Greedy Public Servants...

[Moley]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/new...n-800,000-council-workers-vote-to-strike.html

Not happy with our council tax bills going through the roof to pay for their gold-plated pensions (and reducing the services they provide in the process) council workers now want pay rises too.

 

[Moley]

They could always try tightening they old belt a little - like I've had to.

 

[Moley]

With the cost of living rocketing and wages not going up in line with inflation, something has to give.

Do you blame them for trying, or the government that has taken huge tax revenues, flushed billions in waste and beaurocracy, happily milked the hard worker and given to the shirker and put nothing away for difficult times ?

Just wanted to highlight that bit that you typed as I believe it directly corrolates to the public sector wages issue, in that they have spent billions in funding new public sector jobs that mean nothing "Nappies Co-ordinator", "Diversity Administrator" and all that rubbish. The local councils have done exactly the same and now are too bloated with jobs that shouldn't exist but which come with gold-plated pensions and union-backed wage demands.

Central and Local government has become too large under this Nu-Labour mob and it needs culling - not feeding with more cash.

 

[Moley]

Sadly the statistics (at least for central government) don't support your rant, there are fewer Civil Servants now than there were under the last Tory government.

Civil servants 1996 FTE: 494,000
Civil servants 2008 FTE: 490,000.

Oh cool - statistics. Got any for the difference in the cost for the 2 years please?

 

[Moley]

This forum is full of the most anti public sector workers I have ever met, so because we work in the public sector we shouldnt receive a decent pay rise or receive a decent pension?

This forum is full of the likes of me who are thoroughly fed up of seeing our taxes go up to fund public sector pensions, to the detriment of the services we receive.

Since Labour came into power and Gordon Brown shafted the pensions in this country, the trade unionised public sector workers have wielded an unbalanced amount of power in ensuring that their pensions are absolutely protected and the fact that I can't do the same is just tough?!

Not withstanding that its the likes of me thats seeing my council tax go through the roof and the service I get in return get worse and worse. When we asked the council to tell us where our money was going they produced a leaflet that showed larger and larger percentages of our tax going into council pension plans!

So basically they are robbing Peter (me) to pay Paul (you).

When thats no longer the case you'll get more sympathy from me and the likes of me.

 

[Moley]

And Public Sector workers don't pay council tax and have to put up with crap services?

Public sector workers are the ones giving the crap service! At least they are in a position to do something about it!

Sigh...

 

[Moley]

Moley enlighten us with some examples of the crap service you have experienced please.

My main complaint is this:

Reading Borough Council failed to get me and the wife on the Electoral Register when we moved here (and asked to be put on) but still managed to clobber us for council tax. Oh and tried to get us to pay tax that the previous tenants of this flat owed them.

Didn't get to vote in the last local elections cause of their mess-ups, have just last week had it confirmed that we are on the register at last!

As a result, my credit has for 6 months been crapola - ever tried getting credit when you're not even on the electoral register? Couldn't even get a phone contract for crying out loud.

Before you say it - yes I did go down to the offices to "discuss" with them. I suppose being fobbed off in person rather than on the phone was better...

This is more than enough to get me worked up, I'll stop now.