AH-HA, now I see what the Government is up to (“Critics say state pension pay rise will hit Scots worst”, The Herald, July 20). We have always known that old people are just a nuisance and as we become ill we have to be looked after. If the NHS and care homes have reduced services then we won’t survive all that much longer and if they delay giving pensions to the current 40-somethings for a few more years then the chances of them surviving as long as us is even more remote. They won’t have to pay out on pensions after all -what a very clever idea.

Why did no one think of this before?

Margaret Cameron,

222 Newbattle Abbey Crescent, Dalkeith.