July 22, 2025 • 3 mins
Over in the UK, the Government is looking into a review of the state pension age to see if it needs to be increased.
The review will consider whether the current state pension age - currently 66 - is still appropriate, based on factors such as life expectancy.
UK correspondent Enda Brady says this comes as Denmark pushes the pension age back to 70, and it's raised some concerns.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
In the Brady UK correspondence with us Hello.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Inda, Hey Heather, how are you?
Speaker 1 (00:04):
I am well, thank you. So what do you make
of the UK reviewing the pension age.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Well, they do this every six years and I think
a lot of people will be watching this and just
thinking can they push it back any further? So we
now at the moment in the UK you get the
state pension at the age of sixty six that you've
paid into all your working life. In twenty twenty eight,
it's already set in stone. It's moving to sixty seven
(00:28):
for a man, so you have to be sixty seven
in twenty twenty eight, and they already have a plan
to push it back to sixty eight by the year
twenty forty six. Now all eyes have been focused on
this recently because Denmark have just pushed the pension age
back to seventy Believe it or not, Denmark are really
kind of leading the way in Europe. Basically government's wanting
(00:51):
you to work forever and it's I mean, when you
look at what the French do and what the Greeks do,
you'd be very kind of angry if you were a
war man or woman in Denmark having to go all
the way to seventy. So what the UK is doing,
they're just kind of trying to focus people's minds. One
statistic just to give you on this, three million self
employed people in the UK are not saving into a pension.
(01:14):
I don't know what they think they're going to live
on when they eventually retire.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
Yeah, is this going to be like, are you people
going to get upset about it? Or actually have you
got so used to this thing being pushed out you're
sort of take it in your stride.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
I think people in the UK take it in their stride.
It's the same people as far as I can see,
paying for everything all the time, and they never seem
to snap back. They never seem to have any radical change.
There aren't any protests on the street about it. Just
kind of suck it up and keep going.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Now, what is going on with the disabled people suddenly
finding that they can walk.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
At Oasis gigs? This is truly a miracle, the miracle
of Manchester. Lime and Noel Gallaher of Oasis fame. They
are back together, two brothers of Irish descent who famously
don't like each other. I heard on the Grave Fine
last week. They're staying in different hotels so that minimizes
the chances of a fallout on this massive world tour.
(02:06):
Would you believe it? Story in the papers here this
morning pictures of row after row of people in the
disabled seating area at Heaton Park at the weekend in Manchester.
And when Lim and Noel and the other Oasis band
members came on stage, hallelujah, all these people stood up
and walked and danced and clapped. So you've got able
(02:28):
bodied people who've tried to gain the system to get
an Oasis ticket, who have fraudulently basically gone online and
bought wheelchair tickets. They should be ashamed of themselves totally.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Now have you looked at whether you're going to be
staying with these water bills into the tune of hammatch?
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Yes we will. So they've already gone up in the
last five years by thirty eight percent. And I live
in an area which is supplied with water by a
company called Thames Water and they are one of the
worst defenders for pollution. And what we're being told now
big review of water in the UK. They're getting rid
of the regulator. They're going to have a new tougher
(03:06):
regulator and our water bills will be climbing year on
year for the next decade to actually clean up the mess.
And if I was the Prime Minister, I would be
taking bonuses back off all these fat cat chief executives
of water companies. They have paid themselves every year in
bonuses millions of millions of dollars. And Heather, if you
(03:26):
came to visit me in Oxfordshire and you suggest that
we go for a swim in the River Thames, I
couldn't in good faith allow you to set foot in
the water in the River Thames because you would end
up in hospital with cryptosporidium. That is how bad the
water is in our area. It is disgusting.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
Okay, well, thanks thanks for the warning and I appreciate that.
Into Brady UK corresponding.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
For more from Hither Duplessy Alan Drive, listen live to
news Talks it'd be from four pm weekdays, or follow
the podcast on iHeartRadio.
In the Brady UK correspondence with us Hello.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Inda, Hey Heather, how are you?
Speaker 1 (00:04):
I am well, thank you. So what do you make
of the UK reviewing the pension age.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Well, they do this every six years and I think
a lot of people will be watching this and just
thinking can they push it back any further? So we
now at the moment in the UK you get the
state pension at the age of sixty six that you've
paid into all your working life. In twenty twenty eight,
it's already set in stone. It's moving to sixty seven
(00:28):
for a man, so you have to be sixty seven
in twenty twenty eight, and they already have a plan
to push it back to sixty eight by the year
twenty forty six. Now all eyes have been focused on
this recently because Denmark have just pushed the pension age
back to seventy Believe it or not, Denmark are really
kind of leading the way in Europe. Basically government's wanting
(00:51):
you to work forever and it's I mean, when you
look at what the French do and what the Greeks do,
you'd be very kind of angry if you were a
war man or woman in Denmark having to go all
the way to seventy. So what the UK is doing,
they're just kind of trying to focus people's minds. One
statistic just to give you on this, three million self
employed people in the UK are not saving into a pension.
(01:14):
I don't know what they think they're going to live
on when they eventually retire.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
Yeah, is this going to be like, are you people
going to get upset about it? Or actually have you
got so used to this thing being pushed out you're
sort of take it in your stride.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
I think people in the UK take it in their stride.
It's the same people as far as I can see,
paying for everything all the time, and they never seem
to snap back. They never seem to have any radical change.
There aren't any protests on the street about it. Just
kind of suck it up and keep going.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Now, what is going on with the disabled people suddenly
finding that they can walk.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
At Oasis gigs? This is truly a miracle, the miracle
of Manchester. Lime and Noel Gallaher of Oasis fame. They
are back together, two brothers of Irish descent who famously
don't like each other. I heard on the Grave Fine
last week. They're staying in different hotels so that minimizes
the chances of a fallout on this massive world tour.
(02:06):
Would you believe it? Story in the papers here this
morning pictures of row after row of people in the
disabled seating area at Heaton Park at the weekend in Manchester.
And when Lim and Noel and the other Oasis band
members came on stage, hallelujah, all these people stood up
and walked and danced and clapped. So you've got able
(02:28):
bodied people who've tried to gain the system to get
an Oasis ticket, who have fraudulently basically gone online and
bought wheelchair tickets. They should be ashamed of themselves totally.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Now have you looked at whether you're going to be
staying with these water bills into the tune of hammatch?
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Yes we will. So they've already gone up in the
last five years by thirty eight percent. And I live
in an area which is supplied with water by a
company called Thames Water and they are one of the
worst defenders for pollution. And what we're being told now
big review of water in the UK. They're getting rid
of the regulator. They're going to have a new tougher
(03:06):
regulator and our water bills will be climbing year on
year for the next decade to actually clean up the mess.
And if I was the Prime Minister, I would be
taking bonuses back off all these fat cat chief executives
of water companies. They have paid themselves every year in
bonuses millions of millions of dollars. And Heather, if you
(03:26):
came to visit me in Oxfordshire and you suggest that
we go for a swim in the River Thames, I
couldn't in good faith allow you to set foot in
the water in the River Thames because you would end
up in hospital with cryptosporidium. That is how bad the
water is in our area. It is disgusting.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
Okay, well, thanks thanks for the warning and I appreciate that.
Into Brady UK corresponding.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
For more from Hither Duplessy Alan Drive, listen live to
news Talks it'd be from four pm weekdays, or follow
the podcast on iHeartRadio.
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