Gorse Fox wonders at the irony: Brown accused of pension sabotage. Apparently:

Chancellor Gordon Brown has been accused of trying to scupper proposals for the future of pensions before they are even published.

Well, that bit is understandable... he's tried to scupper existing pension schemes by stealing £5Bn per year from them. But then we hear:

Mr Brown is believed to oppose raising the state pension age to pay for restoring the pensions-earnings link.

On Thursday night, he said reforms must be "sustainable, fair and affordable".

Well, Gorse Fox suggests that if he wants them to be fair, he changes MPs pensions so that they mirror the average private pension afforded to the rest of us. That would be FAIR... and then the rest of us would feel a little happier about him fiddling while our pensions burn (a hole in his pocket).

[File under: Pensions, Gordon Brown]