Budget 2010: Builder confronts Alistair Darling over taxation on pensions

1015AM GMT twenty-four March 2010

Flanked by Gordon Brown during an investigation of swell at the �5.5 billion Thameslink growth at Blackfriars Bridge in executive London, Mr Darling was told he should be slicing taxes for pensioners.

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As the Chancellor and Prime Minister met workmen in the site canteen, Derek Dyason, 64, from Chatham, Kent, pronounced ""I goal you have got your Budget sorted. You"ll majority probably get slated.""

He complained ""What I cannot assimilate is that you work all your hold up but when you retire you compensate taxation on your pensions.

""It"s not fair.""

Mr Dyason told the dual ministers he would be timid prior to the Blackfriars hire execution date in early 2012.

As the short review over the Budget ended, Mr Darling told Mr Dyason "We will see what we can do."

Mr Dyason, an electrician and builder, pronounced thereafter he had longed for to "stand up for pensioners".

He combined "I only thought it was a singular event to contend my bit.

"You work tough your total hold up and afterwards you have to compensate some-more taxes when you"re struggling to get by. It is not satisfactory at all."