“DUP will use veto to block abortion rights in Northern Ireland”

May 29, 2018 | Ireland

An independent (financial adviser’s) view

Last week’s referendum was the first time I could exercise my right to vote as a newly-adopted Irish citizen. It’s result means that the Irish Question will continue to dog the current government, just as it has many of its predecessors, and could yet be its downfall.

It would be crazy for women from the North to have to travel to the South to exercise their human right to abortion, just it would be to try to set up a ‘hard border’ following a ‘hard Brexit’. The DUP, on whom T. May relies to stay in power, refuse to compromise on either. Could see J Corbyn  in No.10 by the end of the year after all. Worth an each-way at Paddy Powers, I’d say.

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“Record year for annuity sales driven by advisers”

“Record year for annuity sales driven by advisers”

I was asked this week whether annuities are now ‘a good investment’. They’ve been recommended very rarely in recent years, since ‘pension freedoms’ allowed pretty much unlimited drawdown on pension funds and anything left to be passed on to beneficiaries free of Inheritance Tax.