The Great Pensions Robbery

How the Politicians Betrayed Retirement

Alex Brummer

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Random House Business Books
15 February 2011

Political parties; Central government; Financial crises & disasters; Pensions

A devastating and gripping account of the pension system scandal - one of the great government scandals of our time.

Once Britain's pensions system was admired around the world. Now it is in tatters, and vast numbers of us face the grim choice of enduring a poverty-stricken future or working until we drop. What on earth went wrong?

In The Great Pensions Robbery, award-winning journalist Alex Brummer ventures into the corridors of power to find out how politicians bent on penny-pinching, a bullied and ineffectual civil service, and highly placed but unscrupulous individuals all played their part in fatally undermining a 100-year-old system. And, as he convincingly argues, the story is very far from being over.

By: Alex Brummer
Imprint: Random House Business Books
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 16mm
Weight: 181g
ISBN: 9781847940384
ISBN 10: 1847940382
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 15 February 2011
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Alex Brummer is one of the UK's leading financial journalists and commentators. After a long and successful stint at the Guardian he moved to be City Editor at the Daily Mail in 2000. He has won prizes both as a foreign correspondent and economics writer. Awards received include Business Journalist of the Year 2006, Newspaper Journalist 2002 and Best City Journalist 2000. His books include Hanson- A Biography (Fourth Estate, 1994), Weinstock- The Life and Times of Britain's Premier Industrialist (HarperCollins, 1998) and The Crunch (Random House, 2008).

Reviews for The Great Pensions Robbery: How the Politicians Betrayed Retirement

An easy read with a strong message * Financial World * Written in the style of a gripping thriller * Pensions World * An impressively detailed examination ... also well worth a read for its breezy history of the government's role in pensions, from the creation of the first state pension in 1909 to the present day * Pensions Week *