“Below here are the reasons why the politicians are laughing while on holiday. You are all having a go at each other and providing a divided society which puts the authorities in a much stronger position and allows them to take the pee with all the things they are getting away with. They will just sit back and watch the electorate crucify each other. The way forward is to firstly ignore the pratts who leave daft comments as, by and large, they are just sad people. Then ignore all those who are well off and not affected by what's going on around them. That should leave the public sector troops and the small businessman (and woman) and the rest of the working class who are mostly in desperate straits because of what's going on. Why don't all the public sector workers, excluding the ones at the top of the tree and causing this hurt, and all the businessmen and women, excluding the ones who are making loads out of dodgy deals with the council, all put their differences to one side, shake hands and then go forward as one unit. Then the authorities will start to worry. Many of the troops in the public sector are good hard working honest people, many of which do the kind of jobs those in the private sector would rather not do. Many of the business people and private sector workers are good hard working honest people who are being driven to desperation by the actions or lack of them by the politicians. So, it matters not who your boss is, you are all in the brown stuff together. Don't bicker amongst yourselves like little children, join forces and respect each other's vocations and stand firm against those who are making our lives a misery and ruining Plymouth. If you can't do that, the Iron Lady of Plymouth and the overpaid executives will have won...simple as that!”

“RussellJack
" plus the days sick that many take as extra its my right to have holidays and many on long term sick leave"
Would you care to validate that with hard statistics?”

“Orwell510, your latest comment suggest you are not very good at your job! ouch, sorry to cause any hurt.”

“"City 'could be brought to its knees' if thousands take industrial action"


Oh, come on!!”

“@Jannerbloke

I think you answered your own question”

“Again, I ask, please tell me what a strike, however long widespread or dramatic, will achieve?

Which ever way you look at it, the answer has to be nothing. None of the union websites can explain what the strikes are for or what difference they will make. Marches might be more spectacular and unify opposition but even well organised and supported ones like that against the Iraq war still leave governments unmoved.”

“@RussellJack

Thank you for yet another basic lesson in economics.

I recall you only came into existence in 1997”

“@Russelljack

I'll tell my wife she generates nothing. She'll be most impressed by your comment about the NHS.”

“And the last government's problem was they could not see all of the warning signs as the recession approached, which led to the Boom and Bust, the place we are at now and the reason for all the pain.

Public sector wages are paid from Taxes and rest assured it takes a lot of families or individuals to pay for someone in the Public sector, once you also take into account their pensions(higher in many cases than their Private sector equivalents) plus the days sick that many take as extra its my right to have holidays and many on long term sick leave.

A country cannot base its economy on Public Sector foundations, do you not understand this sector along with the likes of the NHS only spend money, they generate nothing and when like in this country after many years of letting people from within and from outside this country abuse the system it will break.

This is a fundamental problem with the Council house mentality of the average Liebour voter, along with Greece, Spain, Italy and Portugal etc are all founded on and it does and will always end in tears.”

“Oh P.S. - also scrap Trident, excessive foreign aid (to dictators), get out of the EU and tax bankers' bonuses at 80%. Goodnight!”