Clegg thinks pensioners should give up benefits

I can't believe that Nick Clegg cites Alan Sugar as a pensioner who doesn't need a bus pass. I'm sure Lord Sugar realises this himself and would never apply for one.
The scheme is, I'm sure 'self-regulating' with wealthy pensioners opting out of their own accord.
The cost of 'means-testing' pensioners would negate savings made by withdrawing this 'perk'.
The grey pound seems, at the moment, to be going a long way towards propping up the economy.
To use the OG and I as examples:
We use our bus passes to visit the cinema, galleries, shops and restaurants in a nearby city. Each time we use the bus it is full of O.A.P.s doing much the same.
This city is where Don Foster is M.P. He also queries the bus-pass perk.

Round here all bus passes run out early next year and no-one knows what is going to happen then. Well, I suppose 'they' know but they haven't told us!

Pensioners are an easy target and such attacks chime with a mood of inter-generational warfare promoted by some politicians and some branches of the media. Anyone would think that we arrived on this planet as demanding pensioners rather than contributed thirty, forty, fifty years of work and taxes first.

Such attacks are incredibly lazy. The free television licence doesn't clock in until the age of 75, I think, but he makes it sound as if all pensioners automatically get it. Talking abut Lord Sugar's bus pass is just naughty. You have to apply for a bus pass; it isn't just issued automatically so of course he doesn't have one. However, I suppose he does automatically get the winter fuel allowance.

With one breath Lib Dems are saying that means testing is too costly and inefficient and with the nest are suggesting that "rich" pensioners shouldn't get these perks or that they should be taxed.