Swings and roundabouts.

Public sector workers are now being seen as pampered "fat cats" because their pay rises are outstripping those in the private sector. How short memories are! For decades (and I speak as an ex-Civil Servant who has seen it and suffered) public sector pay has been deliberately depressed by successive governments, and they've had to watch those in the private sector streak ahead of them pay-wise. Well, what goes round, comes round, and I for one don't begrudge them their present more favourable status in the pay league.