While they come for our pensions – bank bonuses are back with a bang...

The government is at war with public sector workers. We are told we need to accept a pay freeze – in reality a cut in living standards. We are told that we have to give up the pension rights we have won over many years – and for which we have paid! We are told that our services need to be cut – with jobs being slashed as a result.

All of these are supposedly necessary to help the country out of an economic mess. ‘We have to make these savings’ we are told ‘because there is no money to carry on as before.’ And this message is pumped out every day in the media as the government is further egged and by the Daily Mail, The Sun and the rest.

Yet there clearly is money in the economy – for some. More...

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6. Mandelson is still being paid £8,000-a-month by EU two years after quitting Brussels.. 
7. Goldman Sachs pay out $111million in bonuses despite taking billions in bailout money..