Sergei Gotsmanov

Brian Haw reprsented everything that makes Britain great. RIP

Come on Dune, I think what the Tories did to the mining communities was not something to be celebrated. These were good people with good values and the situation should have been handled less ruthlessly.

I am sure you would agree that numbers are easier to interpret.

I am not so sure that it is open to question. There is a political consensus that something has to be done.

Ed Milliband has been very quiet on this as well.

So you really cannot see that the pension system going forward is unaffordable? Sadly Prudence did not just raid our private sector pensions he never saved money for public sector pensions.

GDP is not take home pay.

No!

Why should private sector workers have to work to 67 and public sector workers work until they are 60. That is unfair and unjustifiable.

You miss the point. The private sector is the wealth creator.

Good on you. It is people like you that drive the economy.

Detention for you Thorpey. I was always told that bad language was for people who had poor vocabulary.

They rip the tax payer off because they are funded by the public sector and are not accountable enough. I cannot dispute your figures but I did read somewhere that virtually no teachers have ever been sacked for incompetence. Anyway you should spend your long holidays writing a book on your experiences because it would be a good read. Being a Daily Mail reader it is just the sort of thing that would interest; middle class family man teacher locked up for hooliganism. I am actually serious.

Its about job security in the public sector compared to the private sector.

Lybia - I hope you don't teach Geography.

So we sack our soldiers then so you can retire at 60? These guys are acting in your national interest.

how many teachers was it that have been sacked for not being good at their jobs?

Please do not lecture us on maths when we are advocating balancing the Nation's books.

Job security is quite an incentive - how many teachers have been sacked in the last 15 years for not being up to the job? How many people in the private sector would have kept their job for being a convicted football hooligan? (I acknowledge the fact that it was an absurdely political conviction)

So you expect company's to not look for tax loopholes? They save money, and pay shareholders who spend money and keep the economy rolling.

Yes I thought the BBC would. Gordon Brown raided private sector final salary pensions to pay for his bloated public sector client base.

The private sector pays for the public sector. Make the private sector flourish and everything clicks into place. However distasteful you find entrepreneurs and bankers, they fund everything. The unions contributed as much as Maggie did to the dismantling of the manufacturing base of the country.

Wales I think.

You seem to have forgotton to mention how to finance this all. You seem to have a Greek mentality; one day the bail outs will stop.