Category Archives: pro-State sector

Now then, this was never going to be comfortable issue for the BBC to tackle – perish the thought that State workers are living off the fat of the economic land, enjoying substantial salary benefits over their private sector colleagues with feather bedded pension provision to boot. So, what to do, thinks the State workers in the BBC? They invite on Carl Emmerson from the Institute of Fiscal Studies who does his very best to ameliorate all differences and makes it seem that those nice people working for the State don’t REALLY get more than those of us who work in the private sector. Pathetic stuff. How about inviting on a guest who would have argued that the State sector workers now need to see job losses, job cuts, sacrifices – just like their private sector colleagues have been doing for the past few years? The BBC is far from impartial when the topic becomes one of how much the State pays those who work for it. L’Etat? – c’est BBC!

Wonder if you read the statistic in The Times yesterday showing the shocking statistic that almost half of all new jobs created in the past decade under Labour have been the preserve of the State. The BBC Today tackled it this morning around 6.15am and I was amused to hear them use this as a rallying cry for preserving these jobs by NOT cutting State jobs! The idea that the State dominating employment may be a tad dangerous seems to have escaped our BBC friends.