No! Especially not for manual workers. I know these days we have very little heavy industry left
* Cough Cough ThanksEU Cough Cough * but can you imagine still being expected to do heavy lifting and long hard hours with it, till the age of 75?
It maybe wouldn’t be so bad for office dwellers but no, it certainly wouldn’t be fair to expect someone to do heavy work until they’re 75.
If older people want to carry on and do a little job after the age of 65, that’s fair enough but no, forcing people to work until the age of 75 is just unfair, especially when they’ll have paid into the system for near enough 50 years by then.
Besides which, we have young families where both parents are having to work, sometimes a couple of low paid, part time jobs to make ends meet as it is, extending the retirement age till 75 would make that situation worse, imo.
That said however, i worry greatly that having successive governments prepared to see our industries die and the skills with them, that we will, very soon have no time served skilled craftsmen left. i would like to see those we have left, offered decent money to pass those skills on to as many kids/young adults as possible, while they still can, so that we will still have the ability to return to those skills should the need arise.
I certainly don’t think we should have politicians picking up a fortune in salaries until they drop out of the tree either and they certainly shouldn’t be getting such huge pensions at our expense and no doubt, many of them, being over 65 will also be picking up the ordinary state pension on top because none of them seem to think they take enough money off us :/ personally, i wouldn’t give tuppence ha’penny for any of them, let alone their platinum pensions.