yes thomas. pensioners are vulnerable and gordon brown severed the earning related link years ago. he is trying to prevaricate in the worst politcal way at the moment to avoid restoring it properly whilst seeming to be sympathetic. A labour government should live by the policy of from each according to his means, to each according to his needs. they do not.
just check out mps' and cabinet ministers' pension levels, by the way for sheer hypocrisy.