Roland Perry wrote:

In message , at 12:33:50 on Mon,
12 Feb 2018, Roger Hayter remarked:

In general, like for like,public service employees have poorer pay
than the private sector. In part made up by a pension.

RUBBISH !.

The OECD totally disproved this. The days when NHS professional
staff were 'underpaid' and the pension was a compensation
vanished during 13 years of Nulabia when the NHS budget went
up from £37 Billion to £115 Billion, and a massive chunk of that
went towards pay rises.

I think the OECD figures inadequately account for skill levels in the
two sectors. At best they are speculative, and I don't think OECD is a
pro-nationalisation organisation.

The OECD is not political at all. It merely aggregates statistics
supplied by member states. And very professionally too.

There is no such thing as a non-political organisation.

There's always going to be office-politics, but objective statistical
analysis is not an impossibility.

Next you'll be telling me the BBC is politically biassed against the
Labour Party, for which I'll find you someone convinced they are biassed
against the Tories.

The fact that neither of our political parties (between whom it would
historically be hard to insert a cigarette paper) likes the BBC's
coverage does not mean that it is somehow capable of non-political
coverage of news.


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Roger Hayter