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Letters / A local pension

Oh don’t you love a bit of honesty! Pity it’s conspicuous by its absence in the UK/Scotland independence debate.

Will you or won’t you get your UK pension if Scotland votes yes?

Well, according to Douglas Young you will (A few simple mistakes; SN, 08/05/14), because one MP says so.

He even invites you to open and free discussion on his Yes Glasgow Facebook page, forgetting, maybe or just telling porkies about the free and open discussion because you have to be of the same opinion as Douglas before you are allowed to discuss anything on his Yes Glasgow page.

Now let’s think about state pensions. You will get it if you pay into the national insurance scheme, payments that will stop in the event of a Yes vote.

NO LIFETIME OF PAYMENTS – NO PENSION. IT MEANS THAT FOLK IN THEIR 40s AND 50s WILL NOT GET THE STATE PENSION.

It really is quite simple to figure it out. And it does make you fear for the future if you have no provision outwith the state.

Now to the pound. Of course we can use it, but it would be the currency of a foreign country and not our own, so we would have no control over inflation or interest rates, which is not a desirable position to be in.

An independent Shetland can afford your pension, it will guarantee your pension by investing the oil money for all time; in fact it is the only way to guarantee a pension, because those to the south are fiscally and morally broke.

Ali Inkster
Hamnavoe

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