It now looks certain that November 30 will see the biggest mass walk-out since the General Strike: several million public sector workers are threatening to stay away from work because they think that changes the Government proposes to make to their pensions are unfair and damaging. This is in spite of the fact that ministers’ revised offer – which promises that no one aged 50 or over today will have to work longer to receive their full pension – means that taxpayers who don’t work for the Government will have to stump up ever greater sums in order to ensure that public sector workers can enjoy far bigger pensions than their private sector counterparts.