Eurocrats are busy telling member countries that they will have to increase pension ages to reduce the massive financial burden of their ageing populations. Of course, there is one exception to this advice – the EU bureaucracy. They will keep their extraordinarily generous, full-pension, early retirement for all their staff so none will have to work beyond sixty and many will be able to take it easy in their mid-fifties.
‘Work till you die’ is their message to us, while they can live a life of luxury at our expense. It’s a pity neither Cameron nor Clegg seem to want the eurocrats to share the pain of the Age of Austerity.