OUR PENSIONS FIGHT CONTINUES!
Over the weekend, thousands of us piled on the pressure on the Government ahead of the Bill’s Second Reading in Parliament yesterday. 6000 of us sent emails to our MPs, and hundreds more picked up the phone to ask their MPs to vote ‘no’ and stop the Bill.
Unfortunately, we lost that vote in Parliament last night. Labour MPs opposed the Bill, but most Tories and Lib Dems voted for it to go through. You can see how your MP voted here.
But we have not lost this fight yet. The Bill will now go to a Committee of MPs where it can be amended. And the pressure on the government is mounting - MPs from all the Parties stood up in Parliament to tell them that they’ve got it wrong.
We’re going to be stepping up our campaign over the next few weeks to try and change the Bill before it comes back again to the House of Commons for final approval. We want to make sure that the Government gets the message that these changes are unfair, and they have to think again.
What’s your message to the Government on state pensions? We’ll post some of your messages on our blog, and we’ll send a selection of the best ones to government ministers like Iain Duncan Smith, Steve Webb and George Osborne and, of course, to Cameron and Clegg themselves.
