Thought I'd start a new thread as this is going to be a major talking point this year...have not made up my mind yet...(unlike bucksfizz)....but thinking of voting for an exit as Europe is not doing Britain any good at all it seems....

i'ld strongly question the actuality, never mind the legality of withdrawing someone's pension on the basis that they have criticised the eu regime

They could freeze them like we do with our ex pats.

We don't freeze pensions of ex pats as a matter of course. We do it for a small number of countries where we have no bilateral agreement such as Australia, New Zealand and Canada. The rest get the normal increases.

There are 12m pensioners living in countries where their pension is fully indexed including the UK. Non indexed pensioners amount to 500,000 and half of those live in Austalia.

freeze as in level rather than refuse to pay out at all i take it

Yes level with no increases. You get it paid no matter where you go.

The unfrozen countries are all of the EU and

Alderney
Macedonia
Barbados
Puerto Rico
Bermuda
Republic of Bosnia
Herzegovina
French Overseas Departments
Republic of Croatia
Guam
Sark
Guernsey
Samoa
Israel
Serbia & Montenegro
Jamaica
Turkey
Jersey
United States of America
Mauritius
Virgin Islands (USA)
Philippines

cynic try this link to the express of June 2009....It's regarding the Kinnocks EU gravy train ride, scroll halfway down the article.

express.co.uk/news/uk/107438/Lord-Lady-kinnock-s-10m-Euro-gravy-train


'He also qualifies for a pension which pays out 83,089 pounds a year and would cost 1.16 million to buy in the private sector. The terms require him to remain supportive of the EU project."

That also applies to others who have EU pensions......ITS ONE BIG GRAVY TRAIN, AND ENCOURAGES THOSE IN THE EU'S HOLD TO BETRAY THEIR OWN COUNTRIES....

i wonder if they got sepp blatter's lawyers to draw up the contracts

When I was looking in to the EU several years ago, it was then that I read(can't remember/find details now) about the terms and obligations of the EX employee's and remaining loyal to Brussels instead of their country, If they wished to keep receiving their EU pensions...Same with Clegg!

Sensible criticism can be supportive.

Compared with bankers, hedge funders, footballers and share gamblers, are their salaries and pensions disproportionate.

(Or those who are living off trust fund money earnt by others.)

There is a smell of jealousy about many postings.

unwarranted fred (re jealousy), even if their salaries and pensions are tax free

more to the point is the time-unlimited covenant that their pension may be forfeit if they say anything against eu and its governance etc
i would have thought this fell under the rules of unfair contract

I could'nt give a flying frick what you smell...If those who try to scaremonger us into voting to stay in a corrupt, undemocratic, unaccountable organisation and who's opinion IS grossly biased then the sooner we get out of that place!!!.....

It seems true. This is from 2009

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/labour/4996440/Lord-Mandelson-must-remain-loyal-to-EU-to-guarantee-pension.html

i'm quite surprised that no one in the (official) "out" camp has brought this up

It won't matter as we will end up staying in.

i (think i) fear you are correct

I think your both wrong (and that is not wishful thinking)

It does annoy me that a lot of these politicians are just thinking of their own pocket ,i always thought they were such an honest bunch.

I think fear will keep us in. I wish we would leave but the British are a timid nation that frightens easily.

You poor little mouse.

I would think mutual gain from being in the EU would be the driving force for the UK staying in.

Work for reforms from within the organisation, instead of constant bleating how unfairly you think the others are treating the UK.

It is sounding more like a dormitory of overgrown school children with bully boys telling ghost stories.