AT last, a report in the media stating what I have written about on a few occasions when this government keeps raising the retirement age – manual workers such as electrical and material handlers, are twice as likely, and bricklayers, scaffolders, roofers and many more manual workers three times more likely to develop rheumatoid arthritis as they get older than office staff, and other white collar workers, including members of parliament.

Yet they still keep raising the retirement age.

Anybody can sit imitating sheep with subsidised meals and drink, a fantastic pension to look forward to, free travel etc until you are 100 plus, but if they try doing what I have highlighted above, they would then think twice on their vote.

I have said before, we have the highest retirement age in the EU, we are in the bottom five for pension rewards, yet we are the fifth richest country in the world, but they still keep saying that we are all in this together. I rest my case.

D Dunbar, Sherburn Village