One step forward ... two steps back!
All George has to do is abolish London Weighting Allowance. Why should folk get paid more just for working in the Capital? Many (most?) of the positions are taken by foreigners anyway.
Anyway, every cloud has a silver lining. If folk are going to start voting with their feet (more of a threat than a real possibility, of course), then perhaps we'll be seeing a few more openings for agency techs, most of whom aren't too fussy about where they work.
Meanwhile ... here's something else that hasn't yet been mentioned:- pensions. In short, Public Sector workers (time servers) get them,
Dark Side workers (lurkers?) don't.
@Barney: I hear you, Mate. I may have related before that I lived for a while in the most "ethnically diverse" ward* (sub-parish, cluster of terraced streets) in England. And what fun we had. Twenty odd languages and hardly a common one between us. And there was a pub stoically flying the Union Flag right in the middle of it all. Gypsy music going on into the small hours, and young ladies plying their trade in traditional style on the street corner. And a hand car wash at the other end (right next door to the cannabis factory). The mosque was in the same street as mine, but further down, next to the garage run by Iranians. The corner shop was run by a Palestinian bloke (in full desert
garb). He was married to a Polish woman. I wonder why?
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