What we do know is that the talks on public service pay finished at six in the morning. What we don’t know is the name of the nightclub. How do these talks work? The people who do the negotiating on our behalf, senior civil servants (and their political masters) will personally benefit the more professionally unsuccessful they are. Our tragedy is their triumph, which they naturally conceal beneath faces apparently stricken with grief at their failure to control appetites of the public service. Behind those woebegone expressions of dismay, their brains are tap-dancing with joy like Michael Flatley on crystal meth.
The negotiating teams meeting at noon probably sorted out the “talks” in seconds.
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