if the state was small we could afford these nice jobs... but the state has become huge and employs vast numbers... whilst over in the private sector its minimum wage and zero hours contracts
If i was a public sector worker i'd also be moaning... I'd been promised something and then it gets taken away. However it can't go on. Public sector needs to come down towards private sector.
i dont see how are huge state is affordable when it its employees can retire at 60 on generous final salary schemes, whilst the rest of the population fund the state by working to 67+ and hoping their money purchase pension will be worth something.
the cost of the public sector is still a taboo that nobody wants to deal with and its ever deepening pension black hole
increasing the personal tax free allowance to help those on lower incomes
encouraging to save with more generous and flexible ISA limits
I think the current government have been the best of a bad bunch and agree some good common sense stuff has come in