yes! Mr. Darling has done nothing for pensioners! I went through most of my working life as a single parent family, I claimed no benefit for this situation as in order to do so I had to take time off from the job that I had. This was the way to lose the job! Out of the miserable money that I earned I saved for my pension in a 'self employed pension scheme', which should have paid off my mortgage. This enabled me to move my job without losing my pension. The lump sum was supposed to pay off my mortgage, but nobody planned for 9/11. The bottom dropped out of the market so that I am left with a mortgage which I will never be able to pay off (interest only), and a small income which is not index linked ( at the time I could not afford an indexed one) which dear Mr darling taxes at a high rate. I tried to work, after taking my pension, and dear Mr Brown gave me a K tax code and taxed me at 50%!!! The type of job I could get after retiring could not pay enough to justify 50%! Now where is the justice? When I planned for my retirement all dental care was free and NHS, I now have to pay at a time of life when my teeth are falling apart! During my working life I moved to a remote part of Wales so that I could afford to live and buy a house. Now that house has been rebanded twice, upwards of course, I have an estate car to carry straw and bulk feed for my poultry, no public transport here. I have to put my rubbish in my car to take it to the collection point. I am now 70 years of age, and I am really getting very p------ off with the Darlings of this world!