Pillock of the Week. Michael George Bichard, Baron Bichard, KGB, This week it goes to the hugely smug Lord Bichard, who is a former benefits chief and sits on a quango looking at demographic changes and their impact on public services. http://www.localleadership.gov.uk/totalplace/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/Sir-Michael-Bichard-251x300.jpgHe has said that retired people should do community work or face losing part of their pension so as not to be a burden on the state. Firstly, the moron should know that pensioners have paid in for their pensions in good faith, having been told that National Insurance would give them a good pension. People have contributed for their pensions and it is their pension. It is not for the government to use as a carrot or a stick. During good times, the government should have built up a pension reserve rather than used pension funds for funding vanity projects like the millennium dome so that state pensions were not the giant Ponzi scheme they are now. Lord Bichard also needs reminding that community service is a judicial sanction judges can give criminals. Is being a pensioner therefore, going to be a criminal act in his brave new world? His lordship is setting a perfect example At the ripe old age of 54 he retired from the Civil Service in May 2001 with a pension of £120,000 p.a.! (Index Linked) Lord Bichard - well deserving Pillock of the Week!