Betrayed will betray  

Total number of British soldiers killed in Afghanistan = 332 What a pathetic defence. Under friendly fire in Bristol, Clegg defended the Liberal Democrats' record in government, claiming the party was pushing for fairer policies, for example, the restoration of the earnings link for state pensions from next April. It was said that he faced betrayal. He did not mention that the coalition's pension trick is the betrayed's betrayal.  The changeover from using the Retail Price Index (RPI) to Consumer Price Index (CPI) as a measure of price inflation for regulating occupational pension schemes, is a confidence trick. Those who have contributed in good faith towards their retirement will be short-changed. Yet the media is silent.  Pensioner inflation is recognised as being higher than RPI. But RPI is at least higher than CPI. The change will his pensioners twice.  KPMG has...