'This is just rubbish. The differential between public sector pay and private sector pay has decreased. not increased since 2008.' Sorry David but you are wrong. Have a look at this quite informative article from the Guardian on the issue. In it there is a link to a YouTube video from the Office of National Statistics. About 5 mins 40 seconds into the video there is a chart which quite clearly shows the increase of public sector pay relative to the private sector. This doesn't fully take into account all benefits including pensions which if you did would put the public sector pay on average over 17% above private sector. http://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2012/mar/27/public-private-sector-pay 'Public sector workers include teachers, doctors, nurses, police, fire service etc. etc.  You're paying for skills and qualifications. ' Professions like doctors, nurses, fire fighters, police officer and teachers only make up 7% of the public sector payroll so their impact on the overall average is minimal but you are right that public sector workers do tend to have higher qualifications than private sector workers. However, a more detailed analysis of the data shows this isn't enough to account for the differential. Actually graduate level employees tend to get higher pay in the private sector but this doesn't tell the full story. I've seen several examples in recent years of people taking a salary cut to move to the public sector - the combination of improved pension entitlements and shorter hours makes it attractive. Ultimately the economy is dysfunctional if skills shortages are being created in the wealth generating sectors of the economy because people are moving to jobs in which they will make no net contribution to the tax take. Until the public sector makes the structural adjustment that the rest of the economy has made we are going to have huge problems dealing with the deficit and should expect decades, not years of service cuts.

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Topic	Date Posted	Posted By
Council cuts	03/12/14 11:09:00	Thomas Barry
Re:Council cuts	03/12/14 11:22:00	Michael Moran
Re:Council cuts	03/12/14 12:17:00	Ken Munn
Re:Re:Council cuts	03/12/14 12:21:00	John Connelly
Business rate	03/12/14 12:45:00	John Todd
Re:Business rate	03/12/14 13:34:00	John Connelly
Re:Council cuts	03/12/14 13:16:00	Adrian Irving
Re:Re:Council cuts	03/12/14 16:08:00	Andrew OSullivan
Re:Re:Re:Council cuts	03/12/14 16:32:00	David McLoughlin
Re:Re:Re:Re:Council cuts	04/12/14 09:47:00	Andrew OSullivan
Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Council cuts	04/12/14 10:06:00	David McLoughlin
Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Council cuts	04/12/14 13:00:00	Steve Taylor
Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Council cuts	05/12/14 08:19:00	Andrew OSullivan
Re:Re:Re:Council cuts	03/12/14 16:35:00	Richard Greenhough
Re:Re:Re:Re:Council cuts	03/12/14 16:44:00	Jeni Evans
Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Council cuts	03/12/14 17:25:00	Richard Greenhough
Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Council cuts	03/12/14 21:14:00	Steve Taylor
Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Council cuts	04/12/14 09:43:00	Richard Greenhough
Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Council cuts	04/12/14 14:03:00	Adam Beamish
Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Council cuts	05/12/14 08:50:00	Julian Pavey
Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Council cuts	05/12/14 09:21:00	Guy Lambert
Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Council cuts	05/12/14 10:44:00	Francis Rowe
Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Council cuts	05/12/14 13:00:00	David McLoughlin
LBH. Consultants	05/12/14 13:02:00	John Todd
Re:LBH. Consultants	05/12/14 13:29:00	Dave William
Re:Re:LBH. Consultants	05/12/14 14:10:00	Steve Taylor
Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Council cuts	05/12/14 13:56:00	Steve Taylor
Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Council cuts	05/12/14 14:24:00	Guy Lambert
Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Council cuts	05/12/14 19:45:00	Richard Greenhough
Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Council cuts	05/12/14 14:04:00	Steve Taylor
Re:Re:Council cuts	05/12/14 14:24:00	Steve Taylor
Re:Re:Re:Council cuts	05/12/14 14:31:00	John Connelly
Re:Re:Re:Re:Council cuts	05/12/14 14:37:00	Paul Allen

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