Why to the government see fit to take a 40% pay rise (on top of their free second home, massive expenses budget, enforced summer leave and already bulging pay packets oh and its on a sedentary lifestyle which they may retire at any time and still get their full pension when the time comes!)... But I digress, where was I oh yes 40% pay rise, when they won't allow a 1% pay rise (did I mention they get an annual pay rise and for the last 4 years the NHS has had a pay freeze!) And if you leave the fire service before you are 60 or fail the fitness tests (non sedentary lifestyle) you will have your pension cut by the amount of years you cant work! Having been a firefighter I know that at 60, I for one could not carry (at a walk) half the kit that they are expected to carry at a run! let alone carry someone down a ladder from a second storey window (and the population continues to get fatter!) so how is it fair to penalise someone for what nature does to everyone! MAKES THEM OLDER AND NOT SO FIT! If fire fighters only had to push paper round a desk, and swear at each other across a table (I don't mean the mess table here boys!) and shout" here here" together with the odd insulting snide comment, then yes fair enough, but its a physical job heavy dirty and sometimes dangerous! Back to the Ambulance service, the job is heavy, dirty and sometimes dangerous too and we are not worth a 1% pay rise?? Shame on you Government, you fail to keep promises you fail to support your troops, you sit in your comfy seats and bitch at each other, the most dangerous thing you do is pass a file! Perish the thought you might get a paper cut! And when your paper mountain catches fire YOU KNOW WHO WILL BE THERE! And when you have a heart attack from all that arguing and eating of rich fatty foods YOU KNOW WHO WILL BE THERE! (Oh and that last sentence, I WAS THERE! When one of you had an MI, and you asked my crewmate and I to use the trades entrance to your huge house, I know my place, I know I am worth more than to be treated like that, Tepic and I went in through the front door!
Fair Pay, Fair Pension for the work we do Mr Prime Minister!
