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Not at all "like the rest of us".

  http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/prince-charles-is-turning-65--and-still-awaiting-his-key-job-is-he-a-guiding-light-for-the-postretirement-work-era-8937573.html  Prince Charles at 65: A portfolio of jobs and no plans to retire, so he's just like the rest of us The Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall   The headline reads: " .....so he's just like the rest of us". Yes of course he is. He and "Parker Bowles" regularly visit the Kensington Foodbank to get their weekly rations and they frequently switch energy suppliers in the naive belief that they might get a better deal from another cartel member. Every 4 weeks, when his pension is paid into which ever bank account he has nominated for that purpose, he takes his "Casio" calculator and works out to the nearest penny, whether he and the Mrs. can afford to have that pound of meat for a liver and bacon treat they have been thinking about, or whether that spar...

The young v The Pensioners?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree Divide and rule: this time between generations. Ros Altman actually believing the divisive propaganda of the IFS and then reproducing it on the pages of The Guardian. She would have a difficult time convincing the pensioners who have to choose between heat or eat, and those who face social and economic difficulties every day, that this is just an attempt to create yet another division in society. "The massive rise in State Pensions" was true only in the cash amount paid. In real terms it represented at best, a neutral impact on living standards of the majority of pensioners. Yesterday, (Tuesday 26th), in response to the story carried by the Independent, I wrote in another place, "The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) trotting out the usual garbage. The Governments policy of divide and rule spreads to all corners of the "public information" industry. This garbage would be a credit to the J...