Same old tricks from the Public Sector Pensions Commission
Today’s Public Sector Pensions Commission report is based on the politics of envy and a standard accounting trick to get some scary numbers.
Nigel Stanley
Website Nigel has been Head of Campaigns and Communications at the TUC since May 1997, and was the TUC’s first Parliamentary Officer from 1994 until his promotion.
Misplaced outrage over ‘gold-plated’ public sector pensions
The focus of today’s attacks are the “pay-as-you-go” (PAYG) public sector pensions run by central government (and not the Local Government scheme).
Will Vince’s red tape review be a paper tiger?
The new regulation that employer organisations most dislike are the new rules that will provide some protection for agency workers – but the Coalition lacks the scope to do this.
The Daily Mail betrays middle Britain on pensions
The Daily Mail likes to think it speaks for middle Britain, but too often it confuses the interests of the super-rich with those of middle income earners.
Exposing the Mail’s shoddy stats on pensions
Every household in Britain faces a bill of £47,000 to meet the cost of public pension liabilities says the Mail. Except of course they won’t. It’s meaningless.
Long-term decline in wage growth to blame for financial crisis
The financial crisis is due to a long-term decline in wages at the bottom and middle. These workers have borrowed more and saved less.
Top earners cost taxpayers £22bn in pension tax relief
Tax relief on pensions costs more than £36 billion pounds a year according to TUC analysis of Treasury figures. This is heavily skewed towards the well-off – not simply because they pay more into a pension but because the relieftest
