Many striking Doctors were GPs, who earn on average £131k pa and have an average pension of £68k. About 5% of GPs in busy practices earn £200k+ and when they retire have pensions of over £100k pa. About 80% of the cost of their pensions is paid by tax payers.
The last Government made a complete mess in renegotiating GPs contracts which saw them doubling, which was a far bigger increase than virtually any other worker. So no I don't agree with GPs striking where they are being made to contribute more.
Personally, I think all civil service pensions should be totally employer / employee funded into a privately administered scheme, so each employee has a pension fund. This is then on the same basis as most of the private sector and self-employed. This will also mean that you will get a pension, because when this country goes bankrupt between 2015 and 2020 unfunded civil service pensions, I'm sure will be one of the first areas to be severely curtailed as part of making the country solvent again under IMF direction.
We can all pick groups of workers and complain they are paid so much and my job is so much more important, so I should get paid lots more. Simple question, is there a massive shortage of doctors? No, then pay is sufficient to fill most vacancies. Tube drivers have priced themselves out of the market, which is why in the next 5 years they are being replaced with automated trains, good riddance too them as far as I'm concerned.
We have a vast, bloated, inefficient, wealth sapping public sector that needs to be vastly curtailed. Personally, I would cut all budgets with the exception of defense and the police by an immediate 50% to the sort of GDP % levels they were before McRuin spayed tax payers money around like slurry from a tanker, hoping some would stick to the wall to improve things, where we all know, most of it has gone down the drain. With the money saved I would give every worker in the country a massive pay rise, yes its very easy, it is called a tax cut.
UK PLC is rapidly losing income and ground too its much more efficient competitors like China, India, Eastern European, South America etc, until we cut public services back to the historical level of about 32% or less as 25% is about optimum for a thriving private sector, there will be no significant growth in the UK economy.
The Tiger and BRIC countries are expecting Western societies especially Western Europe to become 3rd world countries in terms of wealth in the next 50 years, personally, I also convinced of this, unless there is a dramatic change of political direction. Vote UKIP.
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