The proposed sum falls well short of the £76m a year for 30 years that Ros Altmann, a specialist on pensions, reckons it would take to compensate all of the aggrieved members of wound-up schemes.The government is not, it insists, providing "compensation", which would imply full recompense for a harm it had caused.
This is plainly nothing more than abuse of a metaphor; were the sentence full recompense, we would allow the transaction to be ordered the other way around, and grant anyone choosing voluntarily to be imprisoned the right to commit a suitable crime upon release.
In a lengthy submission to the review of allowances last year, he insisted he was "subsidising" his work, and urged the house authorities to provide "full recompense".
However, the recompense of sitting among the trees eating a full English breakfast more than makes up for it.
Ideally, Brazil would break this link: guaranteeing pensioners at least the minimum deemed a decent recompense for full-time work makes no sense at all.
I had saved a human being from destruction, and, as a recompense, I now writhed under the miserable pain of a wound, which shattered the flesh and bone.
As a small recompense, two posts today.
There is also a threat: recompense may be demanded if we receive "undeserved touch".
Such rewards might be taken as a retrospective recompense for past suffering, want and exploitation.
Now, it appears, his challenger for the Elysée is doing the same – and hoping for a similar recompense.
