Dying Younger Helps the Economy

Life expectancy in the sunlit uplands is falling at a sufficiently precipitous rate that His Majesty's Government feels it can afford to postpone robbing the elderly of another few years' income, at least for a while. A decade and a half of efficiency measures means that the estimated cost of the state pension is falling, so the next mugging has been put off until after the general election. Among the beastly Euro-wogs there have been riots over a planned increase in the pension age from four to two years below the mainland level; but any suggestion that this unruliness may have affected the Government's decision fails to do justice either to the occult potency of the migrant hordes or to the moderational sensibilities of His Majesty's Loyal Opposition.