Unison and Clarkson

lostinrates

Wheezy wrote: »

If someone would say on telly "Frankly I would have Wheezy shot. I would take him outside and execute him in front of his family" I'd be suing also.

I think he's a jerk and went too far for all good taste but I wouldn't be suing. I'd simply reply soemthing like ''Oh, I'm sure they will shoot me if they have any bullets over from you....I here every one wants a pop at you''.

Its really IMO, rather ridiculous to consider legal action against a twirp like that. An apology absolutely. AIUI it wasn't out of context from other things he was saying.

I think it rather does those campaining a diservice at this point. The more ''us and them'' they ake it the more other will too.

lostinrates

ILW wrote: »

Does anybody have a guesstimate at how much the taxpayer saved in wages not needing to be paid for the day?

I would suspect around 2 or 300 million.

I thought it was going to cost us money? My thoughts were I would let them keep striking and keep subtrating costs from th offer on the table. If we MADE oney my plan is scuppered.

martinjade

treliac wrote: »

No. Clarkson's a pr*tt.

But it's probably best to ignore him nevertheless.

He only said what the vast majority of the Country were thinking.

Have you seen the latest figures, over £12,000 public sector workers will retire on pensions of £100k per annum, and the average teacher's pension is £25k per annum.

A normal hard working individual would have to amass a total fund of over £500,000 to secure a £25,000 pa pension.

The Country cannot afford to subsidise the public sector workers pensions anymore, unless of course we want to end up like Greece.

treliac

martinjade wrote: »

the average teacher's pension is £25k per annum.

So what does the average teacher earn, to get that sort of a pension, then?

greggymagic

Ha Ha - the reaction to it is slightly oTT

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-15993549

The woman in this one likens it to Gadaffi.......

The whole 3:45 news piece is silly beyond belief.

He makes me laugh but is probably a burk

chucknorris

martinjade wrote: »

He only said what the vast majority of the Country were thinking.

Have you seen the latest figures, over £12,000 public sector workers will retire on pensions of £100k per annum, and the average teacher's pension is £25k per annum.

A normal hard working individual would have to amass a total fund of over £500,000 to secure a £25,000 pa pension.

The Country cannot afford to subsidise the public sector workers pensions anymore, unless of course we want to end up like Greece.

The top up pension scheme is quite good too. I've just bought an additional £5,600 of pension (index linked) for a salary sacrifice of £25,563 for 3 years (I’ll be 54 when the first payment is made next month). I'll get 40% tax relief on that.

chewmylegoff

"We had to accept the pension deal as offered, but we would like to point out to all of our members the much more important issue of the apology that Unison secured from the BBC for Jeremy Clarkson's actions."

And there was much rejoicing, for unison had won the day.

chewmylegoff

martinjade wrote: »

He only said what the vast majority of the Country were thinking.

Have you seen the latest figures, over £12,000 public sector workers will retire on pensions of £100k per annum, and the average teacher's pension is £25k per annum.

A normal hard working individual would have to amass a total fund of over £500,000 to secure a £25,000 pa pension.

The Country cannot afford to subsidise the public sector workers pensions anymore, unless of course we want to end up like Greece.

how about a relatively lazy person who didn't work that hard, but did enough to keep his job, and didn't really take the p!ss with sickies. what sort of pension pot would they need to secure a £25,000 pa pension?

martinjade

chucknorris wrote: »

The top up pension scheme is quite good too. I've just bought an additional £5,600 of pension (index linked) for a salary sacrifice of £25,563 for 3 years (I’ll be 54 when the first payment is made next month). I'll be able to claim 40% tax relief on that.

I guess you weren't on any picket line then

Well done, on taking advantage, I can't blame you, I just wish the rest of your "comrades" would wake up and realise how lucky they are.

Paddy2eyes

All this from Unison, the union who endorse their members standing outside a hospital with real coffins.