Kofi Annan, Nobel Peace Prize winner, 3 mins on the 10 o clock news;
Aretha Franklin, pop singer, 12 minutes on 10 o clock news.   And a reprise at the close etc etc
Dumbing down ?  Don't make me laugh !    "We need to appeal to the young" sounds OK but "the young" hardly know Aretha. We were all moved by Mr Annan's brave attempts to bring sanity to a mad world. He is surely the one that deserves R.E.S.P.E.C.T. ?

A little thought on the part of the pension staff in Cardif could have saved at least the postage on last week's bit of bumff. Today arrived the Annual summary £1bn in the red if scheme were to need to pay out everything. So maybe Victor was right!

What we must all remember is that chap Gordon Brown who denuded us all from being members of a pension scheme that was capable of paying every member of it whether working or not, and still have leftover a substantial amount in reserve. Never should be forgotten or forgiven - shear jealosy despite knowing that he would have a mega payout evenif he had only been a member of his parliamentary scheme for a matter of days - & that was non contributory. I'm sure he can sit back on his laurels now - hope they are prickly!

75pence! Small beer once our pension increases are forced onto the C.P.I. method!
Dave

apcwmwl wrote on Aug 14^th, 2018, 4:15pm:


That is a very kind offer. Perhaps you could send the 75p to a charity of your choice on my behalf?

We are indeed lucky to have such a good Pension Scheme, but that does not mean it should not be accountable to scrutiny.

I was concerned about what I thought was an unnecessary cost to the Pension Scheme. I can understand promoting the online method, but it does not require a pen and a coloured leaflet to do that, and to send it to members that are already signed up..

Do you know for a fact it cost 75p per person to design and print the leaflet, buy the pen and post it out? You seem very sensitive to my posting. Perhaps you are a Trustee or one of the marketing team?

Do you know the overall cost?  There are over 50,000 members of the Scheme, which as a rough guess makes this marketing excercise cost £37,500.

If you are really that concerned, I'll send you the 75p which it cost!

You really don't understand V Meldrew, the everlasting self perpetuating oligarchy that was and still is "the BBC". We get very reasonable service from Pensions so stop moaning!

Just a quicky: especially to John W: Did your manager never tell you that BBC pens are set to self destruct 11 minutes after use?

Hi, Lloyd! I loved your drama!

I joined partly so I could rant at that stupid, rubber-band-powered thing that snaps into a cube when you take it out of its envelope. Purpose apparently to make me aware of and encourage me to log into the online BBC pensions site (which I already had done way before getting this mailing).

Who ever thought this sort of gimmick was appropriate for BBC Pensions? Just stupid.