we should get an everyman from both "sides"chivJuly 1 2011, 17:17:43 UTC
Like all those sacked bankers who were fast tracked into teaching jobs?.
It will be interesting to hear from a few of them about how the conditions and pressures at the bank (with a full clip of office and company disciplinary measure) compared to controlling a class of kids, especially at some of the lower league schools (where their hands are not so much tied, as ripped off Jax-style when it comes to disciplining kids).
Personally I feel there are always private pension schemes available to anyone wanting to make the extra savings, but them I'm intending to be childless, single and retiring to a Dignitas clinic and in that sense don't have the challenges of having to provide for dependants.
1) Trident is the thing which keeps us on the UN security council with a veto. Without it, we're off. Given that we have a number of revenue generating overseas assets which without said veto we'd be in serious danger of losing (google Falkland Islands Oil as an example), trident not only pays for itself, but also indirectly generates revenue. Without it, we'd probably be paying teachers lower pensions.
2) Public Sector get paid orders of magnitude less, made up for in perks and pensions; Private sector get paid orders of magnitude more, but work in sweat shops etc)
Accroding to 2010 figures from the ONS, average wages in the public sector are £554 pw and £478pw in the private sector. The 'public sector workers get paid less' argument isn't true any more.
It may not seem so at first but I think this is linked to my post of a few weeks ago, after the referendum. We are stuck in the power play and its still all smoke and mirrors. I genuinely felt, for the first time in my lifetime, that after the expenses scandal the electorate would wake up and take charge of their government. Sadly we have been manoeuvred back into the pens and the whole thing has reverted to how it was decades ago. Divide and conquer, point and run the opposite way. The expenses scandal did revitalise public opinion but how quickly it was directed into tribal boundaries.
On the changes in pension from my POV I will be £100 a month down (that's the extra I will have to pay*) That's £1,200 a year that I won't have as disposable income. How many public sector workers do we have in Sheffield [high as a percentage I would expect] How many shopkeepers will go to the wall because of the money no longer manifesting as spending power [and for every £1 spent in a local economy a further 1.7 times that is spent by the spending of those people etc.]
{I don't mind paying more if more is needed, but the changes made several years ago put the pension scheme in profit. What the gov't seems to be wanting to do is raid the pot (again) and blame us for being greedy. I don't actually want to work until I am 67, pay in more AND get £severalk less over the projected final 25 years of my life! I WOULD like to see the MPs leading the way by sugegsting that THEIR pensions are slashed too... any takers there I wonder???}
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It will be interesting to hear from a few of them about how the conditions and pressures at the bank (with a full clip of office and company disciplinary measure) compared to controlling a class of kids, especially at some of the lower league schools (where their hands are not so much tied, as ripped off Jax-style when it comes to disciplining kids).
Personally I feel there are always private pension schemes available to anyone wanting to make the extra savings, but them I'm intending to be childless, single and retiring to a Dignitas clinic and in that sense don't have the challenges of having to provide for dependants.
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1) Trident is the thing which keeps us on the UN security council with a veto. Without it, we're off. Given that we have a number of revenue generating overseas assets which without said veto we'd be in serious danger of losing (google Falkland Islands Oil as an example), trident not only pays for itself, but also indirectly generates revenue. Without it, we'd probably be paying teachers lower pensions.
2) Public Sector get paid orders of magnitude less, made up for in perks and pensions; Private sector get paid orders of magnitude more, but work in sweat shops etc)
Accroding to 2010 figures from the ONS, average wages in the public sector are £554 pw and £478pw in the private sector. The 'public sector workers get paid less' argument isn't true any more.
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We are stuck in the power play and its still all smoke and mirrors. I genuinely felt, for the first time in my lifetime, that after the expenses scandal the electorate would wake up and take charge of their government. Sadly we have been manoeuvred back into the pens and the whole thing has reverted to how it was decades ago. Divide and conquer, point and run the opposite way. The expenses scandal did revitalise public opinion but how quickly it was directed into tribal boundaries.
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That's £1,200 a year that I won't have as disposable income.
How many public sector workers do we have in Sheffield [high as a percentage I would expect]
How many shopkeepers will go to the wall because of the money no longer manifesting as spending power [and for every £1 spent in a local economy a further 1.7 times that is spent by the spending of those people etc.]
{I don't mind paying more if more is needed, but the changes made several years ago put the pension scheme in profit. What the gov't seems to be wanting to do is raid the pot (again) and blame us for being greedy. I don't actually want to work until I am 67, pay in more AND get £severalk less over the projected final 25 years of my life! I WOULD like to see the MPs leading the way by sugegsting that THEIR pensions are slashed too... any takers there I wonder???}
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