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It seems like nothing is going to stop tomorrow's strikes, not even David Cameron's reassurances that the changes to the employment terms which the public service workers are about to suffer are quite fair. There's a reason why he thinks they're fair and they don't believe him.

Once again Private Eye produces the obvious statistic where the rest of the media don't seem to have noticed.

6,162,000 Number of public sector workers in the fields of civil servants, local government, NHS, the armed forces, teachers, police, firefighters, judicial and atomic workers who the government proposes should lose their final salary pension schemes and move to career-average schemes.

650 Number of public sector workers in the field of er... government (i.e. MPs) who the government is not proposing should lose their final salary pension schemes and move to career-average schemes.

Cameron's idea of fairness is obviously a millionaire's idea of fairness. Millionaires rarely think any kind of cut to their own conditions are fair.