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I read in The Economist that the No vote was bolstered by Scottish pensioners who fear for their retirement funds. It's inevitable that the referendum will occ
by hackerboos 12y ago
I read in The Economist that the No vote was bolstered by Scottish pensioners who fear for their retirement funds.
It's inevitable that the referendum will occur again (probably under a Tory majority government) and with those said pensioners not around; you'll get the result you wanted.
- linker3000 12y agoPensioners are not a finite resource.
- UVB-76 12y agoPensioners with considerable state pensions are unfortunately a dying breed.
- mike_hearn 12y agoEr, I know life expectancy in Scotland isn't great but you realise the dead pensioners will be replaced by new ones, right?
- BSousa 12y agoWon't you just have other pensioners then? I read something along those lines somewhere else as well saying in 10/20 years all the old folks will be gone and they yes will win, but hasn't history shown us that idealistic young just turn to realistic oldies with time?
- jiggy2011 12y agoBy then there will be new people of pension age, but they won't have actual pensions.