Government’s cynical policy of inequality

There’s a very simple question on many of our minds and it seems to be one that nobody is listening to: When will this Government recognise it cannot keep taking money from people’s pockets and expecting the economy to recover?

More importantly when will this Government recognise that the revenue-generation policies that it is now creating have only one purpose, and that is to make up the shortfall to allow it to keep the extended public sector in the lifestyle it has grown accustomed to. It is a simple but cynical policy.

Public servants have taken paycuts. However, the fact is that those at the top of the food chain, the middle to senior civil servants and senior public sector employees in general, and politicians and ministers in particular, even with paycuts, continue to earn more than their comparators across Europe.