Recent content by stillp

I had thought the same of you. It seems we were both wrong.

Indeed.

As sparkwright said, If there's any damage to the copper you need to replace that section.

Heat shrink is far better than tape.

There's a fund. Money goes in, and money goes out. The size of the fund, together with investment income, employer's contributions, and members' contributions, has to be sufficient to meet the projected liabilities of the scheme. Inflation means that at any given time the current level of...

Nonsense.

What are you calling my proposal? Your insistence that because I didn't mention the existence of a pension fund I 'must' be postulating that there isn't one?

At last, you've said something that's correct! They will receive their pensions from the pension fund, where else?

I HAVE NOT SUGGESTED THAT!

Equitable Life for example? Supposed to be impossible these days.

Have you now forgotten about the fund?

It does, but not in the way you want - it confirms that you cannot change the speed of that motor.

So you hope I agree that the opposite of something I said is something I didn't say?:p

No, I don't accept that an employer should have no involvement. Pension boards usually IME include representation from the employer as well as the employees.

Yes, of course - that's why manufacturers join them. Possibly, but we don't hear a lot of statistics to show that the existing percentage is inadequate do we? Seemed like that to me, although I was surprised, given your views expressed in other threads.