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| Reluctant Hero |
Public Sector Pay FreezeThe Tories have devised a great way of getting Scots to hate them even more (if that is possible), even before they are in power:Announce a public sector pay freeze!! Given that Scotland apparently has a larger public sector workforce per head, than the rest of GB, how are they going to react to this news? I imagine the majority will be thankful and consider it a small price to pay to save their job!!! Just like they thought the poll tax was a good idea 
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8292680.stm |
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| Aventinian |
The Conservatives are doing this because they believe - correctly - it will be a vote winner: to be seen as responsible. Whilst back-of-an-envelope utopian economics might work with Scottish nationalists, they generally don't hold sway with sensible people. | ||||||||
| landg |
i work in the public sector. my colleagues and i are not happy to have a pay freeze but can undestand why and the rational. so, aye, i'm ok with it. glad to be working really with a good wage.
only a sabre-rattling leftie unison type is banging doors about this. we live in the real world, he doesnae. |
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| Reluctant Hero |
I don't think anyone is doubting that there will have to be some very harsh spending and tax decisions to be made.
However I would expect it to be a bit galling to be told by a multi-millionaire that you are not getting an uplift on your £20,000 salary this year because of the economic situation. But hey, "We are all in this together." |
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| Shagpile |
Is this the average now, mode, median, arithmetic mean??? Of Scots now? |
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| Holebender |
All Scots, or Scots in the public sector? | ||||||||
| landg |
i earn considerably more that 20,000 in the public sector, as does my partner. we do very well, are extremely fortunate, hope to keep our jobs. it is not galling at all that a multi-millionare is making these plans and will most likely be making these decisions in a few months. do you find it galling mr. salmond makes decisions that effects your finances despite his wealth? 'galling' 'multi-millionare' !!! socialist drivel crap!! makes me think you are or have been nrainwashed by colin fox and his shower of loonies. |
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| Reluctant Hero |
Nothing as scientific as that, just a figure plucked from the air!
No because Salmond, or for that matter McConnell, never stood there and spouted patronising rubbish like, "we are all in this together." |
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| landg |
ok. so if we, the british people are not all in this together who is not with us? |
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