On Nov 30, 10:56*pm, Adam Lea wrote:
On 30/11/11 21:01, Len Wood wrote:





On Nov 30, 3:54 pm, "Eskimo *wrote:
Perfect weather for a strike and for picket line duty!
Sun, and temperature around 10C.

Great turnout at Exeter City Centre rally with just under 4000 union folk
and families/supporters on the rally with all unions represented including
mine - PROSPECTwww.prospect.org.uk. Many met Office colleagues were with
us too fighting for a fair *negotiated* pension settlement, not a government
imposed one. First strike in the Met Office for over 30 years.

Red Will :-)
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Good on you Will.

I heard some ****t on Radio 5 Live last night, someone from some
Institute of Economics if I remember rightly, say public sector
workers should not expect any special treatment because they have not
shown any improvement on productivity. Good lord! Quite the opposite.
We have a bit of a problem because we are livng longer. This is thanks
to improvements in medical science and medical care.
Well done NHS and medical research institutes.
And what about weather forecasting? Quite a few improvements here.
Well done UKMO on the sharp end, and other academic research
establishments.

We all know the problem we are in is due to an appalling gambling
culture in the financial industries, and shocking government from
Thatcher and Lawson, Blair and Brown, and now Cameron and Clegg
who see the public sector as the soft and easy target. Too difficult
to go after the bankers and tax evaders.

I dispair. If only the country was run by scientists and not career
politicians.

Some hope!

Len (not OT)

I would agree that it is abhorrent that those responsible for this
economic mess are not being held accountable for their actions, but how
exactly do you go after the bankers and tax evaders? If you try and
touch them all they have to do is up sticks and leave, and take their
wealth with them.

Having said that if public sector pension schemes are unsustainable in
the long term then they will have to come to an end at some point, as
with anything that is unsustainable.

But is it unsustainable? I mean how many central banks are now just
printing money out of thin air? "We've run out of money! Oh well we'll
just print some more. After all it's just figures and noughts on a
computer these days..."