Yellow-pack pay means we’ll have to settle for a yellow-pack public service

IT seems there is a problem with public service pay.

Too many public servants, some would argue. Too highly paid, say others. It’s part of the reason we’re bankrupt, according to some of the theoreticians and commentators.

Nobody’s ever quite prepared to say where the too many public servants are. They’re not in the schools, nor the hospitals. There doesn’t appear to be too many in the fire brigade either, nor in all the places that look after our elderly people and our disabled people.