"amid the icy wind blowing across Britain, that public sector workers are being offered any pay increase at all. Most private sector staff face the prospect of wage freezes or cuts and mass redundancies.
In a sane world, state employees would be obliged to share the pain. Instead, the Labour Government continues to lavish our money on its own payroll vote as if the Exchequer was bottomless, the public sector ring-fenced from the pain of recession.
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Through the past decade and more, Britain has thought itself prosperous. Tax revenues have poured into the public coffers.
On the strength of these, ministers, local authorities, quangos and institutions have mimicked lottery winners.
They have exercised enthusiastically what the 19th century American politician John Randolph called: 'That most delicious of all privileges - spending other people's money.'
Public sector salaries and perks have soared. Almost three-quarters of a million employees have been added to the State's payroll. All manner of new and mostly ridiculous jobs have been invented. Fresh rights have been conferred on some deserving people and many undeserving ones.
Lawyers and judges have assisted elected politicians to manage the bonanza, distributing largesse to themselves and victims of misfortune as if the public purse was a bottomless, charitable fund. "
I foresee problems ahead as private sector workers get fed-up of subsidising public sector shirkers.
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