Yes, I first heard that "billable hours" joke (better told) about Victor Mishcon. The demand for billable hours no matter the justifiability for the client was a major reason I got out of central London.

Bozo, what the relevant public sector workers have been getting were the pensions their contracts required.   For years they have been working and paying on the basis of those contracts. Now the Con-Dems (all of the MPs in which are rich bastards with never a pensions worry in the world) want to tear up those contracts and substitute worse ones.

Even the dimmest of the wannabee accountants to whom I teach business law could figure out that but for the power to make law in Parliament that would be a repudiatory breach of contract.

Mr Backwards - buy some spectacles.