From: charlesellson@btinternet.com   
      
   On Thu, 13 Jan 2022 13:09:16 +0000, Ian Goddard   
    wrote:   
      
   >On 12/01/2022 19:40, Peter Johnson wrote:   
   >> On Tue, 11 Jan 2022 22:25:33 +0000, cecilia  wrote:   
   >>   
   >>   
   >>>   
   >>> To amplify my previous statement - I was told was that "Civil,Servant"   
   >>> covered all Government employees from diplomats to postmen.  Nice to   
   >>> have half of that confirmed.   
   >>   
   >> Anyone who is employed by the government is a civil servant. To bring   
   >> politics into it, it's one of the reasons the Tories were/are so keen   
   >> on privatisations, to reduce the number of people on the government   
   >> payroll, with jobs for life and who can't be sacked very easily.   
   >>   
   >   
   >To take one example, BT employees weren't civil servants.  Amongst other   
   >things they had their own pension scheme, rather better than the Civil   
   >Service's in fact.   
   >   
   BT staff were ex British Telecommunications who were ex Post Office   
   Corporation who were ex GPO which was Civil Service. There were a few   
   years in between BT (1984) and Civil Service days (1969).   
      
   The Post Office continued the non-contributory Civil Service scheme   
   before changing to a contributory scheme in the early 1970s.   
      
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