Well it’s almost time for our local council elections. This means it’s time to elect the people who really affect our day to day lives. The people we elect in these elections will decide things like when our rubbish is collected, when our recycling colections happen, and when our local services get overhauled. They will appoint the people who carry out these services and ensure they are carried out to a high standard. Admittedly this is an important job, however these same people who get to retire at 60, much earlier than people in the private sector. Then these same people take industrial action when they find they may have to retire at 65 with the rest of the working population, and the change would only affect people starting the job now and those who have only been there a short length of time.
Well pardon me for not feeling any sympathy for these people. What makes them think they have the God given right to retire before the rest of us? What makes them so certain they deserve a government pension which is linked to their final salary while other people’s pensions are crashing down around them, leaving them with too little in it to even retire at 65.
Government workers too get gold plated index linked pensions, so the money they get paid on retirement is tied to the stock market. If a civil servants pansion falls short, they get it made up from the budget which is supplied by the UK tax payers. Is it fair, that we pay pay their luxury, job security and first rate pension? No of course it’s not, but this is how things are.
Anyway when you put your cross in the box on the ballot paper come local election time, think of the hard up councilors, and council workers whose pensions need your support. If we dont support them, who will? The same goes for when Mr. Brown becomes leader of the Labour party and challenges Blair for the position of Supreme Overlord Of Great Britain, which Blair will have turned the PM’s job into by then if he gets his way. Please think of Mr. Brown, he needs your votes so he can have that huge pension, a 6 figure salary and free house in Central London, otherwise he may not be able to eke out a meagre existance on his standard ministeral salary, expense account and perks.
Right that’s my rant over with now,
Cheers
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