[Livia]

I don't know how else people can get the attention of the government other than strike. I'm not a leftie, but I find myself agreeing with the strike. People say that private sector workers are worse off than public sector workers with their big pensions, like the public sector is some well-off private club than only a few people can join. Anyone can apply for a job in the public sector, if it was THAT good, more people would apply. People's pensions that they've paid into, that they've been promised and that they've been expecting are going to change because the government needs to save money. There are other, more lucrative ways to get money into the coffers of the country: tax the rich. If you earn more, you should pay more. The government's argument is that it will discourage rich people from investing here. I say that's rubbish. They don't want to tax the super-rich because they're the people that fund the policital parties. Raise the upper tax limit, cut foreign aid, stop propping up the doomed Euro, drag the troops out of Afghanistan and get our tax money back from the fat bankers we've been subsidising for so long... and leave people's pensions alone.