Strikers are stealing from their own children

[TheFaQQer]

They voted for their representatives who then formed a government. If they wanted something else, they should have voted for other representatives. They could have had Gordon again.

The electorate voted for a given politician on the basis of the policies advocated in their manifesto. For example, some voted Lib Dem because there was a solemn promise that they would vote against any plans to increase tuition fees for students.

In the end, since no-one won the election, the coalition agreement was forged, making a set of policies that no-one actually voted for. No-one voted for the set of policies which this government is implementing - not even the members of the government themselves.

[TheFaQQer]

The average public sector pensioner gets a pension of £5,600 (median). In the half of people below that median, for example the average pension of a woman who worked for local authority is £2,600 pa

Average public sector pension is £5600.

If Danny Alexander MP (age 39) gets voted out at the next election and never works again, his MPs pension (first elected 2005) will be £23k

[TinTrump]

Surely any 'subsidy to the private sector' is provided from money raised in taxes or NI contributions from income generated by the private sector, and is therefore nothing other than what the Dutch would call a 'cigar out of your own box'.

Well put. This is what friends of mine in the public sector fail to recognise.

[BlasterBates]

The average figure of £5000 for public pensions is a ridiculous figure, it includes everyone including anyone working for a few months or part time. No point negotiating with a Union that makes nonsenical statements.

The fact is you will find no-one who has worked 40 years fulltime in the public sector with a pension of £5000.

I worked 2 years for the first co I got and I estimate to get no more than £100 pension per year for my service. The figure of £5000 including everyone however little they contributed just demonstrates how high a full pension must be.

Just gives an idea of how divorced from reality Union leaders are.

Good article here:

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/ja...ey-used-to-be/

I like this

At Birmingham Women's Hospital, theatre nurse and Unison president, Eleanor Smith has offered a classic self-defeating defence of her strike action. "I came into the public sector not for great wages…" she said. Now what would you expect to follow that opening: "…but to serve the community", or "…to provide care that is free at the point of use"?

No, what Ms Smith said was that she did not enter the public sector for great wages "…but for a pension." And

My sister is a theatre nurse so I know what pension they can get, and believe me it's generous.