Jim Singer launched the highly popular e-petition urging the government to reverse its switch to CPI for pension and benefits indexation. It attracted 110,000 supporters and triggered a parliamentary debate, which he watched at the House of Commons. He talks to Jack Jones.
“The Chancellor’s emergency budget in 2010 was a bombshell,” says Jim Singer. “I follow economics, so was well aware that the change to CPI-linking was going to have quite an impact on my retiremen...
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