Politically motivated certainly, but entirely mis-directed in its attribution to teachers.

Our calamitous coalition led by u-turn prone Prime Minister "Calm Down" Cameron and the Civil Service minister, Francis Maude have been inaccurately quoting the Hutton report as stating that public sector pensions are unaffordable.

Former Labour minister Lord Hutton has acknowledged that public pensions are affordable in the long run, a view supported by the independent Institute for Fiscal Studies, because their cost is set to fall in relation to the size of the economy from 1.8 per cent of national income to 1.4 per cent

So therefore, politically motivated ? - certainly by this short-term dogma driven coalition.

Even its Treasury minister, Justine Greening, has studiously avoided using the term unaffordable, preferring the term "untenable". The term untenable as applied to public pensions is used in a comparative sense with the depleted private sector provisions.

What is shameful is how private sector pension schemes have been diminished so. Equally shameful is how this fallacious argument about the difference in private vs. public sector benefits has been foisted into the public domain for purely political reasons.

I believe it to be entirely logical that any reasonable public sector worker would seek to avoid seeing their pension provision being unnecessarily placed on a similarly slimy slope that could only finish in being a race to the bottom.