Let’s have referendum on benchmarking

REGARDING Lisbon, I think it is far more important to have a referendum on the benchmarking of average public sector pay to average private sector pay and the numbers of public workers as a percentage of private workers while guaranteeing that any perk or penalty applying to one sector also applies to the other.

Equality is a basic principle of primary law and I cannot think of a better way of establishing that principle.

If the result of such a referendum was Yes, it should have immediate effect bearing in mind that all revenue originates in the private sector.