Some of the photos from this evenings Silent March by the WASPI women filmed by the BBC.. we met up at the Emeline Pankhurst statue outside parliament then gathered in the media corner for the BBC reporter to film us.... we will get heard and are being heard globally but Mrs May is still not acknowledging our call for our State Pension.
"eh! eh! Mrs May
how many more have you robbed today!"
Some of the women cover their faces as that is how they feel - faceless and voiceless as government choose to ignore the call for help and amendment of polices and some compensation for the sudden shift in pension age. Many women are being pushed into poverty and needing the financial dignity of their state pension. We have after all paid in and so now is the time for government to pay out.... what we paid in and continue to pay in as taxpayers is NOT a mathematical illusion as one Tory back bencher suggested in the 14th December 2017 debate in response to our petition... it is a concrete fact that our payslips verify! What is paid out to us will circulate back to the treasury in VAT on goods we can buy. At the moment traders are suffering as we have not got the spendability anymore! Many have lost their foothold on work some life weary with chronic illness others have been caring for older parents.
Some of the Tories have suggested that we get apprenticeships if we are out of work... I personally have worked since 1969 and this is an insult to me... I think Consultant post and a Consultant to government would be a better suggestion!! But read my Women's Voices to be heard blog to see why I am not the woman of substance I should have been and could have been...but really need my State Pension to give some financial dignity.
Thank you to the BBC for taking an interest in our cause and helping to get Women's Voices Heard.. I have done a piece to camera - and hope it is not edited but the film as to be taken down to an 8 mins broadcast... So hope there is a follow through on the campaign to get women domestic violence survivors voices heard too. My campaign is intertwined with the problem of reaching 64yrs with no assets. The state pension would give me some financial dignity & peace!
More and more young people are getting alarmed for the fact we are being treated like this - worked all our lives then denied our State Pension and Mrs May not listening. This is a group of our cheerleaders from the USA on holiday that joined us in Parliament Square.. How a society treats the elderly is total measure of that society and a society without compassion ceases to be a society. Many of the younger generation are saying hang on I do not want mothers and grandmothers treated like this...!!!
It was very alarming and but somewhat an example of the lack of compassion the Tories have... that Theresa Villiers Tory MP for Chipping Barnet came out of the Downing street gates and walked with nose up in the air passed the WASPI women at the gates...This is so shameful that Tory MPs cannot come to the people and listen and help them... the most precious asset any leader and government have is the people, the citizens of the land, the voters... so it is somewhat stupid to ignore the voters pain from mal policies... better to listen and reform the policies to lessen or stop that pain in society....
