All In Favour?

[Englishman2010]

I haven't read all the comments, apologies if I repeat what anyone else has said.

The unions are scum and should be ashamed of themselves What planet are they on? Britain is broke, the old people are living longer and drawing their pensions for longer, the pot is empty and their pension rights have to change. Public sector workers really pee me off, they have the best pensions and they are heavily subsidized by me, the taxpayer. I don't have a taxpayer funded superannuation scheme, I have to make my own retirement provision, only I can't afford to pay much into it because I'm paying too much in tax to support the pensions of the lazy, public service, militant scum
If they go on strike they should all be sacked and replaced by one of the 2.6 million people on the dole

[Terpe]

............ Public sector workers really pee me off, they have the best pensions and they are heavily subsidized by me, the taxpayer. I don't have a taxpayer funded superannuation scheme, I have to make my own retirement provision, only I can't afford to pay much into it because I'm paying too much in tax to support the pensions of the lazy, public service, militant scum
If they go on strike they should all be sacked and replaced by one of the 2.6 million people on the dole

I'm sure you were having a bad day Ian.
But, sorry to say, even though I do not believe that this kind of strike is either needed or wanted at this time. I certainly cannot agree with the sweeping statements you made there about public sector workers.

Working in the public sector means working for the government.
Jobs in the public sector include:-

The Armed Forces (Army, Air Force, Navy)
The Emergency Services (Ambulance, Fire, Police)
Teaching and Education
NHS (doctors, nurses and medical staff etc)
Her Majesty's Prison Service
Civil Service

Public sector employment totals just over 6 million. More than 20% of the total UK workforce.

You know that it's just not possible to 'pick and choose' which areas we want to support with our taxes and which areas we do not want to support with our taxes.
The idea is that the pot of money is there for ALL.

How many billions of our taxes are being stolen by fraud and deception.

As I say, I'm not supporting this specific industrial action, but I can understand the root causes.

I don't accept the view that public sector workers should be disparaged for doing the jobs that are wanted, needed and highly valued simply because they are funded by government.
Governments don't have any income other than from taxes.

[joebloggs]

Governments don't have any income other than from taxes.

probably not any more as the family sliver had been sold off long ago under thatcher,

maybe its time the gov did find other ways, if the co op bank can makes £100s of millions of profit, why cant one owned the tax payer? what about the big banks, Barclay made a profit of £5 billion in the first 9 months of this year. use that money to build 100,000s of houses that working people can afford to rent.