What is the problem with these changes to public sector pensions? The BBC article here http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-13800573 is informative.  For example:

‘All pension benefits that were earned before any reforms are introduced – including retirement ages and final salary benefits – will be protected, the government…

PMQ’s this week was an utter disaster for Milliband – he is really not having a good time of late, is he? Not that he was ever or will be up to the job of leader of the official opposition.

And of course the Ed Balls…

You see, Wilt is a bit of a simple bloke really. OK, he may have gone to Oxbridge and is Conservative in relation to his politics but his roots are very humble having been raised in a small terraced cottage with an outside loo and…

Oh boy – will these people never learn? Going on strike never works these days. Public sector finance and the overall UK budget are in a complete mess and we have public sector workers, teachers et al going out on strike to achieve what exactly?

The…

In the normal quiet backwater of Shropshire there is a sudden flurry of news.

First we had Sir Elton John in concert: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-shropshire-13749699 and very good he was too.

Meanwhile just down the road in Wellington there are concerns about some local Asian men sexually exploiting young girls, some under 16 years…

Yet again the GSCC have made a major fucking cock up and to add injury to insult (or vice versa) have imposed a inconceivably disproportionate sanction on a social worker registrant:  http://www.communitycare.co.uk/Articles/2011/06/13/117003/social-worker-guilty-of-misconduct-in-case-beset-by-delay.htm

It has taken the GSCC two years to conclude the case against Eric Rickerby…

Oh dear – Ed Balls is having a hard time. He of the surname reflecting something spherical and in the plural has been found out: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-13736406

It could not happen to a nicer bloke – he remains looking like an evil bastard, something akin to Damien…

Hello from North Wales – this my first post.

Wilt has been telling me off for not posting as he puts it ‘hitherto.’ He is very posh that Wilt fella – it must be his Oxbridge education. ‘Hitherto up here means something akin to shagging sheep, which despite common myth is…

And another success: http://www.communitycare.co.uk/Articles/2011/06/10/116976/baby-p-social-worker-to-receive-damages-from-the-sun.htm

See also here: http://www.communitycare.co.uk/Articles/2011/06/09/116977/baby-p-verdict-a-victory-for-social-workers.htm

It was Deidre Sanders of The Sun who was in 2009 identified as a keynote speaker for the GSCC 2009 Conference which was received with disbelief and anger by both the social care press and social care workers. In…

As predicted, Elizabeth Calleja of Leamington Spa, is accessing Regulator Watch above her normal average of three times per day to 4 – 5 times per day from her Android telephone. How not remarkable! She is so predictable, she is like clockwork and equally as…