Poor, poor strikers go shopping

[DodgyAgent]

No, i'm suggsting that government looks at actual reform rather than continued failure covered up by pot shots at easy targets. You aren't going to solve the problems of mismanagement and waste in the public sector simply by cutting pensions. If anything you will simply drive out the good and encourage the bad.

Ah so now you have switched the argument with the defence being that cutting public sector pensions is going to actually cost more than it saves!!

[doodab]

Ah so now you have switched the argument with the defence being that cutting public sector pensions is going to actually cost more than it saves!!

See my earlier point that cutting pension payments reduces investment in uk plc as well

[doodab]

Plus of course by ensuring these people of a generous pension you increase future income tax revenue and ensure there is money being spent to prop the economy up. It's all good

[DodgyAgent]

Plus of course by ensuring these people of a generous pension you increase future income tax revenue and ensure there is money being spent to prop the economy up. It's all good

So let me get this right. We trot off to the markets and borrow money. We use that money to create jobs for people who then spend it which creates and sustains business? is that how it is?

[The Spartan]

Plus of course by ensuring these people of a generous pension you increase future income tax revenue and ensure there is money being spent to prop the economy up. It's all good

Yeah we'll just work and they can relax and enjoy their retirement

[shaunbhoy]

Yeah we'll just work and they can relax and enjoy their retirement

Perhaps some of these Public Sector workers might consider working on after the 30-year point at which so many of them seem to imagine they can just put their feet up and let the rest of us take the strain?

[Freamon]

I recall Jeremy Clarkson slamming the banks. Not sure you would describe Jeremy Clarkson as rightwing. I haven't heard a political opinion from him.

Clarkson is an unsecured creditor of the bankrupt insurance firm AIG. IIRC he lost most of his savings when they defaulted in 2008.

[Taita]

Public sector workers use pensions strike to go Christmas shopping - Telegraph

Don't we all feel sorry for them?

Good for them! It is very good of them to go shopping thereby contributing to the economy. If Mervyn King has his way the Bankers won't be doing their usual share of shopping next year!

[RobertRice]

Good for them! It is very good of them to go shopping thereby contributing to the economy. If Mervyn King has his way the Bankers won't be doing their usual share of shopping next year!

A proper strike should involve some kind of protest to stir up public feeling and make the government think. Instead the strikers have gone shopping making the strike totally lack any credibility.

[Freamon]

A proper strike should involve some kind of protest to stir up public feeling and make the government think. Instead the strikers have gone shopping making the strike totally lack any credibility.

The main thing lacking in credibility is the Telegraph. Oh and your sincerity.