One in six own shares; most now have private pensions.
I'd quite like it if we could overhaul private pensions too.
The issue here is that private pensions are a nice way to raise capital for the city to "play" with.
And of course the workers in the public sector help pay £32bn pa to support private pensions.
Would that be bigger than Brown's raid on everybody who had a private pension?
Rights to occupational and private pensions are built up during the individual's employment.
The whole problem was created when Brown raided private pensions.
It argued for private pensions, something achieved 30 years later.
Social Security benefits would be taxed more like private pensions.
The creation of single markets in energy, private pensions and the media industry has yet to be achieved.