It’s all very well to moan about ‘public sector pensions’ but among the pen pushers, bureaucrats, quango-rodents and clipboard jobsworths you’ll also find retired firemen who’ve put their lives on the line to save others, policemen who’ve had to confront gangsters and terrorists (like my grandfather who died after one week’s pension, but my granny needed something to live on), scientists who’ve done great work in our universities, ambulance paramedics who’ve tried to resuscitate people in the middle of terror attacks, air and sea rescue crews who’ve slid down a rope from a helicopter onto a burning or sinking ship to save lives, and I’m sure many other people who do important and even heroic work without ever getting or seeking publicity or huge failure bonusses.
Is it really fair to generalise so much about ‘public sector pensions’?
Doesn't my mum deserve a pension, seeing as she turned down a great career in accountacy and tax law, where she'd have earned a hell of a lot of money, to do what she loves, which is teaching young people?
Is it really fair to generalise so much about ‘public sector pensions’?
Doesn't my mum deserve a pension, seeing as she turned down a great career in accountacy and tax law, where she'd have earned a hell of a lot of money, to do what she loves, which is teaching young people?
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