Published: 14 Dec Labour abstention on pensions motion. Published: 12 Dec Why are the police intimidating me into not protesting? Farah Al-Nahda. Published: 7 Dec Jeremy Clarkson strike outburst: retailer claims DVD sales boost. Published: 5 Dec Jeremy Clarkson's One Show rant: complaints top 31, Peter Preston on press and broadcasting Heathrow during the strike — few queues, and even less fact-checking.
Published: 4 Dec Backlash against Jeremy Clarkson after he calls railway track suicides 'selfish'. Asked if striking unions would be penalised when talks resumed, the PMS said we would continue to have constructive talks with all unions. Asked whether we were suggesting the PCS were lying after they claimed considerably higher turnout figures, the PMS said we were basing our view on what departments were telling us, but clearly these were early days and we would provide more definitive figures later in the day.
Asked when talks would resume between Francis Maude and union bosses, the PMS said he believed there was a meeting scheduled for next week. So in reforming public sector pensions, taking into account the Hutton report, we were seeking to make the system fairer for taxpayers and public sector workers.
He added that at the end of this, public sector workers would continue to have very generous pension provisions with a defined benefit scheme. Asked why the Home Office had not prepared for emergency legislation when we had known the ruling had been deliberated for weeks, the PMS said Policing Minister, Nick Herbert, would be updating the House on this matter shortly and we would address the issue with the utmost urgency.
Asked whether the PM thought it fair that English students could have to pay considerably more to attend Scottish universities, the PMS said this was a product of devolution. He added we had come to the end of the 10 year civil list settlement and needed to look at how we approached the funding of the Royal Household in future. However, we had been clear that when national governments were implementing tough economic measures, EU spending also needed to be restrained.
Explore the topic Corporate information Government efficiency, transparency and accountability. Is this page useful? Maybe Yes this page is useful No this page is not useful. Thank you for your feedback. Report a problem with this page. What were you doing? What went wrong? Therefore, the political punch of action will be greater than the ballot results alone indicate. This will be particularly critical as the key political footballs that will be kicked around by the government on the day will be striker participation rates, how much disruption was caused and how many workplaces were closed.
The other political football to be played with concerns levels of public support. Clearly, all is still to play for in the coming weeks. Having majority public support on one's side is important because the dispute over pensions is essentially a political one. By contrast, strikes in the private sector are essentially economic where the point is to disrupt the employer's ability to make profit.
Public support is then one way of leveraging influence over the government, especially as a one-day strike is only a very short action. But public support is not the be all and end all. As far back as the ambulance workers' dispute of , it became clear that supportive public opinion on its own is necessary but not sufficient to win.
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