I have not seen this on any news programme
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If you chase up the ITN News at 10 coverage you can seen the march being led by one of Teesside band The Beer Pigs with his trumpet. It was a very good day in London, and I'm not a teacher, a doctor, nor a civil servant. They were all so polite.
Ingleby_Flash
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I got caught up in a civil service protest in Cheltenham a good few years ago. They were very civil and the nearby streets were packed with parked up Porsche‘s and Range Rovers 
sweet_left_foot
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love a civil crevice, me like
r00fie1
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The "media" hope out-of-sight, out-of-mind - but ordinary peole arent stupid.
The elite thought they could ignore protests and demoralise the strikers. Its stuffed em up the arz and they cant ignore them. Behind the pantomime on Prime-ministers questions, behind Sunak there is much going on. They realise they cant bully everyone to work or starve them back to work.
Media wont advertise ordinary people winning.
It goes against the script.
The elite thought they could ignore protests and demoralise the strikers. Its stuffed em up the arz and they cant ignore them. Behind the pantomime on Prime-ministers questions, behind Sunak there is much going on. They realise they cant bully everyone to work or starve them back to work.
Media wont advertise ordinary people winning.
It goes against the script.
Ingleby_Flash
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autocorrect, obviously I edited it when I saw it, so I’m in complete denial I referred to a civil crevice 
NorthumberlandBoro
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I thought the doctors would at least be happy now that they can put more than £1m into their pension pots without paying additional tax.
WoodallServices
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They probably would be if they earned enough money to do it.
Randy
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Great band The Beer Pigs.
NorthumberlandBoro
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They do earn enough over their well paid careers.
Like many professions their initial salaries (junior doctors) are relatively modest, but that position does not last.
Jonny Ingbar
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To be fair to doctors and NHS staff, they contribute a significant chunk of their salary towards their pension.
newusername
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The politics of envy is never pretty.
NorthumberlandBoro
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I am part of a well paid profession myself so no envy, just adding a bit of realism to the debate.
Unravel_Morrison
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The ones who have been doing it 30 years will be.
They had a better deal than those starting now.
The Ruthsayer
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Chatting to a retired NHS consultant in the pub last night. He related that due to the complicated final salary pension structure, it was feasible for a consultant to end up with a tax bill that was higher than their salary.
Millbrook
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Exactly this and why they were retiring early.
It was a serious issue which needed sorting out when you consider the loss of expertise it was creating.