March), is a good example of how governments, particularly Tory, take advantage of a ‘good crisis’.

We never ceased to hear how Labour was responsible for the huge expenditure incurred in bailing out the banks. But we never heard how the Tories urged greater financial deregulation before the financial crash, or that the taxpayer was picking up the tab for the banking greed of the Tory friends in the city.

EU gender equalisation law was the catalyst for pension equality, and that directive was intended to be progressive, economically and culturally, but it was Austerity, personified by George Osborne that was the government’s excuse for a wide range of ‘essential economies’, particularly women’s pensions.

Anne Widdecombe, who scorned the pension campaigners as ‘Whingers’, was the work and pensions secretary when the changes were advanced, and is from the same stable as ‘The quiet Man’, and one-time Tory leader, Ian Duncan Smith, architect of another injustice, Universal Credit.

Roger Louvet Porthmadog

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