Ship of state sinking and public pay must be cut

AT the risk of causing further annoyance to Nick Folley (Letters, November 13), the plain fact of the yawning gap of billions between government income and expenditure makes public sector pay cuts mandatory.

Protesting this is akin to demanding first-class treatment on the Titanic while the ship is sinking just because it isn’t “our fault” or “we didn’t benefit from the boom” (not true), or “we are already hit by a pension levy”.

Completely irrelevant. The ship of state is sinking under a mountain of debt and it is a question of recognising how desperate the situation is, whether we are in the public or private sector.