totalwar and Scud-u-like
Please read the above again a bit more carefully and you may notice that the 'little extra in your blue chit' is in fact buŁŁer all after the 'little extra' on your pay reductions. My betting is that by the time the income tax, food and accn, NI mafia have all carved up their slice of the pie you'll be left with mostly the same as you had before.
And as the gov't acknowledge that the cost of living has risen (inflation is not equal to zero after all), so your purchasing power has in fact a reduced- ie a PAY CUT in real terms.
Pure a simple economic skullduggery. Bet I know what would happen if our friends in the nice shiny red trucks got such a deal. Oh that's right, military can't strike.
I like the Sedgefield registration idea myself. Robbing sh!ts. At least you expected to get robbed by the other lot!