More on Pensions

Even lord Hutton, a Labour peer, has concluded that public worker pensions have to change in his enquiry.

Unions, who have no consideration for the country and who are completely and utterly selfish in their ambitions, are saying that “their members will have to work longer and pay more, but get less”

Welcome to the real world. This is the case for ALL of us. Why should the public sector be any different to the private one?

There are many people out there who simply do not have pensions, let at alone final salary ones. In fact, low-paid private workers are less likely to have pension than their public equivalent.

The old argument that public sector workers earn less than their private sector colleagues is no longer true. I know this from personal experience.

I used to be a Civil Servant, working in IT support. The Agency I worked for outsourced their support to IBM. In the 6 years that I was with IBM I did not get a single pay rise, indeed, I lost income as I a) had to pay more for my pension and b) my shift allowance was manoeuvred away. Civil Servants, at the same time, have had regular pay rises, most slightly above inflation.

Yes, it is sad that workers have to work harder and longer for less to pay for the economic madness of 13 years of Labour but ALL of us have to contribute, that include Public Workers, Civil Servants, Private Sector workers and, yes, even the bankers.