I'll wear a Brown tie to work when I'm 65.

George Osborne's announcement that the age of retirement will rise to sixty six gave me an idea. On my sixty fifth birthday, if I'm working in an office by then, I'll go to work in a brown tie - and I'll wear it for that final year. That way I will never forget what Gordon Brown and Labour did to this country. If anyone asks, I'll tell them "I'm doing my Brown year".

I will work an extra year as a patriotic duty. (Pension 66)

George Osborne is to announce that the retirement age for men will rise to sixty six. Am I happy about having to work an extra year? Most definitely not - but I do understand the reasons behind having to. George has been forced into this situation by Gordon Brown's massive pile of debt. The debt has to be paid off, or we will never recover from Labour's disastrous and incompetent spending frenzy.

On my sixty fifth birthday I will wake up and thank Gordon Brown, not George Osborne, for stealing away a year of my retirement. But I will go to work willingly in the knowledge that I will be doing so for patriotic reasons. If by working an extra year I can help the country get back on it's feet - then so be it. If by working an extra year I can improve the future for my children and grandchildren - then so be it.

I served in the Navy for sixteen years, and I will see this extra year as one more for the country. But I will NOT forget Gordon Brown.

Gordon Brown's pension u-turn damages the future of 8m Mothers.

In an act of sneaky cowardice Gordon Brown has shattered the retirement dreams of eight million women. Women with a partial pension entitlement were to be given the chance to make up the shortfall in their National Insurance contributions by making lump sum payments. The government have now dropped the proposed scheme in their usual underhanded manner. The u-turn was slipped out in the Lords as Parliament adjourned for the holiday break. Peers who voted earlier this year in favour of the Pensions Bill Amendment, were said to have gasped in dismay when the news was announced.

Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary Chris Grayling said:

"This is a massive u-turn. In the summer pensions ministers Mike O'Brien was very ready to make all the right noises for the women concerned but when it comes to a decision not to do something, it is slipped out at the end of the parliamentary session when nobody has noticed. This is a betrayal of stay at home mums."

Age Concern spokesman Michelle Mitchell said:

"This is a slap in the face for thousands of women in or approaching retirement who are being penalised for taking time out of work to care." And that this would: "Condemn many more women to poverty."

The Lords however have promised to push through the scheme anyway, even if it means doing it in the face of government opposition. Lord Oakeshott, the Lib Dem pension spokesman, said:

"When the u-turn was announced you could see a wave of revulsion sweep around the House. "Gordon Brown should be ashamed of himself for sneaking this out just before Christmas. "He must have a heart of stone to do this to millions of women and carers who had had their hopes raised by the government that they could buy back missing years which stopped them qualifying for a full pension."

So as Gordon makes one announcement to repay the pensions (up to 90% of their value) that he ruined through his own incompetence, he sneakily dumps an amendment that could have made life a whole lot more secure for millions of women. It's not just the dumping of the scheme that infuriates me, it's the despicable way that it was announced.

Trust? shame? honesty? - Gordon and his cronies do not know the meaning of those words.