UK councils unable to pay staff wages

[sappatz]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/f...-collapse.html

failed state

[AlfredJPruffock]

Good from the inflation perspective though.

[DiscoStu]

Good from the inflation perspective though.

Plus a significant proportion of them aren't worth paying anyway.

[Bob Dalek]

Plus a significant proportion of them aren't worth paying anyway.

I thought this was now a dead duck of a story, as HM Gov. have said they'll bail 'em out, having seized £4 billion of Iceland's assets, etc.?

[ThomasSoerensen]

haha - socialists (council workers) are not happy to be capitalists when there is a downside - haha

I am quite sure thoug that they are happy to accept the interest payments that they received from the bank.

hypocrites

[Bob Dalek]

haha - socialists (council workers) are not happy to be capitalists when there is a downside - haha

Socialists? You appear to be living in Liverpool in 1983. Tory pension-watchers is what they are these days.

[stingman123]

I thought most of thast was their pension fund - wishful thinking I suppose, back to the grind............

[Cyberman]

Let's hope they have to make staffing cuts.