“Older people should lose their pensions if they refuse to do community work to stop them being a “negative burden on society”, a former senior Whitehall official has suggested.” via http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/9630862/Elderly-should-do-community-work-or-lose-pension-peer-says.html.

If you are not in the harness of the state, then we do not need you.  In UK, state does not serve you, you serve state.  Creepy and totalitarian (via althouse.blogspot.com).