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I think making retirement age dependent on genes might be considered somewhat problematic. (Also, only you have your combination of genes.)

People in general are living longer and the proportion of working to non working people is skewing increasingly in favour of the latter. It would be nice if someone trying to gain political power would try to address those issues.

Compulsory death at 80?

The answer is easy: if you want to claim to state pension at 70 or 68 or even 65 fine, but you have to do 7 hours a week national service until you are 71 to qualify. This would comprise civic duties matched to your career/life skills or if you don't have of those whatever dumb useful shit you can do. It would improve the health and wellbeing of those doing it as they forged new communities and bonds and kept stimulated, keeping them fitter for longer. Too rich to participate in all that shit and want to opt-out, that's fine, but you'll need to pay extra tax on your retirement income until you're 71. Nobody will do it of course, but they should.

I'll stop you there.

Mr Cameron? Is that you?
Define civic service? Because what started out as volunteering for the greater good is now, unsurprisingly, being exploited.
After the volunteering success of London 2012, Cameron jumped on the bandwagon with his “big society” bollox which was quickly dropped. But moneymaking enterprises cottoned on that they could get additional people support for nothing.
Silverstone for example now has volunteers supporting the British Grand Prix weekend in the multibillion pound F1 industry.
And either Wembley or UEFA is now recruiting volunteers to work in customer service roles at the Champions League final. Another event awash with money.
Do these voluntary roles count as “civic service”?

Big society was in the 2010 Tory manifesto.

Here's an idea. Put 4% back on NI and lower the retirement age to 65.

Nationalise water, rail, gas and electricity. Profits go back to the gov now instead of shareholders. Introduce a progressive income tax system. Tax big corp properly. Reduce pension age to 63. Done.

2p on income tax. NI on pensions.

Have retirement age at 67 and put some money into services rather than tax cuts.

Thank you Talkback for the continual reminders of why I will never, ever regret leaving that poxy little rock for good.

Does defending statues against non-existent statue attackers count as civic service? I'm sure I can find one oop Bozza to loiter by for a few hours a week if it means I get a pension.

Tax is already way too high as a default. But if you want a free state pension handout from the government (which is basically a form of Universal Basix Income) and you want that aged 65 for 20 years plus until death, 7 hours a week doing something socially useful for a day a week for 5 years (if you're physically able to which most will be) as a trade off for not otherwise being economically active seems like a fair deal to everyone for me. It's not volunteering as such, it's participation with a reward of a sizeable annual cash sub (£11k a year for 7 hours a week suitable work is high pay) and a tax disincentive to opt-out if you are rich enough to be able to do so. So it's not the big society. As to what it would counts as work of civic value, that depends what your skillset is. If you're an accountant it could be helping a small business with state subsided help with their books, if you're a retired teacher it could be helping illiterate adults to read and write, if you're a management/bullshit consultant it could be wiping disabled people's arses. There'd be a list and you'd be allocated something appropriate and local.

Abolish NI and merge into income tax. Abolish the state and public sector pensions. Introduce UBI and the state ceases to have any interest in when any given person wants or needs to retire.

I will not be taking questions.

Sounds like really shit sequel to Logan's Run.