Strikes/spending cuts/protests

I would hate to see it happen. I clearly remember the time of the miners strike and it was very scary. I think level headed people, no matter how difficult we are finding things, have to realise that we have all had it too good for too long. My wish is that politicians would step out of their ivory towers and try to realise how hard it is for the general public. The petrol cost is rising, the cost of food is rising, so on and so on but they can still afford it whereas most of us are having to go without basics never mind the luxuries - what are luxuries anyway?! Living in a rural area I see so many situations where the councils waste money - they are all little 'Hitlers' building kingdoms. Let's do away with them and we might all be a bit better off.

I believe this can go in here as in my opinion it's related.

BBC News - Public service pension overhaul urged by Hutton report

Basically people in the public sector are going to have to work longer, for lower pensions. Sounds like they'll have a choice of either retiring at retirement age and (in the words of the article) live in poverty, or work into their 70's, maybe even their 80's, but still get a poor pension. I can see this leading to mass strikes personally. Alot of pensions are already worth naff all, and this will just make things worse. Apparently it'll be linked to average career earnings, rather than final salary pensions, and public sector workers will have to pay in even more than they do now, to get a pitiful pension.

I just came back from town and there was so many police about on every corner was wondering what was happening so i asked a street cleaner and he told me there is a march in protest of council job loses today and tomorrow .So here we go stevvy the unrest has started in our town