Your strikes today

[callmemadam]

Placard seen this morning:
'HAND'S OFF MY PENSION'

I do hope it wasn't written by a teacher.

Comments

[aellia]

I saw that,too!

[gwendraith]

*Snigger* ;) We are off to Stansted in a bit. Looking good there and flights are getting away on time. Not sure if arrivals are experiencing delays.

[rosathome]

There isn't a Tory MP called Mr Hand, is there?

[mimmimmim]

I must admit, I'm feeling a bit unsympathetic towards the strikers. I'm earning below the national average myself, no payrise this year... and then the MiL bleats on about how all these changes mean family members working in the NHS can't retire at 55! I can't retire until 67. So, not very sympathetic.

[callmemadam]

Modern myths: graduates earn above average salaries; people earn more in the private sector. A few years before he died my husband went to a university reunion. Of the class of '69 only two (including him) were still working! The ones with public sector jobs had all retired on comfortable pensions in their early fifties.

[anonymous]

I laughed right out when I read this!

[callmemadam]

:-)