brokenflipflop
Veteran
- Location
- Worsley
I know I can barley spell bearley but I do know it's barely. Honest
What are you up to tomorrow then?
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brokenflipflop
Veteran
- Location
- Worsley
From 2005 (before the recession)
Two in every five jobs created since Labour came to power have been in the public sector, swelling the size of the civil service workforce by almost 600,000, according to analysis published yesterday.
Two in every five jobs created since Labour came to power have been in the public sector, swelling the size of the civil service workforce by almost 600,000, according to analysis published yesterday.
PBancroft
Senior Member
- Location
- Winchester
I was a "scab" - I work in the public sector, and I am a member of the union. Not that many people in my team were on strike, but we still had to pick up their work for them - life goes on, and in my line of work people still have problems which need fixing, whether theres a strike on or not.
The procession through town was impressive, and they do have my backing. I don't see the strikers as "selfish" or "arrogant" as some people have suggested (not necessarily on here). They're trying to retain something which was a major part of the benefits of their employment.
The public sector isn't perfect - it really isn't. However there are some very very good people who do very difficult jobs for less money than if they took a job in the private sector. They (we) have faced job cuts like everyone else, pay freezes like some, extra pressures like many and now being asked to work for years longer and get less in return in pensions.
There is going to be a breaking point. I don't think this strike is it - but if the Conservatives continue down this road (and I do blame the Conservatives) eventually the good people will walk away.
The procession through town was impressive, and they do have my backing. I don't see the strikers as "selfish" or "arrogant" as some people have suggested (not necessarily on here). They're trying to retain something which was a major part of the benefits of their employment.
The public sector isn't perfect - it really isn't. However there are some very very good people who do very difficult jobs for less money than if they took a job in the private sector. They (we) have faced job cuts like everyone else, pay freezes like some, extra pressures like many and now being asked to work for years longer and get less in return in pensions.
There is going to be a breaking point. I don't think this strike is it - but if the Conservatives continue down this road (and I do blame the Conservatives) eventually the good people will walk away.
Mozzy
New Member
- Location
- Taunton Somerset
So tomorrow weather forecast is good but colder. I'm planning on a 40 mile ride and see if I can do it in three hours. Downside is, I shall probably stop somewhere for 20 minutes shopping therapy. I can feel a treat coming on; but not sure what. Buddy coming round later in the day for me to do some wiring on one of his Bonsai.
Other than that, I shall see what happens
Other than that, I shall see what happens
brokenflipflop
Veteran
- Location
- Worsley
I agree with everything you've said except the bit about the tories. I'm quite thrifty and look after my modest earnings. The Labour Government was in power for 13 years. At the end of their reign Britain has been left with it's worst debt ever. It can't carry on, we're bankrupt. These debts have to be paid. Blaming the Tories for starting to pay our deficit off and get our house in order and sort out the mess Labour got us into is very short sighted. The unemployed can't pay it off. The few hundred tax evaders and rich knobs and bankers bonus's are just a drop in the ocean and a convenient punchbag for us all although they are peanuts. The millions of working class people in the middle, when you work out the numbers, are inevitably the people who will have to suffer. I put the blame squarely on the shoulders of Labour who didn't fix the roof when the sun was shining. And I'm not a Tory either but blame where blame is due and hats off to the administration who have to do the right thing. God help us if those plonkers Balls and Milliband get in !
martint235
Dog on a bike
- Location
- Welling
I blamed successive Govts for it but I do think that if private sector pensions were better there would be a lot less animosity towards public sector pensions and the fault for that lays firmly with the Tories for "Ok here's the deal, you can continue to pay into your state run pension fund and it'll be ok. Or you can opt out, take the money you pay and pay it into somewhere else but we're not going to check you're doing that so you could just spend it instead and hope for the best". By saying this, I'm not blaming the people that did, I would probably have done the same, I'm blaming the people that allowed it to happen.
JtB
Prepare a way for the Lord
- Location
- North Hampshire
Tomorrow the weather forecast is good here too (Sunny, 6C), so its a 12 mile lunchtime ride for me. 
Headgardener
Armchair Cyclist
Tomorrow I am going up to London to the CC London contingent's Christmas party
and hope to meet and put names and faces to usernames. Plus a bit of this as well 
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and hope to meet and put names and faces to usernames. Plus a bit of this as well .
Tomorrow I am going up to London to the CC London contingent's Christmas party
See you there...
vernon
Harder than Ronnie Pickering
- Location
- Meanwood, Leeds
Tomorrow i am off to Butlins for the weekend. There's a folk festival taking place at the Skegness site.
