At the eighth of the Orwell Prize's events at the Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival 2009, Iain Dale (blogger), Peter Hitchens (Mail on Sunday) and Ed Vaizey MP (Shadow Arts Minister) answer the question, What is the Big Conservative Idea?. Chaired by Ben Wright (BBC Political Correspondent). In this part, the panel enter into discussion.
What I want from the next government is a decent old age pension relinked to national average wages, and im not a pensioner.
Because I despise the way our elderly have been treated since the 80's when M Thatcher and cut the link with earnings.
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