Conservative-DUP Deal - £1bn the price for strong and stable government?

rustybin

I'd love it if Teachers had a proper pension scheme. Needs to get into line with the Private Sector.

Toko Black

I was going to argue the points of things like globalisation and modern telecommunications altering the basic dynamics of economic paradigm over the last century.
The rise of intellectual property and virtual, digital or abstract property and products etc.
..... but then since I thought it would be dismissed or ignored, I thought it just more 'economical' to just give the basic answer

domtheone

What.  1% (and upwards) employer contribution.

Think they're better off where they are

domtheone

Done

krish

Done what?

Pacifico

Well what has changed that it is now possible to fund day to day government spending by ever increasing borrowing and printing money. Every time that has been tried over the past 100 years it has been a disaster - but now, apparently, things are different....

Werewolfs

As regards pay rises for PS workers not going up. Have I got this wrong. Each year lots of people get a payrise. Not everyone admittedly. This pay rise adds to the taxes they pay. Not a tax increase but ups their overall payment. So does this not generate more money year on year in taxes to fund things like PS workers going up.

Bl4ckGryph0n

Oh dear oh dear. Another believers in the magic money tree.

Werewolfs

No being serious how much does this increase raise? Its not magic if someone gets a payrise of £500 a year  then they would be paying £100 more.

Bl4ckGryph0n

So civil servants are getting a pay rise, something that us tax payers (yeah yeah includes civil servants as well) pay for. No matter which way it gets spun. It is a cost to us.