Friday 25 November 2011

If Caesar were alive, you'd be chained to an oar


Public sector unions will be on strike on Wednesday. The cause of the dispute is pensions. The unions think that if they forego a day's pay, they will secure a post retirement income that will be multiples of what the rest of us will receive.

The strike reminds me of a latin proverb that would neatly resolve the matter:

"Caesar si viveret, ad remum dareris"

Roughly translated; "If Caesar were alive, you'd be chained to an oar."

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

Ouch

droog said...

The unions will give it a go if it's all the same to Caesar. And ever since he contracted a case of the knives Caesar doesn't care that much about things.

Richard said...

I preferred this post before the edit. It's not often I get a bit of schoolgirl Latin in my bloglist. It gave my front page a bit of class. Let's hope this little bit of pointlessness doesn't turn into bellum omnium contra omnes.

Anonymous said...

It is a great image; civil servants lashed to an oar.

Anonymous said...

The border service will be on strike. The borders will be open - so what is the difference.

davidb said...

Mmmm. They were sold a pup by successive governments. Told if they paid a high proportion of their salaries into a pension fund they'd get a good pension at the end of their working lives. I am extremely sympathetic as they have been lied too. I suggest that they bite the bullet and learn the lesson that we who work for ourselves learned long ago. You can tell a politician is lying if you see his lips move. Labour or Conservative. Dont ever trust anything any of the bastards ever say.

Anonymous said...

While public sector pensions might be considerably better than most private sector pensions that is primarily down to the fact that private pensions have been slashed by the governments zero interest rate policy. The governments policy is to level pensions to the lowest common denominator. All this does is create substantial problems in terms of pension provision in the decades to come. Though since this government will be gone it is not their problem.