The thing which makes me laugh with these type of stories is their use of the words ‘New’ and ‘bombshell’ as if the potential future cost of public sector pensions has only just been realised. Add a £** for every person/home/family and ‘last night experts predicted’ lines and there’s the story. Irrespective of the politics of the story, the standard of journalism in the Express is pitiful. Really pitiful.
Andy’s division of public servants has broken down somewhat lately.
Nurses are busy getting degrees and neglecting elderly patients.
Police are OK if they stand on your street and mind their own business, but any signs of “snooping”, “persecuting motorists”, or performing “risk assessments”, and they’re next to Satan.
Firemen are no longer tabloid poster boys on account of industrial action.
All of the above (maybe nurses excepted) can achieve rehabilitation in the eyes of the Mail by dying horribly in the course of their duties.
This is a win win for the paper, one working class hero to parade to the nation, and one less gold plated pension to burden hard working taxpayers.
That leaves “our brave lads”. It’s instructive to visit them last and see whether the papers really treat them differently.
The Sun for once deserves an honourable mention, but how frequently do the Mail or Express feature stories about ordinary soldiers?
Will we see Littlejohn and Phillips embedded with the lads this christmas? Unlikely…
I suggest the coverage consists of very few parades, damn few medal ceremonies and a whole lot of funerals.
I rest my case on the poison of these publications.
If all of these figures they make up were true then I would be so deeply in debt they’d have to rig my corpse to an animatronic body suit so I could continue working my debt away 200 years after I’d died.
As there are probably less of us public sector workers than there are homes, and the state is the biggest employer in the country, then I’m quite looking forward to receiving my £700 bill through the post and helping the spread of wealth.
right, im now waiting for this £700 pension bill to appear in my post just like the ones for water and gas. not.
I take it they’re against pensions for Social Workers, Teachers and Indeterminate Whitehall Do-Gooder Desk Jockeys?
Not the pensions for Our Heroic Boys ™, Police, Firefighters and Nurses…
The thing which makes me laugh with these type of stories is their use of the words ‘New’ and ‘bombshell’ as if the potential future cost of public sector pensions has only just been realised. Add a £** for every person/home/family and ‘last night experts predicted’ lines and there’s the story. Irrespective of the politics of the story, the standard of journalism in the Express is pitiful. Really pitiful.
Andy’s division of public servants has broken down somewhat lately.
Nurses are busy getting degrees and neglecting elderly patients.
Police are OK if they stand on your street and mind their own business, but any signs of “snooping”, “persecuting motorists”, or performing “risk assessments”, and they’re next to Satan.
Firemen are no longer tabloid poster boys on account of industrial action.
All of the above (maybe nurses excepted) can achieve rehabilitation in the eyes of the Mail by dying horribly in the course of their duties.
This is a win win for the paper, one working class hero to parade to the nation, and one less gold plated pension to burden hard working taxpayers.
That leaves “our brave lads”. It’s instructive to visit them last and see whether the papers really treat them differently.
The Sun for once deserves an honourable mention, but how frequently do the Mail or Express feature stories about ordinary soldiers?
Will we see Littlejohn and Phillips embedded with the lads this christmas? Unlikely…
I suggest the coverage consists of very few parades, damn few medal ceremonies and a whole lot of funerals.
I rest my case on the poison of these publications.
If all of these figures they make up were true then I would be so deeply in debt they’d have to rig my corpse to an animatronic body suit so I could continue working my debt away 200 years after I’d died.
As there are probably less of us public sector workers than there are homes, and the state is the biggest employer in the country, then I’m quite looking forward to receiving my £700 bill through the post and helping the spread of wealth.