I am sitting at work this weekend putting together budgets for the next four years for a charity, no sign of any opportunity to include any cost of living increases. Wages have been frozen since April 2010, and are likely to remain so until at least March 2015.

Also having to look at which posts will have to be lost due to funding cuts.

And then looking at the number of service users that will lose support.

Of course everyone is in it together? Excpet for transport workers who have been awarded last month more than 4% increase - because they have the power to kick the rest of us in the teeth if they don't get there own way.

The final insult of course is that the charity's staff are paying much higher fares out out there diminishing wages.

This is an insult to the whole principle of trade-unionism - to protect the interests of the powerless. Thatcher should be proud of them - getting rich by kicking the shit out of the poor!

Oh well, thats de-stressed my a little bit, back to budgeting.