Whilst the award may look somewhat paltry, especially after what we have done over the last few weeks, it is somewhat better than the other Public Services are getting. Like the Gilchrist Girlies on their Red phalic extensions, We should realise that there is not a big pot of money that the Government of the day can dip into at any request. It's the tax payer who has to fund it and as we are tax payers, we should be grown up on the matter.
Yes, I believe we deserve a better pay rise after the OVERSTRETCH crap we're going through - My Unit, although small, is down by some 80% come next week! The tax payer does not deserve any more taxes though. A fine balancing act that any Government has to do, but I wish they'd realise that we cannot get them out of every sticky situation they get into, because we are not infinitely staffed.
Would love to see Gilchrist spend a couple of months in a Serviceman's role. He'd see what real work was like.
As far as I can see, we are getting a realistic rise (Unfortunately).