Comments on: CBI chief slams £1trillion public sector pensions deficit

By: Harold

Harold — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 21:30:34 +0000

lol great entertainment! we need cheering up!

By: True Blackpudlian

True Blackpudlian — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 20:45:55 +0000

It is absolutely scandalous how much that jobsworth gets paid. We certainly don’t get value for money. This is the whole problem though Labour has created all these pointless costly quangos and the non-jobs to go with them.

By: geezer466

geezer466 — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 20:25:43 +0000

You misunderstood my question mate..

The £285 how much is JSA, child benefit, other stuff exactly?

By: Michael Stockley

Michael Stockley — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 20:16:02 +0000

Got Me!

By: Philtheone

Philtheone — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 20:15:13 +0000

How are you able to do this from Benidorm though?

By: Michael Stockley

Michael Stockley — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 20:09:14 +0000

£285 Benefits.
£200 – £300 via car booting and DVD sales.

By: geezer466

geezer466 — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 20:06:42 +0000

I smell a troll.

Don’t suppose you want to break that down then comrade?

Didn’t think so!!

By: Michael Stockley

Michael Stockley — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 19:16:57 +0000

That’s approximately what I get in Benefits but then I get off my backside and go out and double it with a bit of “cash in hand” work. I’ve got no sympathy for lazy dossers who just want to live on Benefits alone.

By: Harold

Harold — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 17:22:53 +0000

As someone who works in the public sector, originally under the tories and now in a unit thats probably going to be privatised, I believe reforms are needed.

If I am asked to pay more towards my pension, fine.I am only on 21k a year, not a massive wage.This whole mess we are in now is down to Gordon Brown and the Bankers,what angers me most is that the bankers are MOST to blame, but they have been let off the hook by a party that preaches fairness but has stuffed the working class;especially the white working class in some parts of the UK.

Before going on about public sector etc,its huge and varied,theres the police,army,civil service,NHS,councils and so on; its NOT all the same, just as much as the private sector isnt all the same.
To dichotomise each entity into 2 distinct homogenous units is facile and misleading.I would like to see a lot of quangos go as well,like the EHRC, NWRDA etc they offer dubious value for money.

But I agree reform is needed.I expect a wage freeze over the next 3 years, ok so be it.

I agree there a large number of dubious jobs,diversity and equality officers are no 1 for me.What I do is a tradeable skill in the private sector: Accounting.Ironically my job involves costing all of this by activity based modelling, LOL LOL LOL.

The problem is that the Fylde is very dependent on the public sector, nail that and the Fylde goes tits up, although relocation from London is one way as well as the use of shared services (my department), to reduce costs.

My missus works in the dole office,a lot of these people are on 18 month contracts and will go anyway, without pensions.

Despite working for the public sector ,I will never vote labour again.I thought that life was better under the tories,it was.This government wastes BILLIONS on private consultants who are total fuckwits instead of dealing with their own staff.I have met some of these idiots and the money they are on is obscene; again its down to bad government.I feel resentment at this as well.

By: Philtheone

Philtheone — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 16:37:19 +0000

Exactly right. This is what happens under Big Government rule.

When Big Government makes even Bigger mistake, all us little people have to pay the penalty.