You should really read the whole article published by Alice Miles in The Times today, but this little snippet interested me: -

“Incidentally, while I was researching this I came across this fact: that the median level of full-time earnings in the public sector (£476 a week in April 2005) is £64 higher than in the private sector (£412 a week), and the gap is widening. That is an extra £3,328 a year, along with generous pensions. I didn’t know that. Bear it in mind when you hear the moans of public-sector workers next week over their pay rises.”

At least we now know that the money Gordon Brown has ram-raided from the middle classes, particularly from their private pensions, is being well spent.