Brexit and the waning days of the United Kingdom

[Sheilbh]

So pension age was important to them, but not important enough to pay any attention at all to related information? In Sweden a change like that would have been heavily reported in media when it happened, was it not so in the UK?

Yeah it was heavily covered in the news. Raising the pension age for women from 60 to 65 (and then 68 - basically equalising to the male pension age and then increasing it in line with men) was a big thing. Which was why it was passed in 1995, to take effect 15 years in the future (so people who were genuinely close to retiring weren't suddenly another year out) and then increasing gradually over a decade (again for fairness).

I have very little sympathy with the campaign.

Edit: But I think Labour in opposition should have spotted that they might form the next government and this is an expensive pledge that they won't want to do. Instead they just did the easy opposition politics piece and now there's loads of clips and photos of them promising one thing less than 5 years ago and now doing the opposite