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  • Thrugelmir
    Thrugelmir Posts: 89,546 Forumite
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    Rheumatoid wrote: »
    Are you implying the public sector do not work hard? I did and have just retired. I have earned my final salary pension thank you.

    Have you ever been self employed? Ever been made redundant?

    What age did you receive your pension at?
  • Silvertabby
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    “ Are you implying the public sector do not work hard? I did and have just retired. I have earned my final salary pension thank you.
    Originally posted by Rheumatoid
    Thrugelmir wrote: »
    Have you ever been self employed? Ever been made redundant?

    What age did you receive your pension at?


    To be fair, there are different degrees of public sector employment - and my time as a LGPS administrator was a doddle in direct comparison with my prior 22 years in the Armed Forces.
  • german_keeper
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    Thrugelmir wrote: »
    Have you ever been self employed? Ever been made redundant?

    What age did you receive your pension at?

    This doesn't appear to me to answer the question asked. Nor do I see the relevance of the questions you are now asking to the question asked of you.

    Are you a politician?
  • BLB53
    BLB53 Posts: 1,583 Forumite
    There is absolutely zero chance of a Marxist government led by Corbyn winning this election. My best guess is they will get 200 seats and Cons 360 seats. Then we can get Brexit sorted and move on.
  • A._Badger
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    badmemory wrote: »
    Anyone who thinks any of this is going to happen before next year is out is living in cloud cuckoo land. These policies are going to take years & years to put into action. It has taken 3.5 years so far with Brexit & we are still nowhere near there thankfully. I suspect that the first items on the todo list will be renationalising utilities, which lets face it have been a total nightmare for a few years. Smart meters - well don't get me started. .

    These would be the pointless 'smart meters' (sic) being stuffed down the throats of the public by a virtue signalling government, would they? Not much of an advert for government attempting to direct business, is it?

    Anyone old enough to have suffered as a customer of Post Office telephones will know only too how nationalised broadband would work.
  • Paul_Herring
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    Silvertabby wrote: »
    To be fair, there are different degrees of public sector employment - and my time as a LGPS administrator was a doddle in direct comparison with my prior 22 years in the Armed Forces.

    I gather "MP" might be a public sector role available to some, sometime soon...
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  • badmemory
    badmemory Posts: 10,507 Forumite
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    Don't expect them to do much messing with pensions. Turkeys tend not to vote for Xmas!
  • Rheumatoid
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    Thrugelmir wrote: »
    Have you ever been self employed? Ever been made redundant?

    What age did you receive your pension at?

    What has that got to do with the issue of working hard? Bizarre response.
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  • mgdavid
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    Rheumatoid wrote: »
    What has that got to do with the issue of working hard? Bizarre response.


    Quite a lot, as it's all relative. Evasive response.
    The questions that get the best answers are the questions that give most detail....
  • Thrugelmir
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    german_keeper wrote: »
    This doesn't appear to me to answer the question asked. Nor do I see the relevance of the questions you are now asking to the question asked of you.

    Are you a politician?

    Certainly not. Though I have a wardrobe full of life's teeshirts to draw observations from.
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