Let’s debunk the myths around public sector pay — everyone deserves to have a pay rise — but where is this money coming from?
For months we have pressured Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond to lift the 1 per cent cap on public sector pay — and it could well mean we are all getting a tax rise
LET’S debunk a myth over public sector pay.
It not true that those 5.4million workers have had nothing but a one per cent a year rise.
Until recently many got an automatic annual increase for moving up a grade. And almost all have enjoyed big increases in their personal tax allowance since 2010.
This is NOT to argue they aren’t due a decent hike with inflation at 2.9 per cent. But we borrow £1billion a week as it is. Where is this new money?
Cops and prison officers will be paid from existing funds. Fine. But every state worker wants a rise.
The Chancellor cannot borrow more without effectively giving up on our crippling deficit. Tax rises look grimly inevitable.
That means less in the pockets of 26.4million private sector workers - who already earn less, have shorter holidays, less job security and far worse pensions than those whose rises they will be funding.
How is that fair?
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Militant mob
THERESA May could offer the unions 50 per cent rises and they would strike for 51.
They and their Labour co-conspirators are hellbent on war against the Tory Government. These militants are even ready to break the law — and Labour, to its shame, will back them.
The shockingly thick Corbyn front-bencher Richard Burgon — incredibly, the Shadow JUSTICE Secretary — could not deny that yesterday. Instead he spewed out random left-wing clichés like a broken robot built in the 1970s.
It will be eye-opening for the young people of 2017 to experience the chaos and misery inevitable when the hard-left downs tools. And the Prime Minister must be up for the fight. If unions break the law, seize their assets.
This country is not governed by a leftie mob. God help us if it ever is.
Rebels' gamble
TORY rebels are playing with fire demanding endless amendments to the crucial Brexit Repeal Bill.
They are gambling that the PM will compromise, to have it sorted out before our leaving date in March 2019.
But what if she calls their bluff?
Brexit would still go ahead — except with our legal system in chaos.
The blame for that would fall on the Tory Remainers who sabotaged it.
Well done, Den
THE Sun extends a welcoming hand today to Labour MP Dennis Skinner for defying Jeremy Corbyn and backing the Tories.
It only took him 85 years to see sense.
Imagine our heartbreak, though, to see this noble man — with never a bad word to say about anyone — savaged by Corbynistas for his Brexit “disloyalty”.
How hurtful to call him a “scab”.
Chin up, comrade. We’re here for you.