'Regional pay deal will put NHS staff at breaking point'

“Not quite sure what you are driving at, H_Trevorrow, but the bottom line is that business needs customers. If the customers are spending less because their pay is being cut, then it is hardly good for business. If everyone in an area is earning poor wages, then it is hardly going to encourage new businesses to spring up / move in, as the money isn't in the economy. Also you aren't going to attract quality staff, who would much rather do the same job for far more money elsewhere, hence the exodus of young people.”

“pps rewwoaahhaa.....remember the primary motivations for the journo and publicist is to venus trap interest, therfore circulation increases etc....not to give balanced information and impartially inform debate......{keep e-mailing those red arrow chuckers rewohaa}”

“Dear rewwooooowwwooo,
even in your desired kernow bys vyken nirvana it would still be better to go back to a 1950 , or before style of public service where a relatively good wage/standard of living and more importantly a secure pension ....where service was the key workers motivation was the stus quo. Your flawed thinking, old thing, is that you want to keep mainlining the debt poison {think on}.
The article above {remember that}is an example of popularist biased reporting designed to embolden the unwashed and washed in champers gov employess/ middle class{still think they are working class} to rage against the system from thier superfast broadband , on which they also enjoy sky etc.... and you and i are supposed to feel pity upon them...in order that more people click this page and buy thier pulpy inky offerings.
No i do not have sky!”

“Sadly, Josdave is correct. The economy in this part of the world relies on the public sector to underpin the seasonal (and somewhat unpredictable) income from tourism. Perhaps we should be pushing for private sector workers to get better pay rather than assuming that all public sector workers are overpaid? It is a scandal that most private sector jobs advertised in this part of the country seem to be "minimum wage" - what would we be paid if the minimum wage was scrapped? It seems to me that big business feels the need to compete with the far east, and in so doing we are converting our country into a "Sweat shop" economy, where anyone percieved as being paid more than the lowest of salaries is regarded as some kind of parasitic sponger. We need to stop the "Brain Drain" as our brightest young people migrate to other parts of the country to earn more money in a broader range of businesses - we won't do this by impoverishing people in the south west.”

“If you read my comment you would have seen that this lowering of wages in already low waged areas will mean less money going into the local economy and therefore less likelihood of new businesses starting up as you claimed to want. Whether you support the public sector workers or not, and clearly you have a bee in your bonnet against them, they are essential to the local economy and should be supported. Most are on quite low wages, regardless of what you get from the media and as a consequence do not get much of a pension and you would see them even worse off when they retire. Aren't you the humanitarian?”

“dear jobsdave..what you're implying is thaT the public sector needs to be super funded to keep our local economy going...lets extrapolate that and give all long term unemployed thier next 20 years social security up front instantly creating x thousand millionaiares...
Sadly you believe that spending on the gov gravy train more will get us out of our debt crisis.....spending needs desperately to be directed at growing small medium and sole trader businesses..not the super rich as cameroon has done or mollycodlingly state induced middleclass greed in the public sector....the sooner half wits stop lamenting the excessive wages on govgravytrain.lol and grasp this reality the better for one and all sweety capiche”

“Not only will it mean workers in a low wage area getting lower wages but there is the knock on effect that there will be less money spent in what already is a poor area. So the economy of the poor regions will suffer while the rich areas continue to prosper. When I hear of bankers giving up their bonuses and their lush lifestyle because their consciences are bothering them only then will I believe "we are all in this together". We didn't cause this recession but we are the ones paying the price.”

“Will this regional pay equally be used with MP's pay? ummmm let me guess.”

“Living off the taxpayer - what you mean living on social security benefits Old Jamaica?

No, I haven't and nor has Kinnock.”

“@omnivore23

dont you mean a lifetime of living off the taxpayer both in the UK and brussels. ive never done that i can assure you.
what about you?”