Mr Johnson says salaries for core public-sector workers, including teachers, nurses, police and the armed forces, cost £50 billion a year, which has a significant impact on the economy.
Those greedy, grasping public sector workers - looking after the sick, teaching the children, protecting the general public and risking life and limb - & expecting a living wage for it! The cheek of it. It's their fault the rate of inflation is rising, you know! All they're interested in is money, money, money... Everyone knows that nurses and teachers go into it just for the fat paycheck.
The Government is willing to increase teacher numbers to pay for more personalised learning, but only if pay rises remain at no more than 2 per cent.
"A settlement of 0.5 per cent above this level would equate to an additional £250 million cost pressure by 2010-11 - equivalent to one-to-one support for around 500,000 pupils," he said.
So, forget about keeping your heads above the water, teachers, you moaning, griping, kvetching whingers - you want to deprive the kids of their Tailored, Individual, One to One Personalised tuition that New Labour holds so dear. Selfish bastards.
An extra 0.5 per cent would equate to £100 a year, or £2 a week, before tax is deducted for a newly qualified teacher.
But Mr Johnson said: "It is essential that today's pay awards do not jeopardise tomorrow's jobs in the public sector and the general economy."
Teachers' pay, he said, has risen more than that of most other public sector workers under the Labour government.
So just be grateful you're not on the breadline like the below-minimum-wage postal workers or out of work altogether, hey?
Striiiiiiike....
* was going to call it 'Mr Johnson, you're a Johnson' but that would be childish.
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Inefficient public sector workers watch out: Johnson will be privatising you next. Oh, er....
Come on Anni, surely this makes you feel better about it? The stress of being paid £3200 a day for doing sod all takes it toll apparently.
Johnson keeps saying that he regrets having left school so early. The way he's going, he'll never be able to set foot in a school ever again.
Hazel Blears but slightly hairier.
What a twat.
Quink, he already wants to 'lend' private school teachers to state schools, to show us how it's done properly...
Murph, that made me laugh, especially Ken; 'the mayor said Mr Kiley had been "clearly drunk" at the interview and that the paper had tried to damage him...' Hilarious!
Yes, it's clearly a bind having all that money and a £2m Belgravia house as a retainer - much better to live in poverty.
Tim, right, he'd get a swift poke in the eye with my red marking pen, I can tell you. Not to mention the potential damage to be inflicted by my staple gun.
Violet - yes.
Ah, yes: Rowan Pelling did a piece on it in the Torygraph, which I think you might like. She was also very nice about the Crap Public Schools Association, which is another website of mine...
so their salaries have a significant impact on the economy, do they? and how about their work? does that not have an impact at all? wanker
Go Pelling! ;)
Rivergirlie - right, see how far they get scrapping these jobs to save some money.
Bowleserised - yes, we like her, she's alright for a posh girl.
Annie – in many ways she ain't that posh ;)
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