It's often said that many people in the public sector do jobs that those in the private sector don't want to do. Teachers, Nurses and Social workers come to mind here.
The proviso of doing these jobs is that they would be rewarded at the end with a decent pension. That is being now being threatened..
These people continually tell us it is a Vocation not a job.
With regards to cleaning, lavatory attendants, cooking, refuse collection and many other similar roles I think if you bother to look you will find that these were all roles and services that in the vast majority of cases were sold off to private enterprise during Labour's years in Government.
....Oh and some are saying that you have a secure job in the public sector. Has anyone noticed the redundancies that have been happening in the public sector over the past few months?
Firstly will you ever accept that redundancies in the public sector figured largely in Labour's plans had they won a fourth term in power. I wonder if you would have been so vocal then ?
Secondly there is only the slimmest margins between what the Coalition intend to reduce in the public sector budget against what Labour intended to do. You obviously forgot or maybe more likely chose to ignore the comment by Alistair Darling that the Labour cuts would be much deeper and wider than anything Mrs Thatcher ever did. Something to reflect on I think ?
Most "redundancies" are not Redundancies but are in effect going to result from not filling posts as they become vacant through natural wastage. Something already notified to the Trade Unions but seemingly not passed down to their members - unless of course you are are deliberately witholding this in order to make a disingenuous comment ?
OK some in the private sector have had a hard time but this is some kind of race to the bottom. Oh and I seem to remember that some companies taking 'pension holidays' during the times of plenty. Hmmm!
Again either disingenuous or more likely a demonstration of your lack of knowledge and basic research.
"Pension Holidays" came about because there is a maximum limit to how much money a member can be paid from their Pension. The booming economy inherited by Labour from the Conservatives (Chancellor Kenneth Clarke) meant that this amount would be exceeded and the pensions provider would have been in breach of the Law and Inland Revenue Regulations.
This could, and SHOULD have been altered when it became that clear that the economy was getting into trouble. During his entire "reign" Brown overestimated growth in every quarter, indeed it became a standing joke that whatever Brown forecast would fail to materialise and I am told on good authority that privately Inland Revenue officials ran their own book (bets in other words) on what the true figure would be.
Unfortunately Brown would neither recognise nor accept from others such as the IMF that the UK economy was headed for the rocks. I presume at this time Balls was too busy plotting and savaging those who were perceived as Brown's enemies to notice the massive train crash that the economy was to become.
Part of the role of the Chancellor of the Exchequer is to oversee the overall economy and the fact that there was to be a pension's crisis was being mooted in all corners. An intelligent Chancellor and one not twisted by Prime Ministerial ambition, nor blinded by an unwillingness to see what was happening to the economy, would have taken early action to prevent the situation we are now in. Instead Brown and Balls continued to privatise and borrow to spend on unaffordable schemes, and sell off our hospitals and other parts of the public sector/armed forces to the many PFI schemes which have resulted in Hospitals having brand new wards and buildings but no money with which to pay the 25/30 year lease and services costs - Hinchinbrooke anyone ? One of the first with others soon to come.
...The Tories view the public sector with disdain purely because it does make money (clue: it's not supposed to) but the jobs done by those in it are invaluable to society as a whole (doctors, teachers, nurses, social workers, firemen, police etc).
Again a totally unsubstantiated comment that completely fails to recognise the massive privatisation that has gone on within the public sector under Labour - hint PFI deals were supposed to make money for the Government but as usual Labour managed to **** that up along with everything else.
If as you suggest the Coalition Government treats these services with disdain then I am at a loss to understand why they have not only maintained but INCREASED the money being spent on these areas.
Knowing that you are a teacher I am becoming increasingly concerned at your complete inability to make a considered and balanced argument. Instead you simply regurgitate inaccurate and disingenuous leftist rubbish which is completely devoid of foundation or truth. Your claim of being £100 a month worse off in an earlier post was shown to be wildly inaccurate.
Part of the point of teaching is surely to educate young people to be able to reason for themselve, and in a debate be able produce a reasoned argument backed up by facts and proper research ? Maybe I am wrong ?