THOUSANDS of pensioners will descend on Westminster on Wednesday to demand a better deal from the Government.

Pensioners from all over the country will be at Parliament for the National Lobby for Pensioners’ Rights, organised by the National Pensioners’ Convention.

Some will be dressed in bandages and dark glasses like the Invisible Man to illustrate their claim that pensioners are being overlooked by the Government.

Members of the Huddersfield and District Pensioners Organisation usually travel to the National Lobby, but will not be attending this year.

Chairman Noreen Logan said the long trip would leave members too tired to go to meetings in the following days.

She added: “Last year was a long and arduous journey for our group. Some of us did not arrive home until 3am the following morning.

“Many of us had meetings the following day and some people were too tired to attend. As we have meetings this week we reluctantly decided not to attend.”

But she said the group was giving the lobby its full support.

She said: “We approve of the Invisible Man protest as we believe that pensioners have become invisible to all political parties and almost all MPs. We hope all MPs will listen to the thousands of pensioners at the lobby.”

The pensioners at the lobby will be asking their MPs to sign an Early Day Motion in support of the Pensioners’ Charter, which sets out basic rights for older people.

The charter includes raising the basic state pension for men and women from £87.30 to at least £130 a week, bringing pensions into line with earnings by 2008 instead of 2011, introducing free social and long-term care, outlawing age discrimination for goods, services and benefits, providing free nationwide travel and providing a substantial fuel allowance.