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Public sector wages are rising at twice the rate of private sector ones, new figures reveal. That’s a hike of 6.1% in the last three months to June compared to private sector increases of just 2.8% – if we’re getting any wage increases at all. And yet public sector productivity is falling behind, with many still working from home. Unemployment remains high with the private sector holding back on hiring people thanks to government tax rises. So why on earth are we subsidising the pampered public sector, working hard to pay the extra taxes to support those who are not working as hard?

The public sector is a ravenous monster that depends on the struggling private sector to pay its wages. Why do we put up with its looting of our wage packets when it’s so clearly more comfortably off than the rest of us? It’s thanks to deluded left-wing MPs and rapacious union leaders who wrongly think they are on the side of the angels, conspiring to paint us as capitalist proles worthy only of being ransacked.

This perverted vision of the economy was expressed last week by Labour MP Jonathan Brash who said we should be grateful to the public sector for supporting private business. “The state is one of the biggest procurers of the private sector,” he wrote. “It wouldn’t exist without taxpayers.”

Silly me, I thought the capitalist private sector had been thriving for centuries until government decided to pick its pockets to fund an ever growing public sector that now doles out benefits to those suffering from depression or anxiety. No longer just a safety net, it underwrites the lifestyle choices of the idle and fake victims.

The wrong-headed tweet has now been deleted but you get the idea it is us who should be grateful to the public sector for somehow supporting us. It ranks alongside Labour cabinet minister Pat MacFadden’s recent revelation that “Every meeting I have is, ‘Who can we tax in order to pay benefits to others’?”

With inflation running at close to 3% this year, average private sector pay rises will not keep up with prices. Yet the public sector is protected from this with above inflation pay increases. Top of the pile are first-year junior doctors receiving a staggering 59.4% base pay rise, while senior nurses received 62.1%. Yet healthcare productivity is 5.8% lower than in 2019.

Despite workers being shed in the private sector thanks to Labour’s business taxes, the civil service has increased its ranks from 418,000 to 550,000 between 2016 and 2025.

The least deserved pay rise is the 3.5% being offered across the board to civil servants despite evidence they are now less productive than before Covid. Trade unions have ensured that civil servants have the right to work mainly from home.

London government office occupancy has been estimated at just 27% thanks to WFH, while the Bank of England was recently exposed as allowing a thousand of its employees to work from abroad, sunning themselves on distant beaches.

Furthermore, the slump in public sector productivity has been estimated to cost the UK £80bn in lost output. Shocking figures from the Office for National Statistics now show that our total national debt is close to £3 trillion, thanks to our overly generous welfare bill and public sector wages and pensions. This means government paid out £7.7bn in debt interest alone for last month.

The public sector is a money devouring monster that just keeps on growing, especially under a spendthrift Labour government. The only way they can keep the leviathan satiated is by either borrowing, but clearly they are maxed out there, or coming to us for yet more.

You can be sure that Chancellor John Healey will have little choice but to dip into our pockets again this October in his first budget. Labour has failed to generate the growth needed to fairly fund the public sector and can only turn again and again to the much-diminished private sector for the money they desperately need. It cannot go on forever and every tax and regulation they bring in only makes the pool of money smaller.

We are fast becoming a poorer nation thanks to Labour greed and mismanagement. A radically new approach is needed from a brave and bold political party.