[jogi730]

Tony, 100% agree with you.
During recent pensions arguements with the government, a parliamentary debate in December 2014, Penny Mordaunt, the then Tory Fire Minister, gave a guarantee to MPs that a firefighter, over the age of 55, who fails a fitness test through no fault of their own, would receive a redeployed role or a full, unreduced pension.
This guarantee was repeated several times during the debate and subsequently by the secretary of state Eric Pickles in front of the DCLG committee in the House of Commons.
Significantly, it was on the basis of these assurances that the government won the vote in the Commons which introduced the new pension scheme.
So the FBU wrote to all fire authorities to confirm that they would implement this guarantee at local level. It soon became very clear that this wasn't the case.
Fire authorities confirmed they could not and would not guarantee a redeployed role or a full, unreduced pension in the circumstances set out and that any such decision was entirely at their discretion.
This was then confirmed by the full national employers.
Even more alarmingly we found out that the government had been informed that this would be the position by the London Fire Brigade prior to the debate in Parliament.
Parliament was misled. The 'guarantee' was used to quell opposition to the plans and to ensure the legislation passed through Parliament.
When this was raised with the appropriate bodies, it was not long before the 'nothing can be done about it' message came out. Apparently there is an ancient law which allows MP's to deliberately mislead Parliament.
It was clearly done here and over Iraq. And this makes one think how many more times have they lied.
So I'm definitely signing it.

EDIT: Spreading the word