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la_marquise ([personal profile] la_marquise) wrote2009-12-09 05:25 pm
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They've got the same old show on my radio

Now it's official.
The public sector are paying for the bank bailout. 1% pay cap over the next two years. Because public sector workers -- mostly on relatively low pay to begin with -- are easy to punish. Even though this is not their mess.

[identity profile] ci5rod.livejournal.com 2009-12-10 12:58 am (UTC)(link)
Plus, as Vince Cable pointed out, the windfall tax on bankers has so many holes in it (apparently the LD front bench came up with half a dozen while they were still listening to Darling Alistair drone on) that the bankers aren't actually going to pay anything unless they have criminally incompetant tax accountants.