Tax Payers Subsidise Public Sector Pensions and Private Sector Wages.

As public sector unions gird their loins to strike on November 30th, the government has gone on the offensive. "Why should the poor taxpayer have to subsidise greedy public sector worker's pensions?" George Osbourne asked today. "They should concentrate on subsidising the private sector through the tax credit system because they refuse to pay a living wage to their workers instead." Our reporter asked why one was unfair while the other was quite acceptable, especially as public sector jobs were disappearing while private sector jobs, at least according to the government, were increasing in number. "They are completely different," the Chancellor bravely maintained. "On the one hand you have people working in the public sector who, by and large, support Labour, while, on the other side, you have wealthy mates of mine who quite rightly believe they have a right to to pay low wages that are subsidised by the taxpayer. I hope that clarifies the situation."