From the front page of Mumsnet ....

Oh, not another thread about this....

Yes Ana because GNHQ needs to get on the case and correct the errors that they are putting in the public domain - instead of letting Janet Street-Porter take the rap!

......and we are still awaiting to hear who commissioned this survey!

But there are other threads about this very subject! And Cari has responded to some GN's questions on one of those. Why start yet another thread?

How many threads is the least of our worries.

I think we have been misrepresented and I don't like it.

Agree with you petallus

Sorry, but I don't see why you can't add your comments/complaints onto one of the previous threads...

I would like to point out that there is no evidence that means testing universal pensioner benefits would save money - a Freedom of Information request this year as to how much would get saved got the answer 'this information is not available ' because it hasn't been worked out because the current Government does not intend to means test benefits!! I was contacted by Radio Bristol to ask what Bristol Older People's Forum members felt about the Grans-net results, and I have to say I was astonished, and wondered who the members actually are. We have just done a survey of our members and got nearly 900 results, and believe me Bristolian pensioners who responded didn't want means testing. Mind you most had individual incomes under £10,000 so that may be why the results are different..........

The expression 'means testing' is usually taken to means looking whether the poor have too much income to benefit from payments but I think in this case it's the other way around. What the survey revealed was that a large number of us think the rich shouldn't get benefits. So the means test should only be for those with a regular income of more than say £55,000. Most of us wouldn't be involved.

Given how this misrepresentation of the results of the Gransnet survey has spread widely, it is surely not unreasonable to have a number of threads looking at different aspects of the subject. Those who don't want to read or contribute can, as always, ignore them.