JOIN THE CAMPAIGN TO SHRED JOHN PRESCOTT’S £1.5M PENSION
Tonight on the Liberal Democrat Voice website, Stephen Tall reported on Harriet Harman’s announcement that the Government would legislate retrospectively to terminate Sir Fred’s £650,000 a year pension – only months after it was approved by Labour Business Minister Lord Myners.
Stephen also raised an issue which somehow Ms Harman conveniently left out of her BBC interview, which is the retirement pensions of Cabinet Ministers.
He said that if Treasury lawyers are going to be examining the legality of Sir Fred’s bonanza, perhaps they could apply the same level of rigour to the retirement entitlements of the entire Cabinet and many who have left it, including Tony Blair.
John Prescott demands there should be no reward for failure, and quite right, so might we, the taxpayers, expect a partial refund of his pension pot, worth the equivalent of more than £1.5 million? Stephen Tall has created a new Facebook group, Shred John Prescott’s Pension
As Deputy Prime Minister, John Prescott was often ridiculed – remember the jokes about “Two Jags Prescott”, and, in 1999, as Secretary of State for Transport, Mr Prescott was criticised for taking an official car 250 yards from his hotel to the Labour party conference centre.
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