Webchat with Mhairi Black MP, Tuesday 12 January 11am-12pm

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We’re pleased to announce that the SNP’s Mhairi Black MP will be joining us at MNHQ on Tuesday 12th January between 11am and 12 midday. She’d particularly like to talk about the ‘Women Against State Pension Inequality’ campaign - see below for more details on that.

Mhairi Black is SNP MP for Paisley and Renfrewshire South and is the current ‘Baby of the House’ - the youngest member of the House of Commons. After joining the SNP in 2011 Mhairi was elected at the age of 20 in the 2015 General Election, whilst completing her undergraduate degree in Politics and Public Policy at the University of Glasgow. Her maiden speech made headlines, partly for the rule-breaking applause which followed it.

In support of the Women Against State Pension Inequality campaign, Mhairi secured a debate in the House of Commons on state pension age increases that some say discriminate against women born on or after 6th April 1951, calling the situation “grossly unfair”. The campaign is calling for the reversal of the decision to delay the retirement age for women born in 1953-1954 - you can read more about this here.

Please do join us on the day or leave a question here in advance - and as ever, please remember our Webchat Guidelines: one question per poster, and please do be polite.

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This campaign is not saying pension age should not go up.

It is specific.The notice for the particular group was tiny. It is about one age range being given not enough time to make alternative arrangements.

And they happen to be women.

Just catching up with this, disappointed but not surprised to note Mairi did not choose to use the opportunity to distance herself from her previous sectarian comments, as she has to the very best of my knowledge and my google abilities at no point previously done so either.

I was a bit disappointed to see the 'Scotland puts more in than it gets out' myth - most have abandoned that argument as it is so easily argued and economy is, by a far margin, the least attractive and persuasive argument for independence.