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I understand what you and your husband went through Bern, and it's very very tough indeed. The problem is not, oddly enough, one of Government, but more HR professionals setting ridiculous qualification criteria for almost every job, and as a result, unqualified, under-qualified, middle aged and senior folks are almost immediately excluded from the hiring process.
The only motivation I can find for doing this is to protect company pension schems from short term contributors who might become long term beneficiaries. My counter-argument to that is, young people are much more likley to move on and, if they contribute to a scheme, it will likely be decades before they call on it. Any well run pension scheme ought to be able to plan ahead for such things.
Tony Blur suggesting we might work until we are 70 demonstrates a clear lack of understanding of how the UK job market actually works. Come the revolution, we should round up all HR people and send them to Tristan da Cunha.