Past and present governments have been ripping the Miners pension off to the tune of 6 Billion quid up to now 'they put a 50/50 split of any surpluses/ profits to guarantee our pension wouldn't fall ' they have never had to pay anything in to our pension to back it up since they set this up back in 1994 and with all the pits now shut and ex miners Dying around a 1000 a year it won't be long before they take the lot, and by the way both Labour and Conservative governments have taken this while in power.
They all banged on about Maxwell ripping his company pension scheme off ' at least Dick