The government is admitting net borrowing will be £118bn in 2009/10 so does anyone really believe that those millions of votes would be put at risk in an election year for the sake of such a relatively tiny sum?
The idea is utterly ludicrous!!!!
A sense of perspective require methinks.
The government is borrowing massively to help make sure people can eat, keep warm and have a roof over their heads.
An ATCO earning 3 to 4 times the national average wage whinging about the detail of his/her pension - when it will still be more than some working families live on collectively - is not going to have the politicians rushing to "save" them.
Do you honestly think that in a midst of a deep recession, when thousands are losing their jobs every week, people will vote out a government because their flight to Dubai for a golfing weekend got cancelled? As has been hinted at here already, public sympathy for the Porsche-driving controller will not be high.