11th October 2020

 When I worked in the state-funded sector, my professor often said to me You’d do far better working in the private sector. At that time it was true. Business salaries were far higher and more prolific, but I stayed because of the university’s final-salary pension scheme. Best decision I ever made. Today, because of Covid, everything’s been turned on its head. Private businesses are suffering and dying, self-employed enterprises destroyed. But the state sector, the one where historically, socialist unions would regularly urge their workers to go on strike, is sitting pretty, paid securely by the tax payer. On average, as well as relative job security, you can today get 7% more wages working in the state sector. Fat-cat union leaders don’t know what to do! Should we all, then, start clapping for bar staff, waitresses and others struggling to enhance our lives? One thing’s for sure: without business taxes, the government will struggle to fund the NHS and the rest of the state sector, and we’ll all be up the creek without a paddle. The world has turned upside down.