The following quote about state pensions remaining sustainable is a joke. They're not really sustainable now, so hardly a question of remaining sustainable.



At some point the government needs to start switching to a system where your NI contributions go towards your pension in the future. At the moment current workers pay for current retirees. That wasn't a problem when the massive generation of baby boomers were paying for their parents generation who had been significantly reduced in number after world wars. It doesn't work properly now though and isn't sustainable when a smaller generation is now paying for the larger generation of baby boomers.

Throw in the other ways governments increasingly p*ss away money, an increasing culture of entitlement and claiming "benefits" (including people who don't want to work as they can have money for nothing instead), people living longer and it's already passed being sustainable.