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What would happen if the whole Civil Service took a 10% pay cut?

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  • Graham_Devon
    Graham_Devon Posts: 58,560 Forumite
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    iltisman wrote: »
    Perhaps under the current ongoing collapse of the UK economy the minimum wage needs pruning a bit.

    Cus that will help the tax credits top up bill.
  • iltisman
    iltisman Posts: 2,589 Forumite
    ukcarper wrote: »
    Lets give people even less incentive to work
    Hunger is quite a good incentive.
  • ukcarper
    ukcarper Posts: 17,337 Forumite
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    iltisman wrote: »
    Hunger is quite a good incentive.

    That’s why they will have to resign and go on the dole
  • Kev09
    Kev09 Posts: 152 Forumite
    ILW wrote: »
    What would happen if the whole Civil Service took a 10% pay cut?

    they would still be overpaid!
  • Avina_Popp
    Avina_Popp Posts: 54 Forumite
    jenner wrote: »
    the civil service earn very low wages actually.

    my partner worked for the HMRC in the tax office. he worked in central london, had been there for 16 years and was on 22k. he was a single dad with 3 kids. he was a tax collector, not assessor. i think that was an abysmal wage. (obviously the assessors earned more, but still...)

    The assessors 'obviously' earned more. What's obvious about that?
  • Avina_Popp
    Avina_Popp Posts: 54 Forumite
    jenner wrote: »
    just saying that he wasnt some kid on one of his first jobs, he was supporting a family on those wages in central london.

    why did he do it, well he's changed jobs now, not earning much more though, but i suppose he did it because it was secure and it was all he knew. sometimes people stay in jobs because they havent got the confidence to go somewhere else, especially if they are supporting others, just in case its not as secure.

    i think that the image of the civil service that they're all raking it in, in flashy suits and taking long lunches needs to be challenged, hence my comment

    All very true.
  • Avina_Popp
    Avina_Popp Posts: 54 Forumite
    ooobedoo wrote: »
    Are all civil service on 100k?

    You must be a daily mail reader

    Who must be a daily mail (Daily Mail) reader?
  • iltisman
    iltisman Posts: 2,589 Forumite
    ukcarper wrote: »
    That’s why they will have to resign and go on the dole
    Err I think "dole" will have to go too, get with the program.
  • ukcarper
    ukcarper Posts: 17,337 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper
    But I can't afford to change my doors for steel ones and get iron bars on the windows
  • iltisman
    iltisman Posts: 2,589 Forumite
    ukcarper wrote: »
    But I can't afford to change my doors for steel ones and get iron bars on the windows
    Doors eee we wish we had doors,we live in t cardboard box on t motorway.
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