This is just the start of Project Fear part 2 in advance of IndyRef II. It's also distraction behaviour to take the heat off Johnson.
The whole issue of pensions was sorted out quite clearly and unequivocally before IndyRef I. However, if your intention is to prevent independence at any cost then resurrecting a lie to sow a seed of worry is a pretty standard way to go about it.
The extract below is from Paul Kavanagh's blog of 4 February 2022.
On 7 May 2014, the then UK pensions minister Steve Webb told the Scottish Affairs Committee in the House of Commons that older people would be entitled to continue receiving the current state pension even in an independent Scotland. He acknowledged that there would have to be a negotiation between Holyrood and Westminster about how these pensions would be administered, but assured the committee that Westminster would continue to have an obligation to pay the pensions to existing pensioners. When asked by a Labour MP if the pensions of existing pensioners would be secure following a Yes vote, Steve Webb confirmed that this was the case, saying “Yes, they have accumulated rights into the UK system, under the UK system’s rules.”
Then he added, “Take a Scottish person who works all their life and then retires to France… they still have an accumulated pension right in respect of the National Insurance they have paid in when they were part of the United Kingdom.”
Please know that this is a quite wilful attempt by the Tories to deceive the Scottish people. They and the other nay-saying parties used fear to spread doubt prior to
IndyRef I. Do not let them away with it this time around.
Remember the old proverb, - "fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me".
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