I emailed them asking what would happen to public sector pay/ pension etc as I am a worker. I decided I would make an informed choice and really use my vote.
this is the response:
Please do rest assured that Liberal Democrats have the greatest respect for public sector workers. We?re not, furthermore, talking about reneging on deals which have already been agreed with public sector workers; that would be deeply unfair. We have no desire to attack public sector workers or their pay and conditions; on the contrary, we know how much Britain depends on them. We do feel, though, that at a time when the private sector have seen real-term freezes or pay cuts, there will have to be public sector restraint too. Ultimately, we also prefer pay restraint as a means of keeping people in jobs. All parties accept that we have to be restrained on public sector pay rises, therefore ? but we want to do this in the fairest way possible.
Our planned cap of £400 on pay rises would, we think, do this. By contrast with Labour?s plans to cap pay rises at 1%, this means that the lowest-paid workers would get the largest percentage rise ? anyone in the public sector earning less than £40,000 a year would get a better deal under our plan than Labour?s. Similarly, with public sector pensions, we have been keen to point out that reform is necessary because of unfairness within the public sector as well as for any other reasons ? currently, lower-paid workers lose out by comparison with their higher-paid counterparts
I also sent the same email to the conservaties and got a pretty vague response- but was told a pay freeze for a year.
The libdems have actually pleasently suprised me (you can see of my previous posts I was very anti lib dem unril recently. I am quite happy with the response and am actually on the verge of voting lib dem not tory