"Axe 'must fall on unfair gold-plated public sector pensions'": UK Daily Mail

[WinkyDink]

"Gold-plated public sector pensions must be slashed because they are unaffordable and unfair, an independent investigation will warn next week.
A hard-hitting report, commissioned by the Government, is expected to say that the crucial link to ‘final salary’ should be axed as a matter of urgency.
Rather than pay a percentage of a state worker’s salary on retirement, it must be replaced with a cheaper alternative that places less burden on taxpayers.
The attack on state sector pensions will trigger fury among unions."

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1363196/Axe-fall-unfair-gold-plated-public-sector-pensions.html#ixzz1FlBe1zIo
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Co-ordinated multi-national scheme.

[WCGreen]

1. Even when the people are paying for them....

[Lasher]

2. Proof that their assholes conspire with our assholes.

This is a coordinated assault on working people everywhere. Same shit, different continent.

[Hannah Bell]

3. "Co-ordinated multi-national scheme" -- for sure, coordinated global attack on the working class,

down to the talking points.

[stockholmer]

4. 'gold-plated' , is such rubbish, even the article itself refutes this

"The average pension enjoyed by a retired state worker is £7,841 a year, although many get far more than this amount, according to the interim report."

That works out to around $1000 US dollars a month.

[TheMightyFavog]

5. This is the Daily Mail we're taling about...

Keep in mind, during the 30s this paper was in bed with Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascists and was rah-rahing Hitler and Mussolini almost right up to the point where the UK declared war.

[Jazzgirl]

6. This definitely an organized attack being coordinated all over

the world. It is amazing all this shit is breaking everywhere at the same time. That must have been what the last Bilderberg meeting was about.

[highplainsdem]

7. Class warfare against the middle class and the poor, on a global scale.

[xchrom]

8. ...

:mad:

[jody]

9. Just more class warfare between private sector and public sector workers. n/t

[eppur_se_muova]

10. Surprisingly, NOT a Murdoch rag. To quote from Wikipedia, however, ...

"Under Dacre, the Mail has a reputation for a conservative editorial stance on topics such as immigration, working women and teenage sex. This has led Julie Burchill to nickname it "The Daily Hate".<11> Science writer Ben Goldacre of The Guardian has described the paper as "the home of the scare story",<12> and it has been accused by Johann Hari of The Independent of causing the deaths of children, because of "faith-based thinking" in its reporting of the MMR vaccine controversy.<13> Nick Davies, writing in New Statesman, accuses the paper of routine inaccuracy in reporting issues related to immigration, quoting a former reporter as saying: "you knew that the headline had been written before the story came in and your job was to make the facts fit".<14>"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daily_Mail




Sounds like the same methodology as Murdoch.

[suffragette]

11. Yep. "gold-plated public sector pensions' & "Cadillac health plans"

are clear examples of using language to drive a wedge between voters who have more in common economically than they do with the CEO's who have been raking in profits, bonuses and benefits, much of it at these voters' expense.

And absolutely coordinated:
http://upload.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x8769829
http://www.naomiklein.org/articles/2010/06/sticking-public-bill-bankers-crisis

[Rex]

12. Well you know how those teachers make over a 100k a year!

It hurts the ultra rich when the working poor makes more than a penny a day! HURTS!

[LeftishBrit]

13. This is the Daily Mail. A RW rag that hates the British public sector on principle.