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The Great Pensions Robbery: How the Politicians Betrayed Retirement

The Great Pensions Robbery: How the Politicians Betrayed Retirement

by Alex Brummer (Author)

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    Paperback 2011

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Synopsis

Once Britain's pensions system was admired around the world. Now it is in tatters, and vast numbers of us face the grim choice of enduring a poverty-stricken future or working until we drop. What on earth went wrong? In The Great Pensions Robbery, award-winning journalist Alex Brummer ventures into the corridors of power to find out how politicians bent on penny-pinching, a bullied and ineffectual civil service, and highly placed but unscrupulous individuals all played their part in fatally undermining a 100-year-old system. And, as he convincingly argues, the story is very far from being over.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 238
 Publisher: Random House Business
Published: 03 Feb 2011
ISBN 10: 1847940382
ISBN 13: 9781847940384
Book Overview: A devastating and gripping account of the pension system scandal - one of the great government scandals of our time.

Media Reviews
An easy read with a strong message * Financial World *
Written in the style of a gripping thriller * Pensions World *
An impressively detailed examination ... also well worth a read for its breezy history of the government's role in pensions, from the creation of the first state pension in 1909 to the present day * Pensions Week *
Author Bio
Alex Brummer is one of the UK's leading financial journalists and commentators. After a long and successful stint at the Guardian he moved to be City Editor at the Daily Mail in 2000. He has won prizes both as a foreign correspondent and economics writer. Awards received include Business Journalist of the Year 2006, Newspaper Journalist 2002 and Best City Journalist 2000. His books include Hanson: A Biography (Fourth Estate, 1994), Weinstock: The Life and Times of Britain's Premier Industrialist (HarperCollins, 1998) and The Crunch (Random House, 2008).